Reports: Charleston Suspect Confesses, Bought Own Gun, Will Face Death Penalty
Charleston mass shooting suspect Dylann Roof has confessed to police that he killed nine people at the Emanuel AME Church with the goal of inciting a "race war," CNN reports. (A friend says Roof had complained that "blacks were taking over the world" and that "someone needed to do something about it for the white race.")
Roof apparently also told investigators that he almost decided not to carry out his massacre because the patrons of Emanuel's Bible study group were "nice" to him.
CNN says Roof bought the gun used in the shooting at a Charleston store.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says prosecutors will seek Roof's execution. 
The state carries out death penalties relatively frequently, usually via lethal injection—10 inmates have been executed there in the last decade. More than 30 are on Death Row.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/ ... ndgun.html
From what I've been seeing and reading about scumbag the last couple of days, a couple of things are starting to become apparent:
First of all the guy's what would be called a "loser". Dropped out of school in the ninth grade, has never been able to hold down a steady job for long, into drugs and heavy drinking, minor brushes with the law...
Like I said, a loser...
The second thing is that even though he was a loser, he wasn't really a loner; he did have a few friends that he socialized with, several of whom have given interviews over the past couple of days. They all seem to tell a very similar story; over the course of about a year he became more and more focused on racism, arguing for racial segregation into separate countries, talking about a race war, etc.
Apparently none of these friends were sympathetic to what he was saying and would sometimes argue with him about it, but never really took what he was saying seriously.
This pattern of social behavior gives me the impression that he probably wasn't involved in some "real life" white supremacist organization. He apparently never talked to any of his friends about having joined one, nor did he ever invite any of them to come to a meeting of any such group. And even though his views were becoming progressively more racially radical, he wasn't dropping his friends to go start hanging out with skin heads, or any other racist groups.
All of this suggests to me that like many homegrown Islamic terrorists, this guy probably "self-radicalized" with stuff he accessed and read on racist websites and blogs. (I won't be surprised if it turns out that he bought the patches for his jacket from one of those sites) I suspect that when they go through his computer, they're going to find he spent a lot of time on sites of that sort.
The toxic stuff he was talking about (and the comments he made the night of the massacre) are not things he was getting from his family, (there's nothing to indicate that they were in any way into this racist crap) or his friends...
That pretty much leaves the internet...
