“To see my name next to the shooter’s name … ugh, it sucks,” Demolition Ranch founder Matt Carriker said in a video posted to his channel, which is popular among gun enthusiasts

Who attempted to assassinate Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

In the nearly six-minute video, Carriker addressed his 11 million subscribers and introduced himself to new viewers, before sharing his reaction to seeing Crooks wearing a Demolition Ranch t-shirt.
“Across the board, across all my videos, we really don’t talk about politics at all. We keep politics out of it,” he prefaced. “For one, it’s not my bread and butter, but also I don’t feel the need to impose my political views and beliefs on other people.”

“However, we were thrust into the conversation after last weekend,” he continued.

Carriker added, “We were shocked and confused to find this out: The shooter who tried to assassinate Trump was wearing merch from my channel, wearing a Demolition Ranch t-shirt. And that sucked to see that. Yeah, that was rough.”

Carriker — who also has a few other channels and is a veterinarian — said his t-shirt company is based in his hometown in Texas, noting that the merchandise is printed there and shipped “all around the world.”

“We don’t vet the people who buy our shirts, obviously, it would be impossible to,” he explained, adding that he would “love to keep people like [Crooks] from buying, wearing, being associated with that article of clothing.”