Why does the media have to create and invent motives for this? Maybe the guy simply cracked. Does it have to be more than that?
It's natural human curiosity to wonder why. At least he's alive. In most of these cases people are left wondering, because the shooter is usually dead, from a law enforcement bullet or the gunners own weapon. If he's alive he can say why he did what he did.
You know, reflecting on my brief excursion to that pit gerry mentioned, I'm not surprised at all by this.
Recently some talking head, can't remember which one, remarked on an Obama nomination for a circuit court judicial position, that he was concerned about Muslims in America being targeted after 9/11. He [talking head] thought this was preposterous, that the fellow wasn't thinking about the thousands of deaths. Well, that was a bit disingenuous. He [nominee] never said that it was his first thought, or even the pressing concern he had.
Sure enough, in the months and years after 9/11, Arabs/Muslims/Persians/Hindu...any group who resembled the en vogue terrorist, became an increasingly common target as victims of violent crime. They didn't usurp Jewish Americans, but they rose from something like a few tenths of a per cent, to nearly 10% I think it was.
Seems to me at least, a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy on the part of those who are vehemently xenophobic in the aftermath of a tragedy like 9/11 was. I'm not saying that this man was thinking about any of that, but it's hard to see how this cycle does not increase the likelihood of stuff like this happening.