Funny if it Weren't so Sad: Dylann Roof the Militant Secular Liberal

      Mostly the response of the Right has been hand waving about the intractability of mental illness and the nature of human evil. Ie, classic libertarianism. 

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/what-happened-in-charleston-yesterday.html

    
     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/california-gop-assembly-leader-kristin.html

     They don't want to try to fathom the unfathomable motives that might have led Roof to commit such pointless slaughter. 

      It's too hard to say whether or not he might have had a deep seated hatred of black people.

       http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/jeb-bush-doesnt-know-if-this-man-is.html

      Like the Kennedy assassination, it's a mystery wrapped inside of an enigma. 

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ema7lfEAMk

     They are willing to speculate one possible motive. He hates religion. Specifically just Christian religion. 

      "In the aftermath of a mass shooting at Charleston’s historic Emanuel A.M.E. Church that killednine people, most elected officials and political pundits are carefully expressing their condolencesin a way that avoids mentioning race."

      "Instead, many right-wing commentators are seizing on the location of the massacre — a Wednesday night Bible study in a church whose history dates back more than 200 years — as evidence that Christians are under attack in the United States."

      "Fox News was quick to declare that the Charleston shooting was an “attack on faith.” On Thursday’s Fox and Friends, panel members discussed the “rising hostility against Christians in this country because of our biblical views.” GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum followed suit, calling the shooting part of a broader assault on “religious liberty” in this country."

      “We have no idea what’s in his mind. Maybe he hates Christian churches,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in reference to the white shooter.

       "Focusing on the religion of the nine victims, however, obscures the larger reality of race-based hate crimes at houses of worship. The tragedy at Emanuel A.M.E. represents just the latest in along line of violent attacks on black churches — targeted not for their “biblical views,” but because of the color of their parishioners’ skin."

     http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/06/19/3671706/charleston-religious-liberty-race/

     There is a history of persecution not of all Christian churches but black ones only. 

     "White Americans have long been wary of the black church establishment for reasons that are far removed from religious beliefs. In the 1800s, when freed blacks started organizing an autonomous denomination where they wouldn’t be subjected to segregation in the pews — the African Methodist Episcopal Church — their white neighbors were nervous that an all-black space would give slaves the opportunity to organize and rebel. Indeed, the early leaders of black churches preached a theology of liberation. One of the founders of Emanuel A.M.E. attempted toorganize a slave revolt in 1822, and the church was burned to the ground in punishment. White slaveowners were so wary of future attempts that laws prohibiting all-black congregations were enacted throughout much of the South and remained in place until after the Civil War."

    South Carolina doesn't even admit the exitence of racially motivated murders. 

    "South Carolina is one of just a handful of states that doesn’t have a hate crime law. For years, local legislators have been attempting to add a state statute to allow for harsher penalties for crimes motivated by hatred of a certain group. But those efforts have repeatedly failed — partly because conservatives like Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina senator and current Heritage Foundation president, have argued that hate crime laws are “dangerous step” toward persecuting people for their religious views."

      Again, an example of the perversity of libertarian definitions of liberty.