It turns out the shooting at the church yesterday in Laguna Woods, California in Orange County which claimed one life was every bit as politically motivated as the shooting at the Buffalo supermarket the day before which claimed 10 lives.
While the shooter in Buffalo was a white supremacist who targeted black people, the shooter in Laguna Woods is Chinese and he targeted the church because its congregants are Chinese and support Taiwanese independence. Fortunately, the congregants fought back and subdued the shooter before authorities took him into custody. If not for their swift actions the death toll would have been undoubtedly higher.
These attacks took place on opposite sides of the country with a different set of victims. While the two perpetrators are of different races they hated the just the same and used lethal violence against innocent civilians going about their business.
The one other thing these two acts have in common is that they could have only happened in America.
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