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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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Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas
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"In my opinion, Richard Stallman wouldn't recognize terrorism if it
came up and bit him on his Internet."
-- Ross M. Greenberg
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 02 2017, @07:10PM (1 child)
Cops are a protected class of U.S. citizen with the ability to kill and have a reasonable expectation of getting away with it. They should certainly be considered heroes in a situation like this, even if they didn't do much of anything.
About 100 cops [odmp.org] have been killed in 2017, with around 700 killed by cops [washingtonpost.com]. So we can conclude that the life of a cop is seven times, or perhaps fourteen or seventy times more valuable than an ordinary citizen.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 02 2017, @09:32PM
Or we could conclude that cops are 1/7000 as likely to need shooting as your average citizen. See, misused numbers can mean anything you want them to. Except not really.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.