In his Twitter profile, Connor Betts, the 24-year-old suspected gunman in the Dayton mass shooting, described himself as, "he/him / anime fan / metalhead / leftist / i'm going to hell and i'm not coming back."http://bit.ly/2KpcrCL
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We verified it through information on the Twitter account that matches details we know about him.
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Adding this here since our thread was broken. We also added more details to our story about our verification processhttps://twitter.com/tomwcleary/status/1158141531087417344 …
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Photos of his family dog, the Twitter account is followed by his father and mother, selfies that match the photos of him from Facebook that we verified were him, references to Dayton and Ohio. We know it's him
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OK, it would be really helpful if you could clarify these things in the actual article given the proliferation of fake information.
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I very much doubt it is cuz looking through his likes I saw a tweet about the el Paso shooting....pic.twitter.com/xCkiWAbqaZ
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That was several hours before the Dayton shooting.
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This is a good point, but my first thought was why we are once again giving these people the spotlight. It seems the only reason is to act superior to other people who identify with similar groups and hint that these groups are responsible.
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In this case, I think the point is to show how biased media coverage is. When a shooter is a right-winger, every article mentions such. When the person is not, political leanings do not make the MSM stories. We need to quit politicizing the shooters and focus on stopping them.
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Trying to pin down the antecedent causes or events that prompted either of the two shooters is pointless speculation. There are too many possibilities. The only logical policy choice that can prevent mass shootings is to place and enforce limits on the possession of firearms.
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or if he follows back??!!
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His twitter account was suspended. I think they’re just making this up
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He didn't. Leftists don't shoot people.
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It includes photos of the shooter I think.
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it literally has him posting selfies
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