Rick Santorum Suggests Unarmed 'Soft Target' Shoppers Tempted El Paso Shooter

[tanyev]

25. One aspect of this shooting that I don't think is getting enough attention

is that it was the back to school tax-free weekend. I don't know if other states do this, but TX has done it for many years now and it's a big enough deal that I always make a note to stay out of the stores on that weekend. Almost every imaginable school supply and clothing is tax free and a lot of stores also run back to school sales. Many people wait for this weekend to do their back to school shopping. In the border towns, a lot of people come in from Mexico to take advantage of the sales. I would not be the least bit surprised if that is why the shooter picked that day and went to a Walmart in a border town with the goal of killing people from Mexico.

It hasn't been that long since a Republican party that claimed to be motivated chiefly by capitalism thought it was a good thing when people from other countries came to spend their money in the U.S.

ETA: The shooter might have deliberately targeted families shopping for school supplies much like the Trump administration's idea to separate children from their familes as a deterrent.