Having a Really Bad Day in Atlanta

 Yesterday was a really bad day for him...

Cherokee County, GA sheriff's department spokesperson, Jay Baker describing suspected mass shooter, Robert Aaron Long.

Well, Long's day wasn't nearly as bad as the one experienced by the nine people he allegedly shot. Eight of them are now dead. Seven of the victims were women, six of them of Asian descent. All were located in Asian themed massage parlors, or spas.

The media and politicians from Atlanta to Washington immediately labeled the the murders as hate crimes. The police involved in the investigation have so far refused to give a definitive motive, other than the, having a really bad day, hypothesis. This reluctance has infuriated many on the left side of things who are quick to point out Asian and Pacific Island Americas have been increasingly targeted by raging idiots who blame them for the COVID virus.

As if to confirm the liberal suspicions, within hours after his first TV appearance it was found Cherokee County's pride and joy, Jay Baker had been hawking tee shirts earlier this year that read, "COVID-19, Virus Imported from Chy-Na." Other social media reports claimed he was a former employee of Blackwater U.S.A. the nefarious outfit owned by Erik Prince, but at this time that rumor remains unverified if not a tad irrelevant.

Meanwhile, the suspect himself, has, according to the authorities, confessed to the crimes. Young Mr. Long stated, however, the race of the victims had nothing to do with his rampage. He reportedly claims he has a sex addiction which made him go a little funny in the head. The reason he attacked the three Asian owned and staffed businesses, he says, is because they were temptations to him which needed to be eliminated. When he was busted on the evening of the killings he was southbound on I-75, according to him, heading to Florida to shoot up some porn industry locations.

Nancy Grace, an always questionable source, seemingly confirmed the sex addiction angle. She claimed Long's parents, both deeply religious, had kicked him out of their house because all he did was sit around during the day watching porn.

Every high school classmate who has been interviewed began their descriptions of  Aaron Long by saying something like, "I didn't know him very well, but...". Yes, we've heard it all too many times before--he was quiet, he didn't socialize that much. Only this time those descriptions might not be completely accurate.

According to others Long, himself, was quite religious. He was not only active in church groups, but was a key member of his school's chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He had told other students God had a plan for him to speak the gospel.

Predictably his second love was guns.

All this paints a confusing picture. What we do know for sure is Long's face was caught on security cameras at one of the locations. The photos went out over the internet. Members of his family took one look, then called the police. They even gave them his cell phone number. It's how the cops were able to track him down on the road south of Atlanta so quickly.

What we also know is hate crimes against Asian and Pacific Island Americans are on the rise, encouraged by people's ignorance about the nature of the virus and enabled by a certain former president. 

Indeed, given what has gone on the past year and the identity of the victims dismissing what happened in Atlanta on Tuesday as something other than a hate crime is difficult to do. 

No matter how bad of a day Aaron Long was having.

3-18-21