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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

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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:22PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:22PM (#576049)

    Here: [wikipedia.org]

    On May 31, 2014, two 12-year-old girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin allegedly held down and stabbed a 12-year-old classmate 19 times. When questioned later by authorities, they reportedly claimed that they wished to commit a murder as a first step to becoming proxies for the Slender Man, having read about it online...

    After hearing the story, an unidentified woman from Cincinnati, Ohio told a WLWT TV reporter in June 2014 that her 13-year-old daughter had attacked her with a knife, and had written macabre fiction, some involving the Slender Man, who the mother said motivated the attack...

    On September 4, 2014, a 14-year-old girl in Port Richey, Florida, allegedly set her family's house on fire while her mother and nine-year-old brother were inside. Police reported that the teenager had been reading online stories about Slender Man as well as Atsushi Ōkubo's manga Soul Eater...

    During an early 2015 epidemic of suicide attempts by young people ages 12 to 24 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Slender Man was cited as an influence; the Oglala Sioux tribe president noted that many Native Americans traditionally believe in a "suicide spirit" similar to the Slender Man.

    It's worth noting the reasons why people do things.

    Terrorism is violence for the furthering of some political purpose; Islamic terrorism is different from, say, a guy who has never been able to get a woman to sleep with him and takes out his revenge on the world. The reason should be pointed out, because it's important.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Monday October 02 2017, @09:57PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Monday October 02 2017, @09:57PM (#576238) Journal

    > a guy who has never been able to get a woman to sleep with him and takes out his revenge on the world

    When I was attending college and living in a men's dorm on campus, this thought belatedly occurred to me. The first dorm I was in not only was all men, it was the most luxurious, newest men's dorm on campus, and the entire football team lived there. If some crazy, hard up guy thought to reduce the competition for women by offing a bunch of men, there could not have been a more obvious choice than bombing the dorm I was in. The same logic could apply if some ultra rabid fan of an opposing football team wanted to assure victory by eliminating our team. I moved to another dorm the next year.