[Eagles6]

How odd! Article doesn’t mention motive. Was it politics, police brutality, climate change, animal rights...?

[naturalman1975]

As there are a lot of other news articles making it pretty clear what the shooter’s motives were, I don’t think the fact that it isn’t stated in every single article is some sort of cover up.

I know Americans are used to the media trying to play down Islamism as a motive in cases like this, but the Australian media - mostly - doesn’t do that, and hasn’t done that.

[Prospero]

Actually, I think they might have sewn in a "plausible" motive that fits a new, more 'inclusive' narrative, since Australia's own peculiar branch, like the rest of the tribe, is so daft about using words like 'terrorism,' especially of the Islamic kind.

Their all-inclusive shaming frame - when used only against the Right - is 'extremist.' For the whole world's social internationalists this includes anyone from Rock-Ribbed Republican members of the Jaycees to the membership of the NRA.

That nasty, unconfiscated gun! Did they get its mug shot?