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Latest is that the shooter was a registered republican, so shit is going all different shades of weird vs what everyone was assuming about what the motive was probably gonna be.
I had a feeling something like this would happen. The right jumped on the "it was a radical leftist that did it!" almost instantly. Democrats made the same mistake with the Vegas shooter, assuming it was done by a conservative nutjob, but actually just an apolitical psychopath.
I've learned to never assume political affiliation when I hear about these things happening because someone on the right is just as likely to be the perp as someone on the left for the same reason.
The not only jumped on it, but "identified" the shooter as "Mark Violets, a known Antifa extremist!!!111".