The FBI identified the shooter, who is dead, as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. A motive was not clear.

Bethel Park is a predominantly white, relatively well-to-do city in the southern reaches of greater Pittsburgh. The site of the rally, Butler, is about an hour’s drive north of Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania voter records listed a Thomas Matthew Crooks with the same address and birth date as a registered Republican, though it was not clear from the records when that was put in place.

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    He was wearing a t-shirt of a far-right militia group and owned an AR rifle. Does that sound like a Democrat?

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      far-right militia group

      LMFAO! Somehow every word in that phrase is wrong.

      I vote straight D, and among a shitload of other guns, I have an AR-15. Now what?

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      far-right militia group

      Source?

      Last I heard it was a completely apolitical YouTube channel merch