Super Sleuths!
In March of this year, a disturbed and likely autistic woman named Audrey Hale, apparently also calling herself Aiden Hale at times as she occasionally thought she was a boy, shot up a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. Despite everyone knowing she left behind a manifesto and apparently many other writings, journals and videos, we are not permitted to speculate on her motives or even see her materials. When a whopping three pages of her manifesto were leaked, the media was apoplectic and it was promised that heads would roll. Some 8 months later, we are supposed to assume that she had no discernible motives.
In 2017, a man named Stephen Paddock shot up a country music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada. He killed over 60 people and wounded more than 400. This heinous crime, the worst mass killing by an individual in American history, has never been solved. We know who (allegedly) did it but no one has any idea why he hauled dozens of guns to a hotel room and went on a shooting rampage. One would think the Federal authorities would leave no stone unturned but it appears an awful lot of stones were not only not turned over but were instead buried under a foot of concrete.
Then earlier this week, Monday to be exact, a 20 year old man named Benjamin Charles Jones (three name shooter alert BCE!) shot and wounded 4 people at a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio (outside of Dayton) before killing himself. By Thanksgiving Thursday, just a few days after the shooting, we knew what motivated this guy: LITERAL NAZISM!
From the article:
The FBI said the gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio on Monday, wounding four before killing himself, may have been “at least partially inspired by racially motivated violent extremist ideology”.
It confirmed two of the victims were white and the other two were Black.An FBI spokesperson told ABC News that two Nazi flags, “the SS history book”, a shooting complex card, handwritten notes and a laptop were among items recovered from the home of the gunman, identified as 20-year-old Benjamin Charles Jones, of Dayton, Ohio.
“Based on evidence collected, including journal writings from the attacker, he may have been at least partially inspired by racially motivated violent extremist ideology,” the spokesperson told ABC, adding that the agency “will continue to investigate the motivating factors leading to this attack”.
Jones entered the Beavercreek store in suburban Dayton at about 8.30pm holding a Hi-Point 45-caliber carbine. He opened fire, hitting three women and a man, before turning the weapon on himself, authorities said.
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May have been partially motivated by “racially motivated violent extremist ideology”. This LITERAL NAZI VIOLENT EXTREMIST shot four people and then shot himself with a damn Hi-Point carbine, and half of the people he shot were White? Get the fuck outta here.
I am an actual right-wing extremist and I have zero Nazi flags. I have thought about cultivating a friendship with a Fed in a chat room just to score some sweet Nazi swag for free and maybe a Daniel Defense AR.
You can rest quite assured that the FBI will not in fact “…continue to investigate the motivating factors leading to this attack”, because they have already declared the shooting to be “racially motivated” and I am sure the various Feds who were egging Benjamin Charles Jones on to shoot up the Walmart know all they need to know about him. I would bet everything I own that somewhere in an FBI office there are extensive files about this guy, including chat logs from Federal agents talking to this guy on Discord and Telegram.
The wrong kind of shooter, and we never learn what set them off. The right kind, the kind that conveniently has “Nazi flags” and “the SS history book”, whatever the hell that is, and the authorities can pin down his motives in a matter of hours. From Keystone Kops to Sherlock Holmes, all depending on who did the shooting and how well he was known by the authorities.