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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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Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas
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(Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Monday October 02 2017, @05:44PM (3 children)
> The reports that the shooter was at anti-trump rallies will make it here and another flamewar will ensue.
Before anyone starts that flamewar, those reports are already debunked and appear to be based on a misidentification of the shooter as one Geary Danley.
See e.g. here: https://thinkprogress.org/gateway-pundit-geary-danley-5280ad08276f/ [thinkprogress.org]
There are also reports that ISIS have claimed him (the real shooter not the fake news one) as one of their own and that he was a convert to Islam.
His brother is now on record, all over the internet (google Eric Paddock) as saying he had _no_ political or religious affiliations, no mental illness alcohol or drugs problems, he had plenty of money and gambled high stakes but no one yet knows if he had money problems or big losses.
IMO it'll take more than 48hrs to get real reliable information on motive, religions etc. - if indeed we ever find out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:02PM
Hmm, perhaps blackmailed into it? "We need another mass shooter, people aren't as afraid as they used to be." "Ok, lets threaten some guy we have easy leverage over muahaha."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @10:19PM (1 child)
Here is most of what we have so far: https://i.redd.it/n5le2zvuqgpz.png [i.redd.it]
There was also a facebook page -- not handy to me at the moment -- that had a bunch of "not my president" stuff, Rachel Maddow's show, and similar.
So it's pretty certain that this guy was liberal/left/democrat. He shot up an event that would tend to attract Trump supporters.
There is also a potential connection to ISIS via his wife/girlfriend/roommate Marilou Danley. She's from the Philippines, where ISIS is active in the south, and was there when the shooting happened. She was also in the Middle East last year, having traveled to Dubai at least.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 02 2017, @11:10PM
I'll grant you that any country music (Dixie Chicks aside) concert is going to trend more red than blue but, while reliable, it's by no means a landslide.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.