Police say ‘drifter’ killed 2, injured 9 in Lafayette, La. movie theater shooting. The ‘drifter,’ John Russell Houser, killed himself with a gunshot. The Lafayette, LA police department had stated he has a criminal record but so far has provided no details about it.
Of course the left is already going out of their way to portray him as a right-wing Tea-Party member based on about zero evidence.
The Daily Beast has two items, 1. “Far-Right Shooter Kills 2 Inside Theater, and 2. “Lafayette Shooter Had Tea Party Page.” It appears to us the Daily Beast is jumping the gun and about this because when you go to Houser’s Tea-Party page it’s old and blank, which means about nothing other than he signed up and perhaps never used it. That’s some evidence.
Other’s are railing because he was white. An example is below.
@ihatethemedia – Another mass shooting in America by a White man. Time to wake up and see that we have a deeper problem here.Thats the point
— #CancelRent #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@DarakshanRaja) July 24, 2015
When asked by us if she was as concerned about the shootings in Chicago or that more black babies were aborted in NYC than born we basically got some BS answers. We didn’t get around to asking if she was a upset about the Muslim mass murderer in Chattanooga, which we a) suspicion she wasn’t and b) probably would have received another BS answer anyway.
While we feel for the people murdered or wounded we think all the jumping to conclusions and the extraordinary efforts to make this guy into a right-winger are at this point very premature.
Meanwhile we get the below tweets, indicating this guy had mental issues as he was denied the purchase of a gun.
#Lafayette shooter John Houser denied pistol permit in Russell Co., Ala., in '06, says local sheriff. Appeared to have mental health issues
— Jim Mustian (@JimMustian) July 24, 2015
The sheriff, Heath Taylor, says Houser also was recently evicted from a home there. Either '14 or '13 #Lafayette
— Jim Mustian (@JimMustian) July 24, 2015
It will be interesting to see what develops today about another shooting in a ‘gun free’ zone.