The third mass shooting in less than a week:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shootingSantino William Legan, a 19-year-old male, was identified by authorities as the shooter.[26][27] Legan spent most of his life in Gilroy, but in the months before the shooting lived in the remote town of Walker Lake in Mineral County, Nevada.[28]
An Instagram account was opened four days before the shooting by a Santino William Legan of the same age,[17] who self-identified as being of Italian and Iranian descent.[29] On the day of the shooting, Legan made two posts to the account, one of which complained about the event congesting the countryside with "hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats" and instructed people to read the 19th-century book Might Is Right, a pseudonymous proto-fascist manifesto that promotes racial violence and anti-Semitism and is popular in white supremacist and neo-Nazi circles.[17][30]
That's something of an Orwellian double-think, two contradictory assertions in the same sentence.
1) that he's Iranian and hates Jews and "white twats",
and
2) that he's inspired by "proto-fascist" literature (19th century literature that precedes and is connected with fascism as formed in 1922 by Mussolini) and (implied) therefore neo-nazi and white supremacist.
The fact that he's Iranian could as easily suggest that he's motivated by islamic hatred of Jews and whites. The media is quick to make it a white racist crime, rather than as the evidence shows, a crime
against whites.
and
Authorities discovered a Remington 870 shotgun inside Legan's car.[12] Police and federal agents searched Legan's father's house in Gilroy.[24] Investigators also searched the gunman's apartment in Walker Lake, Nevada, where they reportedly discovered a bulletproof vest, empty shotgun and rifle boxes, a gas mask, and empty ammunition boxes, and pamphlets on guns; investigators also confiscated three hard drives and three thumb drives.[31]
Investigators have not determined a motive for the attack.[12][27] The investigation turned up evidence that Legan had been "exploring violent ideologies" and had created a list of potential targets, including the Garlic Festival as well as "religious organizations, courthouses, federal buildings and political institutions involving both the Republican and Democratic parties." Because of this list, a domestic terrorism probe has been opened.[12]
Searches found that Legan owned both left-wing and right-wing literature,[32][27] including reading material on white supremacy and Islamic extremism.[31]
Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino stated that research has shown some mass shooters have "a broad range of motivations and, at times, conflicting ideologies, which can make it difficult to classify attacks and pinpoint their motivations."[12]
