Given the timing this is likely a late night reconnaissance of the lay-of-the-land as preparation for a possible/predicted confrontation:

The conscious plan would be to confront her and talk her out of aborting ‘his/our child’, using the gun as a threat if all else failed. Of course, if she failed to comply with his wishes he would follow through with his unconscious desire to shoot her for not being a proper compliant receptacle for his manly seed.

The ‘clip’, actually the more correct term is magazine, full of cartridges of a caliber different from the gun carried was a mistake. He has a lot of guns and the handgun magazines pretty much look alike and are easy to mix up.

This is exactly the sort of mistake that would be caught in a dress-rehearsal. Which is why he does this sort of thing.

Minnesota State legislator Tom Hackbarth tells cops: I wasn’t trying to shoot up that abortion clinic; I was stalking my online girlfriend.

I also like this quote from Hackbarth:

“I was not a jealous boyfriend,” he said. “I was just trying to check up on her.”

Oh, the cluelessness.

What Was Republican Rep Hackbarth Doing in the Planned Parenthood lot with Binoculars and Loaded Gun?

What does it matter? He’s a Republican, so Republican standards should apply to him. According to those, he is already proven guilty by the fact the police suspected him, and has thus lost all of his civil rights. He can now get brow-beaten into confessing the crime (whatever it is) or some other crime or crimes – the DA can manipulate the evidence to their heart’s desire – and the judge should then throw the book at him. Alternately, he could just get sent off to some torture-happy place in Africa for a bit of much-enhanced interrogation. Any kind of parole should be denied, and if he ever gets out of jail, they should put him on the sex offender register – for the children! And if they weren’t the most hypocritical people on the planet to begin with, his party colleagues would have no right to even begin complaining about any of it.