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posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting

A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 02 2017, @04:54PM (5 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday October 02 2017, @04:54PM (#575971) Journal

    That might all be so, or not, but the point being discussed was why the American media always plays up Islamic dimensions to these incidents but linguistically minimalizes them to "lone wolf" when it's not. Playing up the "evil Republican" or "evil Democrat" affiliations (for example) of a domestic perpetrator is gonna get half of the country even madder at the other half, and that can escalate. The country's already keyed up to the maximum now, so doing that could be dangerous.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @05:42PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @05:42PM (#576015)

    The country's already keyed up to the maximum now, ...

    Not true. If the country really were keyed up to the maximum there would be a revolution underway.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 02 2017, @07:01PM (3 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 02 2017, @07:01PM (#576087) Journal

      Maybe keyed up to near max. We DID see a "peaceful revolution" with the last election. Members of BOTH parties rejected the candidates pushed by their parties.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @09:40PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @09:40PM (#576221)

        Then a corrupt, authoritarian buffoon won the election and appointed countless establishment scumbags to his administration. Wow, what a victory against the establishment!

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 02 2017, @09:52PM (1 child)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 02 2017, @09:52PM (#576231) Journal

          That's almost what I've been saying since before the election. After the field was narrowed down, our choise was the evil witch, or the court fool.

          I voted for Johnson - but I still say that the court fool is a better choice than the evil witch. The witch would have already committed troops to Syria - a couple divisions at least - and she WOULD HAVE provoked the Russians at every opportunity.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:49AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:49AM (#576338)

            Have you noticed you don't hear much about Iran anymore? HRC would have invaded by now.