[aquila48]

First thing CNN points out is that he was an American citizen.

The elephant in the room is not mentioned.

[Steve_Seattle]

"an American citizen"

That was the very FIRST thing the government said about the killer; in other words, they were politicizing this from the start, spinning it in terms of recent debates about immigration from Syria.

And the government clearly thinks the public is dumb, that we all assume that - if radical immigrants come here - the very first thing they will do will be to engage in terrorism. Typically, though - here as in Europe - they are in the host country for quite some time, getting acclimated so to speak, before they commit their crimes.