Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black people in Florida at the hands of a white, 21-year-old man who authorities say left behind white supremacist ramblings that read like “the diary of a madman.”

Following services earlier in the day, about 200 people showed up at a Sunday evening vigil a block from the Dollar General store in Jacksonville where officials said Ryan Palmeter opened fire Saturday using guns he bought legally despite a past involuntary commitment for a mental health exam.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is running for the GOP nomination for president, who has loosened gun laws in Florida and who has antagonized civil rights leaders by deriding “wokeness " — was loudly booed as he addressed the vigil.

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      No no, these lone wolves all exist in a vacuum and spring fully formed like Athena from the head of economic anxiety. Stop it, you.

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      Lol, they can release them after Aiden Hale’s manifesto is released.

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        Release them both. Unlike the sycophants choking on Trumpler’s dick, I’m quite able to declare anyone who perpetrates a hate-fueled crime as scum undeserving of pity or dignity.

        The issue folks like you don’t want to confront is that for every Aiden Hale, there are hundreds of right-wing assholes shooting up gay clubs, synagogues, and entire Black communities. Take your whataboutism someplace where folks are stupid enough to mistake it for any kind of substantive argument.