Connor Betts, Dayton Shooter, described himself as a 'Leftist'

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104. "He was way off his meds"...

In other words, you're saying his politics had nothing to do with it, he was just "mentally ill"...? How often have I heard that after a right-winger shoots someplace up?

It seems to me that, if you insist that every mass shooting by an extremist conservative is "politically-motivated" just by the fact that they held a zealous political position, you can't duck the same charge when it's someone on the other side of the spectrum.

On the other hand, plenty of white nationalist shooters have left behind manifestos or other quotes making it clear that they were acting out of hatred for those they considered their political "enemies." There's no sign this guy did the same, or that he made an explicit connection between his violent urges and his politics as the gunmen in El Paso or Christchurch did.