Shooter John Russell Houser of Phenix City, AL has Tea Party Nation ties.

[herding cats]

John Russell Houser

Male
Phenix City, AL
United States

John Russell Houser is now a member of Tea Party Nation
Jun 20, 2013

http://www.teapartynation.com/profile/JohnRussellHouser?xg_source=activity

Police have identified the shooter in Thursday night’s attack inside a Louisiana movie theater as 58-year-old John Russell Houser. Authorities say the man is from Alabama and had been staying at a local hotel recently. They described him as a “drifter” who had disguises in his car. They say he appears to have been armed only with a .40-caliber handgun, and that his car was parked outside an emergency exit door—indicating that he planned to get away.

Officials say they know little about the shooter, and are requesting that people with information on him contact local authorities. A Google search for the name reveals a Tea Party Nation page registered to a person with that name. Authorities have not confirmed whether the page, registered in June 2013, belonged to the shooter. The owner of the Tea Party Nation page identifies his hometown as Phenix, Alabama.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/23/shots-fired-at-louisiana-movie-theater.html

[exboyfil]

1. Just posted the website

identifier on Free Republic without comment.

[herding cats]

2. That should be fun!

[mmonk]

3. .

[malaise]

7. Oh dear

I may pop over to see the response

[GusBob]

4. see the post in their forum: "It happens again"

about the shooting. Irony

[herding cats]

9. That's going to sting once they realize the shooter was one of their own. nt

[GusBob]

11. If you go to that post in their forum it is being addressed

trying to pass it off as a "liberal media narrative"

[Gothmog]

5. It is still early but this is interesting

[woodsprite]

6. Not surprised. Getting scary out there. They'll probably try to blame Pres. Obama.

Let's see - he couldn't get the medical care he needed due to "Obamacare" or he lost his job, house, etc. because of Obama.

I've noted that with my TP and GOP aquaintances their rhetoric and intensity, reactions to news and blatant hate for Pres. Obama have greatly escalated in recent months. Other people have mentioned the same thing.

I'm seriously considering 'unfriending' some on FB and in real life. It's not worth putting up with what they spew. Nothing I say, post, email, etc. will change their minds anyhow. I can actually see a couple of them getting worked up enough that they could go off the deep end (if they're not there already) or have a heart attack/stroke due to gay marriage, abortion, or politics in general.

[get the red out]

8. I unfriended nearly all people I knew from high school

back when that meme promoting praying for the President's death was going around. Evil bastards, that put me over my limit in a huge way.

It isn't political disagreement anymore, it is people spewing hate vs the rest of us.

I called one of the last few on her bullshit the other day and was PROUDLY unfriended myself.

[Hoyt]

10. Probably has been upset over what has been happening to the confederate flag.

[Gormy Cuss]

12. The choice of a theater is probably linked to the sentencing of the Denver shooter.

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Copycat.

[Hoyt]

14. In this particular case, I guess it's fortunate he only had a handgun and not a AR15 or something.

[Erose999]

13. But he's white and therefore can not be a radicalized terrorist, he's just a lone wolf.