So how long before we find out that

Possible, but unlikely.

The facts are becoming increasingly clear that he was either a closeted gay man or someone with strong gay inclinations due to actuating on gay impulses such as not only installing gay dating apps, but frequenting gay bars and communicating with gay men via the gay dating apps. We don’t know if he hooked up via these apps, but he had three different gay dating apps on his phone, Grindr, Adam4Adam and a third which I don’t recall.

So, the killer was very likely either a closeted gay man or someone with strong gay inclinations who suffered with massive homophobia. That isn’t uncommon for men who can’t accept their own sexuality and this wouldn’t be the first time an attack on LGBT persons has been because of a self-hating person who projects their hate onto others who are like themselves.

That old adage, “that which we hate in others, we hate most in ourselves” is most true. It’s most definitely been true in the past for perpetrators of hate crimes. That’s not to say that all perpetrators of hate crimes come from that group. Not remotely. However, it is true for some and it seems to be what happened in this instance.

How do we prevent this? We have to make inroads with Fundamentalists so that they understand that blanket intolerance foments this. This man who likely was gay had nowhere to turn in his community (or at least didn’t think he did), so he hated himself and everyone who was like him as he was told to.

No, I don’t think this will be about SSRI antidepressants.

I think this will be an indictment of any form of fundamentalism, especially religious fundamentalism. We’ve seen killings like this from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim and even Buddhist fundamentalists. It’s not about any particular religion. It’s about the fundamentalists who create and foster intolerance.

I know. And what he said was incoherent.

If he was a true jihadi, then the question of if the people were black or not wouldn’t have meant a damn thing considering they’ve bombed mosques before. There’s NO WAY that he’s sparing African Americans because “they’ve suffered enough” if he’s a true jihadi.

We just have too much data for this to fly.

Now, people who WANT to believe this will. He’s the right color and religion and he said the magic words, so GUILTY!!! LET’S GO TO WAR!!! LET’S GIVE UP MORE OF OUR RIGHTS!!!

It’s just not true is all.