A Marine veteran who filed a lawsuit earlier this year alleging that LGBT supremacists and pedophiles were trying to murder him because he’s a “straight man” shot up a restaurant in North Carolina Saturday night, killing three and injuring eight.
The shooter, Nigel Edge, 39, who has been identified as a combat veteran suffering from PTSD, is in custody in Southport, N.C., about 30 miles south of Wilmington.
A second Marine, identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of Burton, Mich., is dead after ramming his truck, adorned with two American flags, through the front door of a Mormon church in nearby Grand Blanc Township on Sunday morning, then shooting at churchgoers and setting a large-scale fire.
Authorities are saying, at this writing, that four people were killed, with the grim expectation that more victims could be found as rescue personnel sift through what is left of the burned-out church.
Not much is known right now about Sanford, except that he was married and had a 10-year-old son with a rare genetic disorder.
It’s not known if Sanford had any ties to the church that he attacked, though it is worth noting that the FBI has taken the lead on the investigation, and is looking at the case “as an act of targeted violence,” according to Reuben Coleman, the acting special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit field office.
Despite the lack of information, Donald Trump didn’t waste time making the church shooting out to be “yet another targeted attack on Christians.”
“There is a tremendous anti-Christian bias. We don’t hear about it. You hear about anti-Semitic, but you don’t hear about anti-Christian. They have a strong anti-Christian bias, but we’re ending that rapidly, I will tell you. We’re in a much different world today than we were one year ago,” Trump said, playing politics with dead bodies in a case that looks very well like it may have involved one of his guys – online sleuths are reporting that there was a Trump sign in the front yard of Sanford’s home.
The Nigel Edge case – that one’s pretty obvious, given the lawsuit alleging he was under attack for being straight – has, oddly, not gotten any comment from Trump.
The victims in the shooting were tourists to the waterfront community in southeast North Carolina enjoying live music at a waterside restaurant.
According to published reports, Edge pulled up to the waterside bar hosting the music event in a boat and began firing at people on an outdoor deck.
“I’m heartbroken by the shooting last night in Southport that tragically took three lives and injured others,” North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein said in a statement, in which the Democrat added that he and his wife “pray for their families and friends. I have been in touch with state and local law enforcement, and the state will provide any support needed.”
“Southport is a small but strong community. May we all come together to support them as they heal from this horrific shooting,” Stein said.
Notice how Stein didn’t make the North Carolina shooting about politics.
Trump probably thinks this is why Josh Stein is only a governor – tragedies are opportunities to score political points.
Loser.
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