It is now almost 8:000 AM CST the next morning...
These stories, like movie scripts, almost follow a template in the way the reporting unfolds. At first, the media has no info, other than the hysterical first moments, so often short on truth. It is a race to see who can report first, so caution is thrown to the winds.
Then there is an almost eagerness to see that the perpetrator of a mass shooting is a white, Christian conservative lunatic. As events unfold and it is not the suspect they so wish for, you can almost hear the disappointment in their voices and see it on their faces.
Then, as is almost always the case, it turns out to be a Muslim or Muslims, and everyone in the media is bewildered as to WHY Muslims would attack such kind, non-discriminatory people like Westerners.
It is, they’ll declare, the fault of the political Right, for demeaning Islam and Muslims—never the religion whose holy book, the Koran, urges them to wage war on non-believers, who are declared by the Prophet as “Infidels”.
They are already starting the vigils here in solidarity against “islamophobia” when it’s becoming apparent that this is a muslim-on-muslim attack.