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Did any motives ever come out about the shooter and the reason that he did it?

You know, a lot of articles, you know, online try and say that it wasn't

politically motivated or religiously motivated, but not religiously motivated. Does it make a lot of

sense to me at all? Because if you're going to shoot up a church, kind of means that you have problems with religion, right? On a certain level,

on the premise of just doing that, you would think that you would have a problem with religion.

You have to be a very deranged mentally unstable individual to do anything like that just from the very

beginning, just from the jump, regardless of it's out of church or at a school or really

murdering or killing any innocent person is deranged in my mind, right?

And some would even say demonic in nature.

So what was the reasoning and the motive behind this individual?

Well, so a little background about him, and I never used his name because first I don't want his name tied to mine

and I hate I cringe every time I hear that but a little bit about his background he was in

the Air Force prior and they put him in prison because he disassembled his infant son's puppy alive in front of his infant son to get him to quit crying.

And why would the boy quit crying after that, after seeing his puppy done that way? And so then he beat his infant son until he fractured his skull

and put him in a coma so the air force put him in prison for a year and a half and when he got

out of prison they brought him before a board to get him out of the air force

and he walked in before the board members and said i'm going to go get my gun and i'm going to kill

every one of you so terroristic threats they put him in a mental institution, and he escaped from the mental

institution, and they gave him a less than honorable discharge.

And the week before he came into the church, he was at their fall festival.

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