"Both shooters were veterans of our most recent wars and both apparently were right-wing terrorists of different creeds. The Michigan suspect had some profound and virulent hatred of Mormons. He not only shot up a Mormon church, but he burned it down. In North Carolina, the suspect apparently was convinced that LGBTQ+ citizens were conspiring against him, so he opened up on a waterfront bar from a boat on the water."
"Paul Campos over at LG&M has some interesting speculation about Thomas Sanford, the Michigan killer. Evidently, deep in the darkest right-wing fever swamps, there is a theory that Charlie Kirk was not killed by a gunshot, but rather by an exploding microphone planted on his podium by a cabal of Mormon elders and foreign agents. (That Kirk's accused killer was raised in a Mormon household figures in there somewhere, too, but I'm damned if I can figure out how.) Campos reasonably wonders if Sanford was radicalized by this loopy theory and decided to act on it."
Two mass shootings occurred on one September weekend, one in Michigan and one in North Carolina, killing at least seven and wounding thirteen. Both suspects were veterans of recent wars and allegedly acted as right-wing extremists motivated by hatred. The Michigan suspect attacked and burned a Mormon church, while the North Carolina suspect allegedly fired from a boat at a waterfront bar, targeting LGBTQ+ patrons. Deeply conspiratorial right-wing online theories and feverish narratives about Mormon and LGBTQ+ conspiracies surfaced around the suspects. Calls arose to study similarities between the crimes and revive a DOJ report on right-wing terrorism.
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