Will there be good evidence that the Allen Texas mall shooter, Mauricio Garcia was influenced by political commentators?
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This is only about political commentators. Think TV political pundits like Tucker Carlson or online political personalities like Ben Shapiro. We are looking for evidence that he was a fan of these political pundits. For example, if the police found out that he's a subscriber of Tim Pool, that would count towards him being influenced by a political commentator. Another example would be him praising someone like Alex Jones on social media.

We will only accept credible evidence reported by the mainstream media such as The New York Times, CNN, Huff Post, The Washington Post, The Economist etc. Rando Twitter "journalists" do not count.

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After a thorough skimming of his journals (don't recommend, the dude was a terrible writer) the only real reference I found is the following DS article about Alex Johnes (Scan 09 Apr 23 19·24·45):

Furthermore his posts with lists of "articles" contain a lot of Daily Stormer and incel stuff but no real political commentators I see, representative sample (9.1.2022(71).rtf):

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@CodeandSolder also: digging up those journals took way longer than it should have, thanks random redditor.

Is the influence related to the shooting or separate?


He clearly was influenced, politically, by political commentators. OTOH, his decision to commit the crime was not necessarily influenced that much by political commentators.

@jacksonpolack It's in the description.

Would a respected media outlet reporting that reporting on mass shootings increases the likelihood of them occuring count?

@RobertCousineau No, this is only about political commentators. Think TV political pundits like Tucker Carlson or online political personalities like Ben Shapiro.

@johnleoks the research I'm alluding to includes political commentators in their analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting_contagion?wprov=sfla1

@RobertCousineau I do respect that this question is not likely intended to include that, but as written it should. And I think the research itself deserves more limelight, especially on a question like this.

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