We’ve already seen a few instances in recent weeks: The Austin, Tex., shooting, which appears motivated by anger over the war; the attempted attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., which I don’t think was planned before but was seemingly triggered by the death of the attacker’s brothers, who were reportedly Hezbollah fighters; the Old Dominion (University in Virginia) shooting; and the pro-ISIS guys at Gracie Mansion in New York. Were they also spurred by the war with Iran, or was there a different set of motivations driving them …? We have four different data points here. They’re all different in their own sort of orientation, and it’s hard to come up with these big judgments about where the trend line is here.








