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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: 2) by Bot on Monday October 02 2017, @06:35PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday October 02 2017, @06:35PM (#576061) Journal

    > Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists.

    Yes, and if there were a place where lunatic shooters abound, and we let them immigrate from there, because they flee from wars and stuff, never mind that it makes no sense financially socially and security wise, the media would emphasize that too. Except the media, which keeps telling us X won't happen and X happens, is not emphasizing a lot of Islamic related stuff.

    Anyway: terrorism against country music concerts is new to me, care to theorize an ideological framework for what you called terrorism?

    BTW Just not to be taken as an apologist, I support the complete eradication of both islam and country music from the planet. Getting rid of all meatbags should suffice.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:42PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:42PM (#576067)

    I support the complete eradication of ... country music from the planet.

    I don't know how old your software is, but your mental age is 12!

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Bot on Monday October 02 2017, @09:41PM

      by Bot (3902) on Monday October 02 2017, @09:41PM (#576222) Journal

      > but your mental age is 12!
      Dear log,
      Today I passed the turing test.

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