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Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas

posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly

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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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:43PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:43PM (#576176)

    You have apparently not read any of the correspondence of the founding fathers. They most certainly DID intend that if/when the government turned tyrannical, the people should rise up and destroy that government.

    Except if you try to do that with guns, you end up with Syria. If you do it without guns, you end up with something like Russia in 1990. Because the *ARMY* has much bigger guns than you can ever hope to have. IF the ARMY doesn't switch side away from government, you are fucked anyway. So might as well stop your uprising when you realize the ARMY doesn't want to go against the government.

    The point of 2nd amendment was to thwart British invasion. Maybe you guys should realize that the British, they ain't coming!

    PS. The Swiss have something similar to 2nd amendment, similar reason. Lots of people are even *expected* to have guns at home. Yet their gun control seems to prevent US style idiots.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Monday October 02 2017, @09:08PM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Monday October 02 2017, @09:08PM (#576190) Journal

    Machiavelli explains the use and threat of a large standing army very well..
    http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1232 [upenn.edu]
    Admittedly, he's describing it from the perspective of holding power, but opressing people is just the flip side.

    --
    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @09:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @09:59PM (#576240)

    Except if you try to do that with guns, you end up with Syria. If you do it without guns, you end up with something like Russia in 1990. Because the *ARMY* has much bigger guns than you can ever hope to have. IF the ARMY doesn't switch side away from government, you are fucked anyway. So might as well stop your uprising when you realize the ARMY doesn't want to go against the government.

    What does that have to do with the intentions of the founding fathers? Nothing.