<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Nine people were killed in Dayton, Ohio last weekend when lone gunman Connor Betts opened fire in a popular nightlife district.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Hours earlier, 20 people were killed during a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">While the Texas perpetrator left behind a manifesto describing the “Hispanic invasion,” the Ohio shooter was a supporter of Elizabeth Warren who may have been radicalized by Antifa (that&#8217;s right, nut-jobs exist on the left too). </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">According to Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl, Betts had an obsession with violence and kept a &#8220;hit list&#8221; of the people he wanted to rape or kill. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">A federal investigation into his social media use revealed Betts&#8217;s longtime support for Antifa &#8211; an</span><span class="s1"> autonomous, left-wing movement whose members use online and real-life violence against those identified as racist, fascist, or far-right. The group’s stated purpose is to fight far-right and white supremacist ideologies directly, rather than through electoral means. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">While it may be impossible to clarify whether Mr. Betts identified as a member of Antifa, his support for the group is significant.</span></p>
<p>In 2018, Betts tweeted<span class="s1"> “kill every fascist” and “Nazis deserve death and nothing else.”</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Last December, he contacted the Antifa gun group Socialist Rifle Association about bump stocks (the controversial gun add-on that allows semiautomatic rifles to fire faster). </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">In June, Betts wrote: “I want Socialism, and I’ll not wait for the idiots to finally come round understanding.”</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Last month, Betts described the Antifa militant who was killed while firebombing an ICE facility in Tacoma, WA as a “martyr.”</span></p>
<p><strong>In commenting on the Dayton shooting, YouTube personality Tim Pools theorizes that Betts may have been motivated by far-left rhetoric. </strong></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">“Is it possible…that Connor Betts was in this space we so often facetiously refer to where the far authoritarian left call everyone a Nazi? I</span><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">s it possible that Connor Betts was looking at regular people, consumerism&#8230;people at these bars and these places as contributing to a system of climate change, of wealth inequality, and of fascism?&#8221;</span></p>
<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;m saying is, perhaps a delusional and crazy person in a paranoid state starts thinking the Nazis are out to get them because they keep seeing it over and over and over again.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pool admits that when he first heard about the two shootings, he assumed both perpetrators were white nationalists. &#8220;That is the bias we have in this country,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Thus, we see politicians calling out the far-right extremists. We don&#8217;t see them calling out the far-left. In fact we see them doing the opposite. <em>Calling for more</em>. Praising the terrorists like Shaun King did. And that is what is truly terrifying.&#8221;</p>