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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:"media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists" Re:"media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists" (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday October 02 2017, @08:35PM (2 children)

  by DannyB (5839) on Monday October 02 2017, @08:35PM (#576170) Journal

  Maybe it's just me and my twisted world view. But left or right seems to have nothing to do with someone who commits mass murder.

  It's interesting how after an incident like this, many scramble to associate the perpetrator with the ${evil} political party.

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• Re:"media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists" (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 02 2017, @09:11PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 02 2017, @09:11PM (#576194) Homepage Journal

  That's because many people are just shitheads.

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• ''left or right[has]nothing to do w/mass murder'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:02AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:02AM (#576430)

  left or right seems to have nothing to do with someone who commits mass murder

  Well, if it could be shown that he was hired (exploited labor) by an employer in order to kill someone, -then- it would be pretty clear that he was Capitalist-friendly.

  ...and he was a real estate guy (rent seeker).
  Sounds like a Right^W Wrong Winger to me.

  many scramble to associate the perpetrator with the ${evil} political party

  Hey! The Socialist Equality Party wasn't mentioned anywhere so far.

  Oh, wait. You're trying to say that The Dumbocrats are "Left".
  Now, that's funny.

  Tim Kaine has been mentioned.
  That dude is in Wall Street's back pocket.
  He couldn't be farther from "Left".
  I can't think of a single Dumbocrat who's about the collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers.

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