This is the price of the 2nd Amendment: A 19-year-old kid in California got ahold of a military-style rifle, cut a fence to elude security and shot 15 people before he was shot dead by police. Among the three people killed was 6-year-old boy whose mother was also shot, but survived.
After the shooting started, someone claimed to have heard someone shout, “Why are you doing this?” and that the gunman answered, “Because I’m really angry.” An Instagram account in the gunman’s name, created four days ago, posted two messages shortly before the attack began.
One included a photograph of people walking around the Garlic Festival with the words “Ayyy garlic festival time Come get wasted on overpriced sh**.”
The other, which included a photo of Smokey the Bear holding a sign saying “Fire Danger High Today,” stated: “Read Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white tw**s?”
“Right is Might,” first published in the late 1800’s, has been described as a white supremacist text that promotes anarchy while vilifying Christianity. The book calls Jesus the “true Prince of Evil” and says that the natural order is a world at war in which the strong must vanquish the weak and white men must rule over those of color.
The story has already been knocked out of lead-story status because — sit down before reading this — it turns out Donald Trump is a racist.