At least they are reporting on it. They don't draw any conclusions but they also include info that suggests he's right winger....
“As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy,” the former classmate, Caitie Parker, wrote in a series of Twitter feeds Saturday. “I haven’t seen him since ’07 though. He became very reclusive.”
Jared Lee Loughner had become increasingly erratic in recent months, so much so that others around him began to worry.
In other words, no one connected the dots.