You are not understanding 'agarden'. He is not super-imposing his beliefs, he's stating the fact that LaDue had the almost certain capacity to enact his stated

You are not understanding 'agarden'. He is not super-imposing his beliefs, he's stating the fact that LaDue had the almost certain capacity to enact his stated intent. By contrast, someone can 'want' to be a rock star, but even with the best application of effort they only have a small chance of achieving that goal. > Jumping to the conclusion that his teenage obsession's > paraphernalia indicates that he would have done this is > silly. There's no way to know if there is ever any > correlation between the two. I think you are confusing "correlation" with "certainty". I'd hope we agree that a teenager found with a storage locker full of explosives and an express desire to kill lots of people is more likely to be involved in mass violence than a teenager selected at random? This is a correlation. One can question how strong the correlation is, and whether there might be stronger correlations (what would these be?) but it is false to say that "There's no way to know if there is ever any correlation between the two."