Robert Aaron Long

[arlyellowdog]

We can’t say that this is just the normal psycho gun nut. This guy targeted Asians. We need to find out if he was motivated by Trump (and Fox and Newsmax and the rest of Trump’s criminal enterprise). Just like January 6, there’s needs to be an investigation.

[dawg day]

1. Evangelical churchgoer.

It's extraordinary how twisted they can get.

[Ilsa]

4. So was it Asians, or that these were "massage" parlors,

or both? He needs to understand that many of these women are not there by choice, and that the sex isn't their choice. Organized crime makes money off these places, making it more dangerous for the sex workers.

[dawg day]

9. Also, these men blame women for "making me sin" or whatever

No matter what, it's always an excuse to hurt women.

[oswaldactedalone]

2. Killing in the name of God

One reason, among many, of why I refuse to be involved in organized religion.

[roamer65]

3. Domestic terrorist.

Evangelical churches should be ruled terrorist organizations, just like radical madrasses.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. No matter who's president, he lives in a white supremacy that considers immigrant and minority

sex-workers expendable. Political dunking isn't even necessary. This isn't rocket science.

[Whiskeytide]

6. I suspect he was obsessed with the women he ...

... visited at these establishments, and lost it when he realized it was a business transaction and not “love”.

But I’m completely speculating. We’ll see, I guess.

[MineralMan]

7. Or, perhaps, those establishments refused to give him

a "happy ending." We don't know. I'd guess the guy is an incel, in the first place, given the description provided of him in the media.

If he was refused the thing he sought at some establishment he assumed would give him that, that could have triggered him into a violent mode.

Or it could be simple racial prejudice taken to its extreme.

We'll probably find out, in the end.

[Whiskeytide]

11. A sound speculation as well. I do think those ...

... businesses usually don’t turn paying customers away, though, unless you’ve caused trouble of some kind. That’s why I suspect we will learn he had a history there.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

8. Whatever the motivation that triggered his crimes, he's a product of cultural malignancy.

It's entrenched, it's multi-generational, and it's being cynically nurtured. More and more voices on the far-right are openly agitating for political violence and insurrection as the only remaining option, and the nation is awash with high-powered weaponry in the hands of unstable people. Dangerous times.

[Ilsa]

10. Unstable, ignorant, unwilling to take responsibility for

their own failures. As "superior" males, they think they should be at the top of the heap. If they aren't, it's because someone stole their place in line, at work or school, etc.

Yes, they are armed to the teeth and dangerous.