Incongruously he also considered himself a conservative republican.
Nothing about him was conservative or republican. Doubtful those were his words. Probably hacked.
Had the college been an open carry campus this killing spree could have been averted.
Has that been vetted as real, something that existed before the event, and not something ginned up after the fact?
The guy fancied himself a Irish Republican Army member, it looks like he just wanted to associate with the party name “Republican”. So he is a another RINO if anything.