In less than 24 hours, America suffered two mass shootings
AMERICANS WENT to sleep on August 3rd reading about a mass shooting that had left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas, and woke up to news of another shooting overnight in which nine people, plus the shooter, had been killed in Dayton, Ohio. Both come just one week after a gunman killed three people and himself at a festival in Gilroy, California. The El Paso massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in America since November 2017, when a gunman in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killed 26 people.
Shortly before opening fire, the El Paso shooter—a 21-year-old from suburban Dallas named Patrick Crusius—appears to have posted a manifesto on 8chan, a messageboard popular with the far right .
Strictly speaking, Mr Crusius appears to have acted alone: he was the sole shooter, and mentions no help in planning or carrying out the attack. But that does not make him a lone wolf. His murder has a noxious lineage. The Christchurch killer inspired him, just as Anders Breivik, a Norwegian right-wing terrorist who murdered 77 people in and near Oslo, inspired Mr Tarrant. In recent years Western countries have seen a surge in far-right violence. Between 2010 and 2017, America suffered 2.
President Donald Trump called the El Paso shooting “an act of cowardice”. Mr Crusius said his “opinions on immigration, automation and the rest predate Mr Trump and his campaign for president”. But no president has campaigned on immigration fears as explicitly as Mr Trump, nor has any mainstream American politician—much less a president—as directly stoked the flames of racial grievance.
Less is known about the Dayton shooter, who was killed less than a minute after opening fire. He used a .223 “long gun” with high-capacity magazines, which are legal in Ohio and 41 other states. The Gilroy killer’s motive is similarly unclear, though in a deleted social-media post he appears to have ranted about “hordes of mestizos”. What is depressingly clear, however, is that as long as America makes it easy for young, angry men to buy weapons of war, it should expect more mass shootings.
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