the shooter is garden variety conspiracy theorist.
no real tea bag/palin/beck/limbaugh connections, but he appears to lean right because 85% of conspiracy theories lean right or have a basis in old bircher/populist/anti-semetic conspiracies.
the search to find the influence on this kids world view is kind of lame and fruitless, more or less a search for evidence to be used in finger-pointing and point-scoring.
his world view seems kind of homespun and pulled from a variety of sources, the kind of shit one would come up with after smoking tons of dope, reading first year university texts and youtube conspiracy videos.
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