Mass shooters - progressives?

[kerryt1]

Got this in an email forward, and like all of them I question if it's true. Anybody know if there is truth to this?

> Why is it that those who use guns to kill movie goers and children in schools are progressive Democrats?

1) Columbine School shootings - April 20, 1999 - thirteen premeditated murders by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebolt, too young to vote but both from families who were progressive liberals and registered Democrats.

2) VA Tech shootings– April 16, 2004 – thirty-two premeditated murders by Cho Seung-Hui, a registered Democrat who had written hate mail to President George W. Bush.

3) Fort Hood shootings - November 5, 2009 - thirteen premeditated murders by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim and a registered Democrat.

4) Aurora, CO. Century Theater shootings – July 20, 2012 – twelve premeditated murders by James Holmes, a registered Democrat, Occupy Wall Street participant, and a progressive liberal who had been a staff worker on the Obama election campaign.

5) Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings – December 14, 2012 – twenty-seven premeditated murders by Adam Lanza, a registered Democrat whose facebook rants showed he despised Christians.

95 murders (mostly women and children) and ALL of these shooters were progressive liberal Democrats - - none were NRA members - - none were members of a Tea Party - - none were conservative Republicans.

Interesting, isn’t it?

 

[Dukester]

That's pretty awesome. It is now on my Facebook page.

 

[Dale00]

I believe these are mostly correct but the Virginia Tech shooter was not an American citizen and not registered to vote to the best of my knowledge.

Also see http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1426565_Mass_Shooters_All_Democrats_or_Liberals_.html

I was going to post this to facebook but decided to factcheck it before I did and found the following:

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=1705051

I'm not sure how Seung-Hui Cho could have been a "registered Democrat" given that:

a) He was Korean national with permanent residency status, not a U.S. citizen.

b) He lived all of his adult life in Virginia, a state which does not record party affiliation in the voter registration process.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/204826
http://votesmart.org/elections/voter-registration/VA


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/house/jared-lee-loughner-was-a-regis.html

Suspected Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner registered as an independent voter in Arizona in the fall of 2006, according to the Pima County Registrar of Voters.


Also, I believe Loughner's Occupy involvement was debunked before too...

A few other points:

None of them were Republicans. None of the shooters were members of the NRA nor were they stereotypical redneck gun owners that the Left seems so intent on vilifying.