Jacksonville shooter who targeted Black shoppers had swastikas drawn on rifle

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Jacksonville shooter who targeted Black shoppers had swastikas drawn on rifle
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The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.

A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.

"This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people," the sheriff said at a news conference. "He wanted to kill n------."

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I mean... aren't they both?

Yes yes we're all tragedies of pseudo-random determinism, 7 billion products of our environment, very sad much insight.

That's why you have to put down the rabid dogs humanely.

Yes, but thats's removing responsibility on the perpetrator's part, and we obviously can't do that. We're assumed to be responsible for our actions.

We can hold someone responsible for their own actions while still acknowledging that people are a product of their own environment and try to study and address the underlying societal/economic conditions that led to these situations occurring in the first place.