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Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas

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

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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• Re:The distinction is perfectly natural Re:The distinction is perfectly natural (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:53PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:53PM (#576078)

  > This shooter was not an "Islamic terrorist", he was a good old fashioned
  > home-grown American terrorist.

  But why a "terrorist" ? Tim McVeigh and Ted Kaczynsky were terrorists, they
  had manifestos, well documented "causes" they were supporting through their
  actions (however insane their reasoning and decision making processes might
  have been).

  Until we know more, this guy might simply have been a good old-fashioned
  nutjob. Terrorism is by definition the attempt to frighten people into
  complying with one's "cause". I'd like to eventually find out if (and what)
  this guy's "cause" was, before I'm ready to label him a bona fide "terorist".

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• ''Until we know more'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:24AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:24AM (#576420)

  What are you? Some kind of commie?

  The American Way is to jump off the deep end and start throwing around baseless accusations.
  Don't you consume Lamestream Media?
  Haven't you noticed what cops do routinely?

  ...and the shooter was an over-60 real estate guy.
  Haven't you noticed what whackos that lot is?
  It was just about time for him to snap.
  {Picture of Donnie Tiny Hands with his jaw jutted out Mussolini-style goes here}

  Oh, and his brother says that the shooter wasn't a gun guy.
  ...despite his having dozens of firearms in his hotel room.

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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