Mass Shooter Wanted to Spur Gun Control: Journal

A man who carried out a mass shooting this year said in his journal that he wanted politicians to enact gun control. Connor Sturgeon, who gunned down five people in April in the bank that employed him and left others wounded, said in the journal that he viewed his life as pointless and felt a need to make an impact, noting that issues important to him included climate change, inflation, and access to guns. Mr. Sturgeon wrote that his goals included telling his story and “stop[ping] gun violence,” according to pages released by the Louisville Metro Police Department. His story included being able to buy a gun but wanting politicians to “stop letting anyone buy guns or this will keep happening.”...