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Video of Monday’s mass shooting in Philadelphia is a tragically familiar scene: another demented gunman clad in body armor and firing an AR-15 rifle.
“Mass shooters study other mass shooters, so there is an element of having to have your mass shooting conform with the expectation of what a mass shooting looks like,” says sociologist James Densley of the non-partisan Violence Prevention Project Research Center in Minnesota.
But what a host of blindly partisan right-wing loonies focused on was a trio of selfies that accused killer Kimbrady Carricker wearing a bra and women’s clothing four months ago.