The Austin bomber wrote political views in a blog

https://www.statesman.com/news/crime--law/the-suspect-mark-conditt-proposed-ending-sex-offender-registry/CQUCcXNJ9nb2iFs8sSq0pK/

Sean Collins Walsh Claire Osborn Tony Plohetski American-Statesman Staff
11:33 a.m. Wednesday, March 21, 2018

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In 2012, when he was 17 years old, Austin bombing suspect Mark Conditt laid out his political views in a series of blog posts he wrote for an Austin Community College course on U.S. government.

On the blog, Conditt described himself as a conservative. He wrote that he was against gay marriage and abortion and in favor of the death penalty.

He also wrote that he supported doing away with the sex offender registration system.

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Conditt, who was homeschooled and attended Austin Community College’s Northridge Campus, died early Wednesday when he apparently detonated a bomb in his vehicle as police closed in on him near Round Rock.

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His mother, Danene Conditt, posted a picture of him in February 2013 to mark his completing a high school-level education.

“I officially graduated Mark from High School on Friday. 1 down, 3 to go. He has 30 hrs of college credit too, but he’s thinking of taking some time to figure out what he wants to do….maybe a mission trip.

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