There are many questions to ask after a murder. The most operative: Who did it? Where? When? Who were the victims? What was the perpetrator's motive?
When it came to the Minnesota shooting on Saturday—during which a man named Vance Boelter allegedly killed Rep. Melissa Hortman (D–Brooklyn Park) and her husband, Mark, and wounded state Sen. John Hoffman (D–Champlin) and his wife, Yvette—many public figures leapt over some of the basics and jumped straight to something else: the shooter's politics.
It's an understandable impulse when considering some of the victims were politicians. But the issue here is less that people asked the question—it's that they went straight to answering it.
