No motive has emerged for Thursday evening's bloodshed at the hands of 22-year-old gunman Jake Davison, who killed himself after the six-minute spree in Plymouth, southwest England, not far from western Europe's biggest naval base.
Local and national leaders expressed shock and grief.
Home Secretary Priti Patel stressed the government was addressing online extremism in forthcoming legislation that seeks to hold social media companies to greater account. A single gun was recovered from the scene after Davison shot himself, but the police were unable to confirm witness accounts that it was a pump-action shotgun.
Private ownership of handguns was outlawed in nearly all cases after a school massacre in the Scottish town of Dunblane in 1996, which claimed the lives of 16 young pupils and their teacher in Britain's worst mass shooting to date.Licences last five years, and are meant to be granted only after thorough police background checks, including for mental illness.
The content suggested a self-pitying loner, alienated from his family and hostile to women, identifying with the"incel" subculture.One message featured a misogynistic rant to camera. In the last upload, on July 28, he spoke of feeling"beaten down" and"defeated by life".
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