After the Buffalo shooting there seemed to be more people noticing and questioning why it was always totally sympathetic, unthreatening soft-targets that were being shot up. No one was shooting up a Fortune500 company hq or a high-end country club or some bar association meeting or a banker's wedding. More people were finding it statistically improbable that the disaffected very rarely attack "the system" itself.

...and then some nut, who seems to have done everything possible beforehand to get caught, goes after Kavanaugh. One of the system's very own gatekeepers. Someone much of the country, certainly the media, isn't naturally sympathetic towards.