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stui magpie wrote:ISIS have claimed responsibility saying he converted to Islam a few months ago. CIA is not buying it at the moment.
FOXNEWS are hoping.
In response to your pictorial link, Brendan O'Neill sums it up best.
Brendan O'Neill wrote:"My God, the glee online that the Las Vegas shooter is a white man. Fifty people are dead, you ghouls. And this massacre does precisely nothing to soften the horror of Islamic terrorism. This is awful and that is awful too. Also, stop calling things like this terrorism. Not all acts of mass murder are terrorism. Sometimes they are simply acts of mass murder. That's what Vegas looks like at the moment".
Brendan O'Neill wrote:"The rush to refer to mass shootings like that in Las Vegas as "terrorism" is deeply cynical. It's an attempt to take the heat off radical Islamism, to avert the public's gaze from the serious problem of Islamist terror by saying: "See, all sorts of people can be terrorists. Even white men. Especially white men, in fact." It purposefully dilutes the meaning of the word terrorism, so that it now just means horrible violence rather than ideological violence designed to corrode a society's sense of itself, in order to make us think there is nothing specific or even particularly serious about Islamist terror. It's just violence, like other kinds of violence, like the local weirdo with a gun and a mental problem: nothing to see here, move along. The amount of moral and intellectual energy that is now devoted to downplaying the problem of violent Islamism, and to discouraging frank discussion about it, is extraordinary. It's reached a level where observers respond almost with excitement to mass shootings because they spy in them another chance to distract attention from the Islamist issue"
Nothing will change in the US, today is another day. They will all pray and light candles and mourn the deaths but many will go out and buy a gun to protect themselves, which I just laugh at but Americans are dumb and are getting dumber. A guy on the 32nd floor on a building with a fully auto weapon shooting at you, good luck trying to shoot him back from ground level, with a revolver over that distance and even getting a shot close to him. It's easy to shoot at targets, it's real hard to shoot at a target that is shooting back at you especially rapid fire.
This guy clearly had along standing gun fetish, this wasn't a recent accumulation.
The missing piece at the moment is why he did this? Even lunatics have reasons, even if they only make sense to them. he'd clearly planned this for days if not weeks, he didn't just wake up in a bad mood or have a reaction to drugs or something, this was planned.
massive gambling debts seems most plausible but even then...........something missing from this puzzle.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
It is critically important for us to know whether we can call this a "terrorist act" or not: if it wasn't, then the "victims" aren't really "injured" or "dead".
Culprit wrote:Nothing will change in the US, today is another day. They will all pray and light candles and mourn the deaths but many will go out and buy a gun to protect themselves, which I just laugh at but Americans are dumb and are getting dumber. A guy on the 32nd floor on a building with a fully auto weapon shooting at you, good luck trying to shoot him back from ground level, with a revolver over that distance and even getting a shot close to him. It's easy to shoot at targets, it's real hard to shoot at a target that is shooting back at you especially rapid fire.
A sweeping Americans are dumb statement does nothing and is incorrect.
In fact if you kill off the republicans, gun control is a no brainer. (Joking of course, but look at the figures)
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