Another day, another mass killing in America by a man who – surprise! – has a history of troubling behaviour towards women.
The target, the Capital Gazette newspaper, had previously reported the shooter’s online harassment of a woman; he tried and failed to sue them. So three years later, he picked up a gun instead.
The shooter, Jarrod Ramos, appears to be a Trump supporter.
President Trump has previously said of journalists: “I would never kill them, but I do hate them.” This week, he once again referred to mainstream news journalists as “the enemy of the people”, a claim he’s been making for two years now. Also this week, alt-right darling and thoroughly reprehensible troll Milo Yiannopoulous said he couldn’t wait for “vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight.”
You don’t need to be a weatherman to see which way the wind blows.