Active shooter on Las Vegas strip.

[arboachg]

Funny to see my Twitter feed explode around this.

It's just one guy shooting in one US city. Normally I don't see this much reaction.

Oh, I dunno, perhaps it blew up due to shootings that result in 20+ dead, 100+ injured aren't all that common, all things considered.

[deadman1]

And apparently he has had run ins with the police before.

Yep now a bunch of tweets about how Stephen Paddock has a criminal past as a sex offender.

Not sure about that though, the sex offender stephen paddock looks to be in his 40s maybe 50s whereas the shooter is 60+

[Orbitus]

Yep now a bunch of tweets about how Stephen Paddock has a criminal past as a sex offender.

There is a Stephen Paddock from South Carolina that these people are confusing him with. But he isn't 64. http://www.homefacts.com/offender-de...s-Paddock.html They probably got it from that.

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Not sure about that though, the sex offender stephen paddock looks to be in his 40s maybe 50s whereas the shooter is 60+

I got that information that he has had run ins with the police from NBC reporting about it.

[Surfd]

Banning firearms would take quite some time before it would make a difference.

Can you imagine a us where the vast majority of police are unarmed?

In what magical unicorn fairy land do you imagine that proper gun control somehow equates to cops with no guns? Are you proposing that if gun control was enacted, they would take them away from the military too? Fucking idiot.


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Typical Monday in America. To be fair to the shooter if I was at a country music festival I'd be homocidal too.

I like it how the first douche to make an inappropriate comment on a serious matter accidentally came out of the closet in his post.


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[Draco-Onis]

No, you can not. Pick up a dictionary and look it up.

Actually there are several meanings including use of terror as a means of coercion, you are probably just sticking with google's top result.

[Dreadlack]

In what magical unicorn fairy land do you imagine that proper gun control somehow equates to cops with no guns? Are you proposing that if gun control was enacted, they would take them away from the military too? Fucking idiot.

He is imagining most of Europe where our cops are fighting criminals and gangs with sticks and stones. Because that's totally what gun control means.

[deadman1]

That would be Stephen Paddock, from Bristol in the UK.

Once again, chill with the witch hunts, everyone.

Actually hes from South Carolina, still not Nevada though.

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I like it how the first douche to make an inappropriate comment on a serious matter accidentally came out of the closet in his post.

Is there something wrong with being gay?

[deadman1]

I got that information that he has had run ins with the police from NBC reporting about it.

Fair enough, last I saw they were reporting that he had "no criminal records"

[Huehuecoyotl]

Trump doesn't seem to have made a statement yet. Is he waiting to find out the ethnicity of the shooter and victims before he decides what he thinks?

[GreenJesus]

Terrorism goal is to kill as many people as possible which result in people getting terrorised.

I'm pretty sure the shooter here did not mean to terrorise people. He just wanted to shoot people in the head.

You see your flawless logic?

Terrorism is also holding hostages to force a government to do something. That doesn't require killing anyone.

[Draco-Onis]

Oh, I dunno, perhaps it blew up due to shootings that result in 20+ dead, 100+ injured aren't all that common, all things considered.

It's not the first and it won't be the last American society decided a long time ago we are okay with mass shootings regardless of body count. I expect this not to be worth covering within 2-4 days because the public really doesn't want to do anything about it.

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Actually hes from South Carolina, still not Nevada though.

My apologies, seems there's numerous Stephen Paddocks into kiddie fiddling, this is one of the first results that comes up for me when searching Stephen Paddock

[GreenJesus]

It's not the first and it won't be the last American society decided a long time ago we are okay with mass shootings regardless of body count. I expect this not to be worth covering within 2-4 days because the public really doesn't want to do anything about it.

There is nothing you really can do about it though.. The gun he used was already illegal.

[chazus]

It's not the first and it won't be the last American society decided a long time ago we are okay with mass shootings regardless of body count. I expect this not to be worth covering within 2-4 days because the public really doesn't want to do anything about it.

Nobody is 'okay' with it. It's also not something easily solved, either. There isn't a law that can be passed that can just 'fix' this.

[deadman1]

It's not the first and it won't be the last American society decided a long time ago we are okay with mass shootings regardless of body count. I expect this not to be worth covering within 2-4 days because the public really doesn't want to do anything about it.

A person with an illegal firearm illegally murdering people isn't going to be prevented by banning weapons. The same way concert bombings aren't going to be stopped by banning bombs in the UK.

How can you ban a weapon that is already banned?

[Very Tired]

Trump doesn't seem to have made a statement yet. Is he waiting to find out the ethnicity of the shooter and victims before he decides what he thinks?

It's around 6 AM in Washington. Old man is asleep.

[Orbitus]

Trump doesn't seem to have made a statement yet. Is he waiting to find out the ethnicity of the shooter and victims before he decides what he thinks?

Would be a first for him if it happens.

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Oh it's just a mass shooting then. Thank god it's not a terrorist attack.

P.S. don't take away my guns

What does the name matter?

Mass shooting or Terrorism, people still died, does it being called a terror attack make that better or worse? Does it matter at all?