MSNBC Analyst Says Reddit, Covid Isolation Could Have Radicalized Minneapolis Shooter

EXCERPT:

O'LEARY: "So, you know, whether it’s a terrorist organization or, you know, the variety of ideologies that different people follow, they’re following them because they have susceptibility. There’s various push-pull factors. Maybe it’s some kind of mental break. Maybe it’s their life has, you know, gone down the toilet and they have no hope. Maybe they have bad parenting. A variety of things. The effects of Covid and the isolation and what’s called the gameification influence, where young men are growing up, you know, being raised by video games, all of those things are involved in really people mobilizing towards violence more routinely in these things. But you will also see people get radicalized solely on these video games through headsets. They may never go on the internet otherwise. So there’s a variety of things that, you know, threat professionals look at now, and trends. But we’re seeing this repeated, you know, that he’s had some engagement with law enforcement. If it was because of his mental state, then the question is going to be, well, how did he have access to weapons? Did he buy them legally? Did he buy them illegally? Did a family member allow him to use those? All those things are going to come out."

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