Why are high-profile shooters writing on their ammo?

Why are high-profile shooters writing on their ammo?

In several recent high-profile shootings, law enforcement has found inscriptions on the perpetrators’ weapons and ammunition — sometimes overt political cues, sometimes drawn from meme and gaming subcultures, sometimes both.

The man who, on September 24, killed one detainee and injured two others at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas reportedly scrawled “ANTI-ICE” on one of his rounds. In Utah, the assailant charged with the September 10 assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk covered his ammunition with references to memes, games, and politics.

Similar inscriptions surfaced on weapons or ammunition in the August mass shooting at Minneapolis’s Annunciation Catholic School, the December killi