More Domestic Terrorism at a Denver Walmart

Police have released more information after capturing the man who shot three people in a Denver Walmart:

Two men and a woman were killed in a shooting inside a suburban Denver Walmart on Wednesday night that forced customers to either hide or flee.

Thornton police reported "multiple parties down" and advised people to stay away from the area as dozens of police cruisers and emergency vehicles raced to the scene.

The men died at the store, and the woman died at a hospital.

Police spokesman Victor Avila said a man nonchalantly entered the store and fired a handgun into a group of people before fleeing in a car. No one has been arrested.

"This is a very heinous act," Avila said. "We don't know exactly what the motive of the person was, but it was certainly a terrible act."

All you need to do is read the names of the people who he killed and you'll know the motive:

[Scott] Ostrem is accused of casually walking into a Thornton Walmart at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday and fatally shooting 52-year-old Pamela Marques, of Denver; 66-year-old Carlos Moreno, of Thornton; and 26-year-old Victor Vasquez, of Denver.

He calmly, coldly and methodically murdered three people with Hispanic names. Was that an accident? These were people he didn't know. People he just picked at random in a Walmart.

His actual motive is irrelevant. His actions, intentional or not, terrorize and ethnic minority to advance an overt political goal -- to chase Hispanics out of the country. That's the definition of terrorism.

His lawyer will tell him to deny this motivation, because if he admits to terrorism or racial animus he'll be stuck with a much bigger sentence. So we'll ever hear the truth.

But you know the Trump voters clamoring for The Wall are cheering this guy on. They got the message the Walmart killer sent. And some of them will take this as an inspiration. And this act of terrorism will be repeated. Only the next guy will take pages out of the books of Dylann Roof and the Vegas shooter: he'll be outfitted with a bump stock and he'll shoot up a Catholic Church during a Spanish-language mass.

Every time a white guy -- like this guy, or the Vegas mass murderer, or the Colorado theater killer, or Gabby Gifford's would-be assassin -- shoots a bunch of people conservatives just blow it off.  They dismiss the killers as nut jobs or psychos. And then they say, "That's the price of freedom."

But when a Muslim kills someone, or a black man simply takes a knee during the national anthem, it's a terrible travesty and we have to lock up all Muslims, eliminate due process and cancel the first amendment.

Because freedom isn't for Muslims or black football players. Freedom is only for white guys with guns.