Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Breaking News
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.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @05:26PM (29 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @05:26PM (#576002)

    Nope and nope. Killing human beings is not that difficult, and it is a testament to hope and the decency of humanity that we don't see more things like this. Gun control is about political power, not actually about keeping people safe.

    The answer to our problems has always been the same: we need to reduce corruption and stop punishing people for activities which do not expressly violate the rights of others. The islamic issue is much more complicated than the general western civilian's,

    I can't wait till we move far enough away from oil that the world can leave the middle east alone and let them sort their shit out. That or Russia / China / US need to all team up and just clean house, then support moderate governments who will be able to get along with the world community. The latter is a horrible idea really which is more likely to fuck things up further.

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   +4  
       Insightful=3, Interesting=1, Total=4
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   4  
  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday October 02 2017, @07:02PM (16 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday October 02 2017, @07:02PM (#576088)

    I can't wait till we move far enough away from oil that the world can leave the middle east alone and let them sort their shit out.

    Then why do the gun-lovers keep voting for politicians who want to start wars in the middle east?

    The answer to our problems has always been the same: we need to reduce corruption

    The gun-lovers happily vote for obviously corrupt people (of course, the other side does a lot of that too, so they're not excused either).

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 02 2017, @07:13PM (13 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 02 2017, @07:13PM (#576101) Journal

      "The gun-lovers happily vote for obviously corrupt people (of course, the other side does a lot of that too, so they're not excused either)."

      I read the first part of the sentence, and my blood pressures started going up. I read the parenthetical part of the sentence, and everything was good. Neither party is any better than the other.

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday October 02 2017, @08:13PM (12 children)

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday October 02 2017, @08:13PM (#576151)

        Not true. One party has more of a history of warmongering in the middle east than the other. Bush started 2 full-blown wars there, and his dad started 1; the past 3 Democrat presidents didn't start any.

        They both have problems with corruption, which is why I put in the parenthetical part, but notice I didn't put any such thing above it when I talked about mideast wars.

        • (Score: 4, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 02 2017, @08:45PM (11 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 02 2017, @08:45PM (#576178) Journal

          And, of course, no Democrat administration has ever started a war, or police action, or even just shot a few shells across a demilitarized zone.

          Which president went along with the trumped up CIA "evidence", to start the Vietnam War? Keep looking further back - there were others who started wars that we might have avoided.

          • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday October 02 2017, @09:52PM (10 children)

            by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday October 02 2017, @09:52PM (#576233)

            I don't need to look farther back: the parties have changed far too much, in many ways, in that span of time to where it's pointless to compare presidents from that long ago to ones from the last couple decades. A big shift happened with Nixon's Southern Strategy, where all the southern racists switched over to the GOP, but there were shifts before that too. It's only really relevant to look at Presidents that are still alive.

            Are you going to spout some silliness about Lincoln being a Republican too?

            • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 02 2017, @10:01PM (3 children)

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 02 2017, @10:01PM (#576244) Journal

              So, what you're saying is, the tiger can change his stripes? I'm not buying that. Democrats in Lincoln's day were busy keeping the black man down - and Democrats today are still trying to keep the black man on the plantation.

            • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday October 02 2017, @10:36PM (2 children)

              by hemocyanin (186) on Monday October 02 2017, @10:36PM (#576273) Journal

              Then Bill Clinton took on Nixon's southern strategy and really made it work. Just look at our burgeoning prison system filled with "super-predators" (you know that's code for "not white folk").

              Whatever ... Democrats and Republicans share the exact same foreign policy positions. That's why Bush's two wars became seven under Obama. Anyway, if you think about it, almost every major war we've been in from WWI up to Afghanistan/Iraq, was initiated by a Democrat (*). I guess the Republicans were just trying to catch up so people wouldn't start to doubt their hawkishness, because unlike Democrats, they were mostly talk, no action.

              (*) Grenada/Panama, major? Not really; Iraq I? kinda too short.

              • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:20PM (1 child)

                by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:20PM (#576619)

                The stupidity on this board is incredible.

                WWII (or rather, America's entry into it), for one, wasn't started by a Democrat, it was started by a Japanese invasion.

                And Iraq I wasn't a "war"? Holy shit, you're stupid.

            • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday October 02 2017, @10:46PM (2 children)

              by jmorris (4844) on Monday October 02 2017, @10:46PM (#576277)

              Nixon's Southern Strategy

              Haven't I bitch slapped you already over that lie? You Progs need that myth to explain how Republicans are the real racists but it is a filthy lie.

              Question: Do you believe Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon was a political newb? The only way your theory survives 10 milliseconds is if you answer "Yes." Go look up the election returns from both of Nixon's successful elections and notice the presence of the Dixicrat. So your theory is Nixon, a Progressive / Liberal governor from California, had a devious plan that he thought could get Southern racist Democrats to switch their vote to him vs both the Democrat and the Dixicrat and do it in sufficient number to carry a single State somewhere down South. Remember, the Electoral College is winner take all.

              No, the Old South switched Democrat to Republican as the old Yeller Dog Democrats died off and air conditioning brought millions of snowbirds in. As for the switch in Black voting, many have tried to tackle that one, best explanation I have seen is Lyndon Johnson didn't change his mind when he switched from fillibustering civil rights legislation, he simply changed tactics. A civil rights bill + The Great Society simply bought the loyalty of most blacks and reenslaved them on a new plantation... but now they vote for their own oppression. A respected biography of Johnson quotes him as saying he "would have those nIgg*rs voting Democrat for two hundred years." He might be proven wrong but his prediction is on track for now.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 02 2017, @07:17PM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 02 2017, @07:17PM (#576107) Homepage Journal

      People voting for pieces of shit is as reliable as gravity. Though it's partially because they rarely have another choice.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 2) by Geezer on Monday October 02 2017, @08:52PM

        by Geezer (511) on Monday October 02 2017, @08:52PM (#576185)

        Bingo. You win the internet.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:38PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:38PM (#576172)

    Gun control is about political power, not actually about keeping people safe.

