But hey, all the Progs have to run with is this - "According to his profile on a dating site Harper-Mercer is 'mixed race,' a 'conservative Republican,' 'not religious' and lives with his mother - and appears to have a large family from Britain."
So, case close, Republicans are to blame.
Yep, there's a race - by both sides - to determine the political persuasion of perps even before the blood has set as a matter of confirmation bias. Sometimes I do it too. Most times I don't bother because knowing only answers part of the question.
I see a lot more people wakening to the reality that these things are triggered by mental state, and (a few) are slowly coming to terms with the adjunct reality that these aren't so much crimes of passion as they are crimes of irrationality-based impotent rage. Every one of these mass killers was - by any objective standard - a loser, a misfit, and a POS.
It wasn't a matter of conformity in a cookie-cutter fashion but they didn't fit in to their surrounding culture. They don't eschew or reject their culture outright but they typically drift to the aberrant edges of it. I'm betting that the more we learn of this one (just like all the last ones) the more we will find out just how much of a misfit he was and how much enabling of his antisocial behavior he was allowed to get away with by his mother. Of course we hear from his absentee father that he is "as shocked as anyone" to hear that his spawn is a mass-murderer.
I find it ironic that the day before yesterday (before the shooting) I had a conversation with a coworker that was eerily prescient. She was recounting a different conversation with a different coworker about a hypothetical situation where the abduction of a security badge holder could result in admittance to our high-security offices. My present job has me located in the same offices as our operations center so I have to pass through four layers of security (not to mention the cardkey monitored parking gate) in order get to my desk.
Her hypothetical had her being held hostage and her kidnapper forcing her to assist him in order to gain access. She asks rhetorically if she could bring herself to complying with his demands, knowing that it would result in the execution of her coworkers. I had to suppress the impulse to chuckle as I would reach to pat the gun that is secured in my jacket. The gun that I am not supposed to have because company rules prohibit them.
The left is determined not to see the effects of their assault on culture and the mental instability they are fostering as a result of that assault. They refuse to see how coddling malcontents can't help but sow the seeds for tragedy. And I am determined not to be a victim of their insanity.