Shooting at Country Music Festival in Las Vegas. UPDATE: 61 dead, up to 515+ injured

[Unknown Poster]

I think dude just hated the system, probably had a distinct for other white folks since he married and dated Asian.

He was also trying to target events that attracted young people, women, and minorities though. I just think this guy was psycho and wanted to kill people just for fun. Which is the absolute worst. They just want to see people suffer.

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Heather Murren, the wife of the CEO of @MandalayBay where the attack took place worked for the Obama administration in 2016.

 

[Stir Fry]

Those were fellow anglo saxons and not n***ers getting shot.

Put them in a ghetto and see their "civility" crumble. They won't know what to do with themselves

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

valium is not making you shoot anyone.

not at all

 

[Arithmetic]

The cognitive dissonance of the third sentence.

"law-abiding madmen"

 

[scarlxrd]

55+ Are still in critical condition

Wouldn't surprise me if final death toll was 75

Honestly didn't even know that. Damn it most likely will be 70+ when it's all said and done.

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

Gun brehs, is it possible for one man to wound 500 + ppl?

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[FrederickDouglas]

valium is not making you shoot anyone.

Not Valium's immediate effects itself.

But Valium tolerance and withdrawal will make you kill a motherfukka.

Again not an excuse, but I'm just sayin'.

Benzos had me actually plotting on nikkas so I know from experience.

 

[HDKG_]

Something tells me if a rap concert got shot up like this and his name was Tyrone we would be seeing a whole different narrative in the media.....

No one deserves to die like this. But the comments would be much different. They would be saying how we had it coming and other nonsense.

you already know. it would be about the "violent content" of the music blah blah blah might even incorporate Kaep kneeling into it

 

[jimihendrixheadband]

boston

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Honestly I think this sick cracker just wanted to hunt the ultimate game. He was sick of hunting simple elks and deers so decided in his sick mind he would try to do this and see if he could get away with it.

Some people are just sick they don't need a reason or motive

 

[FrederickDouglas]

you already know. it would be about the "violent content" of the music blah blah blah might even incorporate Kaep kneeling into it

They're already doing that shyt.

They're spinning the "heroism of the police" into an indictment of protests against police brutality.

 

[heart]

I was devastated about Las Vegas — but quietly relieved that the shooter was white


Minorities in America know that there will be fallout if a killer is black, Hispanic or Muslim.

By Zack Linly
October 5 at 6:00 AM

Zack Linly is a poet, performer, freelance writer, community organizer and activist living in Atlanta.

On Monday morning, I woke up to the news that innocent people had been killed in another senseless mass shooting. At least 50 people had been killed after a gunman opened fire on thousands attending a country music festival in Las Vegas. And before I could feel fear, grief or despair, I felt relief that the killer was white.

The vast majority of mass shootings in this country are committed by white men, yet the stereotype of the angry, violent white male has virtually no pull on the social standing or political power of the white male collective.
Disgruntled white men are almost unanimously recognized as the face of maniacs killing at random, yet whenever there’s a new tragedy, it’s we black and brown people who rush frantically to Google, hoping the shooter doesn’t look like us.

After the news broke, I, along with millions of other black folks and people of color, felt that all-too-familiar anxiety. It’s a discomfort white people have no real frame of reference for, making it easy for them to write it off as racial paranoia. But it’s real for us who fit outside the default for cultural and social normalcy. If a white person commits a crime, no one suggests that white people in general are criminally inclined, or that the crime says something larger about whiteness. Obviously, the same cannot be said for black people.

Our relief that we don’t resemble the killer comes with feelings of conflict and guilt: People are dead and families are devastated. I doubt many people of color were celebrating and high-fiving each other because we didn’t look like the bad guy. But I know that if the shooter had been black, the national conversation would somehow “straw-man” its way into being about Black Lives Matter and black criminality. God help us if it had happened at a rap concert. “Black-on-black crime” would’ve been on the tongues of every demagogue blowhard with a platform, and black athletes wouldn’t be able to kneel in protest of police brutality again without having a massacre thrown in their faces. (In fact, Fox News managed to get in a swipe at black NFL players anyway.)

If he had been Hispanic, it would be the reason “we can’t let these people in our country.” Whether he was actually an illegal immigrant would’ve been obfuscated into irrelevancy within the first day of reporting, as pundits bleated about massive deportation and building walls (logistics not included).

If the shooter was Middle Eastern or Muslim, the rhetoric would pretty much write itself at this point. President Trump could add half the Middle East to his travel ban list and justify it through 24-hour news coverage of fleeing survivors. It wouldn’t matter if the killer was a U.S. citizen, born and raised in Vegas or if there were no ties found to any known terrorist organization. I doubt he’d be granted a descriptor with a positive connotation like “lone wolf,” as if he were the protagonist in a classic Western; I doubt any editor would find that term appropriate.

But white people don’t need to fear their movements for justice being undermined or the whole of their demographic feeling the pressure to answer for the crimes of a few. They may have to endure a couple weeks of anti-white nationalist think pieces(which they’re free to ignore) showing up in their news feeds when someone gets killed at a Nazi rally, but their very existence will never be viewed as a threat. They don’t rush to their search engines after breaking news of a mass killing to make sure the assailant isn’t white. And when he so often is, they face no persecution as a result.

Even the fact that so many news outlets are calling what happened in Las Vegas “the deadliest shooting in U.S. history” goes to show how much race is embedded in our responses to crime. These outlets overlook the deadliest massacres in this country’s history, which all involved black victims: the havoc brought down in Tulsa in 1921 (300 murdered by a white mob); in Phillips County, Ark., in 1919 (an estimated 100-237 lynched); in Colfax, La., (150 killed); and many more atrocities where black victims were slaughtered by white psychopaths.

Even immortalizing the Vegas shooting by naming it the deadliest we’ve ever seen won’t stop white terrorism from being treated as more than anecdotal and isolated. If the shootings at Sandy Hook and Charleston have shown us anything, it’s that even the most heinous crimes imaginable, when committed by members of the white majority, don’t inspire much of a lasting sense of urgency. We don’t militarize airports and ban entire populations from U.S. entry the way we do after even a whiff of “Islamic terrorism.” We don’t enact preventive measures. We don’t seem to do much at all.

What I know is that on Monday, I found out that innocent people died, and I felt relief. It didn’t feel good, but I felt free in the way the white majority — the default — gets to feel naturally, regardless of what color the shooter is.

This is why it’s always about race. Even when it’s not.

I think every minority felt like that, especially those of middle east background. We would be hearing this is the largest attack on Americans since 9/11, etc...

Maybe this is a wake up call to the c00ns and the whites in the country who swear they don't see race. We a have total different narrative if paddock is a few shades darker.

Again I don't care about the any of the victims political views. Nobody deserves to be gunned down like that but the contrarian in me again know the news narrative is different if that's 500+ mexians, Arabs, or even worse blacks.

I hate looking at stuff from that perspective but society says it is always about race even when it's not unfortunately. I saw so many whites wearing TM Halloween costumes...

 

[southpawstyle]

Not Valium's immediate effects itself.

But Valium tolerance and withdrawal will make you kill a motherfukka.

Again not an excuse, but I'm just sayin'.

Benzos had me actually plotting on nikkas so I know from experience.

My dude quit benzos cold turkey and went crazy talking about he was gonna kill himself. My sister ran to his place to talk him down but police already surrounded the area. Good thing they only found the tent for sick plants. He was never the same tho.