Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspectin Saturday’s shooting, was registered as a Republican voter, according to Pennsylvania records.

Already the republicans are dismissing his voter registration as meaningless. Here comes the “mental illness” angle.

Edit: apparently it’s not uncommon to register with the party you oppose in PA. This is going to be a fun ride.

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Apparently he was hit by shattered glass from the teleprompter being shot, not grazed by a bullet.

    (Not that I buy the conspiracy angle. I think it makes far more sense that we have a dangerously polarized society and a lot of seriously unhappy young men who don’t know what to do with their anger. That leads to violence.)

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      4 months ago

      The glass thing was to my knowledge reported by TMZ though more recent reporting does say the bullet grazed his ear.