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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:What hope for the future? Re:What hope for the future? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @09:17PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @09:17PM (#576202)

  Democracy is going out, too dangerous to let the little people have a say in how society is run.

  Such a silly thing to say, waving one's historical ignorance about like that, with claims that democracies allow the little people to have a say in how society is run... (Hint: there's a reason the United States of America's first form of government was emphatically NOT a democracy, but a representative republic where the republic was to be "bound by chains" of a constitution which was a list of the only things said republic could do.)
   

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• Re:What hope for the future? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @11:46PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @11:46PM (#576310)

  Such a silly assumption to make, are you perhaps related to a horse?

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