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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 bob_super on Wednesday October 04 2017, @04:19PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday October 04 2017, @04:19PM (#577073)

    > It's quite irrational to even try.

    It's totally irrational to do nothing, just because some people will find a way around the rules.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:47PM (#577170)

    I agree, let's not "do nothing".

    Let's take the time to rip away all ~20,000 of those laws that blatantly and directly violate the "shall not be infringed" directive of the legally-enshrined acknowledgement that individual people are free to arm themselves with whatever weapons they can dream up.

    Counter-attack sniper rifles! Armed drones! Gas grenades! Smart rifles! [npr.org] All available over-the-counter at your local hardware store.