Shooters Are Often Non‑Ideological or Personally Motivated

Garrison talks about how politicians and media figures weaponize public acts of violence though the lens of partisan political ideology.

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https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2025/09/michigan-church-shooter-told-burton-council-candidate-that-mormons-are-the-anti-christ.html

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/09/29/thomas-jacob-sanford-michigan-shooting-suspect-anti-lds-tirade/86415139007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/michigan-church-attack.html

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https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1972323666705973589?s=61 

https://bsky.app/profile/aric.bsky.social/post/3lxmr4jq3qs2d 

https://x.com/jamesstout/status/1972669516384539066

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-10-06/dallas-ice-shooting-politics-and-ideology-or-notoriety-and-fame-joshua-jahns-immigration 

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https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/

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