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Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 2, Insightful) by Kalas on Monday October 02 2017, @06:11PM (2 children)

    by Kalas (4247) on Monday October 02 2017, @06:11PM (#576042)

    Think of how the public, individuals in our military, and the rest of the world would react to the US openly using tanks against its own citizens.

    I haven't been able to find it yet but I remember reading a great analysis (factoring in society, tech, geography, world politics, and more) from a man with much military experience on how our government could never win a civil war. It's a thing to be avoided by all costs by using mass-media to divide us (making everything about politics) and making it more difficult to fight back should it come to that. (restrictions on the 2nd amendment) It even factored in the difference it would make (not much, it turns out) if the second amendment was nullified by a new one.
    I think the gist of it is that between guerrilla warfare, the military weakening greatly as soldiers desert rather than kill fellow citizens, and a shitload of support from countries worldwide, we'd win against our oppressors eventually.
    I'll link the paper if I can find it again later.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:37AM (#576359)

    Why do you think they are pushing the militarization of the police. How many police duties actually require RPGs, APC's, artillery and full combat gear?
    Police are much more authoritarian than the average grunt, more gung-ho, more willing to kill on command, and the media automatically reports it as police vs bad guys instead of army vs guerillas.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:30AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:30AM (#576460) Homepage
    > Think of how the public, individuals in our military, and the rest of the world would react to the US openly using tanks against its own citizens.

    Oh - we get cheap laughs out of it:

    "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" Shooting of Michael Brown ...
    Comedy ยท Focuses on the shooting of Michael Brown and police militarization in Ferguson, MO. John also discusses the ...
    www.imdb.com/title/tt3953862/
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