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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: 3, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Monday October 02 2017, @09:57PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Monday October 02 2017, @09:57PM (#576238) Journal

    > a guy who has never been able to get a woman to sleep with him and takes out his revenge on the world

    When I was attending college and living in a men's dorm on campus, this thought belatedly occurred to me. The first dorm I was in not only was all men, it was the most luxurious, newest men's dorm on campus, and the entire football team lived there. If some crazy, hard up guy thought to reduce the competition for women by offing a bunch of men, there could not have been a more obvious choice than bombing the dorm I was in. The same logic could apply if some ultra rabid fan of an opposing football team wanted to assure victory by eliminating our team. I moved to another dorm the next year.

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