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The radicalization of Solomon Henderson.

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Ted Bauer
Jan 31, 2025
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The site of this one was a place called Antioch High School in Nashville, and the perpetrator was a young man named Solomon Henderson. Some of the details of this kid and the situation are spotty, and most of the “reporting” out there is saying “allegedly” or “unconfirmed,” so it feels like they have social media accounts and writing that could be him, but they don’t entirely know for sure. He apparently did attempt to live-stream the actual shooting.

It seems like he shot one person (fatally) and then, instead of expanding the massacre, he killed himself. As a result, because of how Americans process this stuff, we won’t remember it in 10 months — the body count was too low. Although, ironically, Las Vegas is one of the biggest in terms of body count, and we don’t talk about that as much as you’d think. And when we do, it’s normally Jason Aldean going on Tucker Carlson and saying Saudi helicopters were hovering over the Strip, or something. I’m lost.

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