There’s still far too little information about the country club shooting in New Hampshire, in which one was killed and several wounded, by a gunman shouting “Free Palestine.”

But there’s a well known tendency by authorities to minimize and dismiss any terrorist motives, insisting that attackers are irrational, mentally ill or don’t really mean it.

And that’s the argument being made here.

“We don’t have any evidence at this time that Mr. Nadeau was motivated by hate-based motivation. In fact, I would say that the evidence leads us to believe this was more likely Mr. Nadeau was simply trying to make a number of statements to create chaos in the moment,” New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said.

Shooting people causes all the chaos any gunman could possibly want. I doubt anyone was staying around for a man with a gun who then ran when he shouted, “Free Palestine”.

They’re gonna have to do better than that.