David Ian Long wrote to Facebook:
“I hope people call me insane… (laughing emojis).. wouldn’t that just be a big ball of irony? Yeah.. I’m insane, but the only thing you people do after these shootings is ‘hopes and prayers’.. or ‘keep you in my thoughts’… every time… and wonder why these keep happening…”
He said that he’s not crazy but that he wanted America to believe that he was. He wanted gun control, as some of the other murderers did.
There are some radical lefties with prior military service. I’ve met a few, and they’re disgusting. They try to bring dishonor on us all.
This is far fetched. I doubt if he combined a subtle political angle with a suicidal massacre.