LA FAYETTE: The troubled "drifter" who randomly killed two women in a Louisiana movie theater and then took his own life has emerged as an anti-government extremist who owned a legally-purchased firearm.

The latest mass shooting to strike the United States took place on Thursday just hours after President Barack Obama said an inability to enact "common sense" gun controls was one of the greatest frustrations of his time in office.

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