The Great Replacement Killers

Another mass shooting, another rambling manifesto about white people being "replaced."

I wasn’t going to write much about the Buffalo mass shooting, because I feel like I’ve written it all before. Everyone has their script prepared whenever this happens, as it does with depressing regularity in the United States.

Mass shootings are not exclusively an American phenomenon - in Nova Scotia we’re still reeling from the worst gun rampage in Canadian history just a few years ago, and Europe has experienced several bad ones in recent years - but it’s no coincidence that they’re much more common in the country with so many more firearms in circulation.

And we’re all pretty much resigned to the fact that there won’t be any change on the federal level, so we’ve moved on to good old-fashioned point-scoring. Admit it: when a terror attack or gun massacre happens, you all think the same thing: “please, God, let the terrorist be from [ethnic/religious/political group which I already dislike and oppose].”

While early reporting is often wrong (and fodder for conspiracy theories) it cert…