>>Because the killer is a gun-owning white male with a rather unshaven appearance, the immediate assumption made before the facts of the case began to come out, even by many conservatives, was that Hicks must be a right-wing Christian Tea Partier who killed the students because they were Muslim.<<
Horse hockey! Provide names of Conservatives who made that assumption - or retract that statement.
Yes, I’d like to hear about these “conservatives” too, since I never heard anybody but the normal liberal muck rakers making these claims.