    Except it seems to work in places where they have it. You know, France, Germany, Japan. And before you start listing "terrorists massacres with AKs",

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate [wikipedia.org]

    US - 3.60 murders per 100k
    France - 0.21 murders per 100k
    Germany - 0.07 murders per 100k
    Japan - 0

    And Germany has 30 guns per 100 people. Same as Canada. So not exactly no guns, like Japan. But US has 112 guns per 100 people - more guns than people. And there is no control who has guns. So, you get what you get.

    But yes, it is much too late to institute to institute gun control in US and actually reap benefit today. If you instituted gun control like in Germany today in US, it would take decades to get the numbers lower... too many unstable people have access to guns in US already.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @09:23PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @09:23PM (#576206)

      Dead is dead, regardless of how it happens. That you would imply otherwise, by using "gun deaths" to imply that death is different depending on how one arrived at that state is misleading, deceitful, and vile.

      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:41AM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:41AM (#576387) Homepage Journal

        That's so true! There are a lot, a lot of ways to kill a bunch of people. Before they go on a helicopter ride, you could loosen the bolts to the rotors. A helicopter has two rotors. You do them both to make sure. You loosen them both. The helicopter goes up, the rotors come off, the helicopter comes down. Everyone dies! This isn't the time to talk about gun control. For many reasons, this isn't the time. 🇺🇸

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by jmorris on Monday October 02 2017, @10:24PM (8 children)

      by jmorris (4844) on Monday October 02 2017, @10:24PM (#576265)

      Take out our urban hellholes full of semi civilized orcs who are encouraged to shoot each other up by their Democrat overlords so they can harvest the sorrow for power, compare the numbers again. And don't worry, Europe is importing enough diversity they will soon experience the 'benefits' of a vibrant population.

      And I think you refuted your own argument with the last line of your post. The number of guns in the U.S. has been high since before the Founder's told the Brits to bugger themselves but our murder rate only went insane in the modern Progressive era. Why was Dodge City safer per capita than our nation's capital today? Why do you think we have so many more unstable people? Forget gun control, try rebuilding a civilization capable of generating stable citizens again. The problem is people control.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 02 2017, @10:58PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 02 2017, @10:58PM (#576286) Homepage Journal

        Damn, out of mod points. That one needs to be +5 Bitchslap.

        --
        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @11:53PM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @11:53PM (#576312)

        Ugh, you fools have zero concept of how seriously politicians took the race war. It is clearly evident from your earlier post where you try and spin Nixon's actions as NOT racist or something. The real answer is that cities grew rapidly and cultural warfare resulted in minorities without real life opportunities. This resulted in the urban ghettos, and the rest is history. You're a racist piece of shit jmo, and TMB are you encouraging this shit or does the +5 bitchslap go up against jmo's head?

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:58AM (5 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:58AM (#576371) Homepage Journal

          The black community has multiple problems, I agree. What you don't seem to get are they're not the ones you're being told.

          70-80% of black children are raised by a single parent. This has the single highest correlation with future poverty of any indicator. So if you actually give a damn about The Black Man, do something about a culture that's breeding piece of shit child abandoners en masse.

          --
          My rights don't end where your fear begins.
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:29AM (4 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:29AM (#576382)

            Well if the cops didn't lock half of them up and shoot another quarter, the numbers would likely be better.

            • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:40AM (3 children)

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:40AM (#576386) Homepage Journal

              No, they wouldn't. The ones in jail don't account for near the number of derelict parents. And if they want to stay out of jail, it's easy. Stop being a criminal.

              --
              My rights don't end where your fear begins.
              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:28PM (2 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:28PM (#576717)

                Culture war, you seem to not understand... There has been a staggering amount of effort put into keeping minorities down, very specifically black communities. What you are doing now is victim blaming, "get them to shape up!" without addressing the issues that politicians and white communities created. Your blindness on this issue is awful.

                • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 03 2017, @09:31PM (1 child)

                  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 03 2017, @09:31PM (#576790) Homepage Journal

                  There has been a staggering amount of effort put into keeping minorities down, very specifically black communities.

                  Bullshit. Prove your assertion. Nobody since the 60s has actually been kept down in any meaningful way by anyone but themselves and Democrats.

                  What you are doing now is victim blaming...

                  Bullshit again. The single biggest indicator of future poverty is growing up under a single parent, which 70-80% of black children do. That is not the white man's, or anyone else's, fault. Neither is a crime rate of 3x the national average.

                  They are not victims of anyone but themselves and the shit-stains who sell them on victimhood.

                  You know what's really fun? You're probably going to call me a racist for seeing them as equals and refusing to coddle them, then think yourself morally correct for seeing them as inferior and in need of your help.

                  --
                  My rights don't end where your fear begins.
                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @09:21PM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @09:21PM (#577193)

                    I can see the argument that promoting single-mother households for black people by means of tax-extorted welfare is indeed promoting poverty among such people. When last I'd checked, that's exactly what welfare, Section 8, SNAP, WIC, etc. were all subsidizing: single black mothers with many children.

                    Many single black mothers with many children does not a rosy picture for black-skinned people paint. While mothers may not have been victims per se, their children most certainly seem to be.