As the Noise Machine publicizes suspect Gavin Long's one-time membership in the Nation of Islam, Steve M. offers some more telling details on Long's path to planning a massacre—
... he got there by a circuitous route. He spent a long time obsessed with self-help and self-improvement, and wanted -- in an almost Trump-like way -- to sell his alleged greatness to other seekers of human perfection...It's a story of someone with a military background—and mental instability—who gravitated to Afrocentric versions of sovereign citizenship, along with self-improvement. He also came under the influence of the "Men's Rights" movement. In other words, he had multiple crank ideas that, had he been a white supremacist cop-killer, would have made him "a lone wolf" whose actions were unfathomable and thus of no greater social significance.
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