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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 Runaway1956 on Monday October 02 2017, @06:55PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 02 2017, @06:55PM (#576080) Journal

    "ideas that led to the shooting in the first place."

    Which ideas? I've not seen a single statement alluding to the shooter's ideas.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:17PM (#576156)

    The ideas don't matter! What matters is what we do now! How can we spin this to our political advantage Madam Secretary? Oh I see, more of the same BS.

  • (Score: 1) by rylyeh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @10:27AM (1 child)

    by rylyeh (6726) <{kadath} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday October 03 2017, @10:27AM (#576515)
    This took months of planning and most likely years of anger. He characterized himself as a professional gambler at video texas hold-em. I think every time he lost big, he visualized getting back at all the people who took his money. His father was considered to be a 'psychopath'.
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    "a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:25PM (#576547)

      According to some news I saw this morning, the shooter's father was a convicted bank robber (multiple robberies) and also made a successful jail break, lived under an assumed name for many years until caught.