emma myers-Places Of Worship Are Increasingly Becoming Targets Of Extremist Violence

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This interview talks about a shooting recently in a synagogue, and our author interviews J.M.Berger, a specialist on reading and analyzing extremist manifestos. Berger disproves some common misconceptions about shootings, for example, they are almost never just a "lone wolf", but are typically aware of the media they will get and have a team behind them (metaphorically) moving them to commit the act. This is such a terrible situation, but when hearing so much about shootings and the effects, the shooter is never really acknowledged as to having some sort of background. For me personally, it makes the subject way more interesting to learn about.

Since shootings have only been happening quite recently, I have no way to relate this to history other than the blunt white supremacy, which the article mentions as the broader ideology at hand. The reason that this is happening is the same reason many events of a similar nature have occurred in the past, and this only goes to show that history repeats itself and will keep doing so until we, as the general public, understand the issue and fight against it (and when these shooters stop being crazy)