https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/us/colorado-suspect-background-aldrich-invs/index.html
So based on the information in this article, I think people shouldn't be so quick to jump to "its a religous nut, neo nazi hate crime!" I'm not discounting that it may have been a hate crime either. But reading the articles I've seen so far, there is nothing to back up the statements implying that it was a politically or religously based driven crime. It appears to me that he has a family history of mental illness, he was bullied and didn't have a great childhood and probably has a mental illness as well. That does not make the situation any less horrific by any means. But I'd guess this was spurred by an untreated mental illness vs being a hate crime. Heck it could be both, but honestly, I'm so tired it being just a knee jerk reaction to blame politics or religion.
Having worked in a place where people like this end up at, both on the prison side and the mental health side, I've seen so many people who've committed awful crimes while untreated and in the middle of an episode. And when they are medicated and back to themselves, they are horrified at what they'd done, because that isn't who they want to be at all. And those behaviors or actions while in a psychotic episode are not anything they'd have chosen to do when they are "normal" Obviously this isn't the case for everyone, there are plenty of sociopaths who have no remorse or empathy for the things they did, I've worked with them as well.
Having said all of that, I hope that one day our system can be fixed, and that people can get the help they need before they do something like this. I also hope that someday our criminal justice system gets fixed so that those who were wrongfully convicted don't have to fight for decades to get the chance to get out, and that people who have committed henious crimes get the sentence they deserve. Too often the system is more about a conviction than actual justice.