Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead

[Shell B]

I mentioned this particular shooting to Tibs this morning when I heard, not because of the height, but because of the lack of obvious motivation, and the later diagnosis of a brain tumor. I would not be surprised to learn that this man had something severely wrong with him that wasn't just pure evil. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if he was just evil either.

The Kent state shooter back in the 60s had a brain tumor. Still a moot point to me. 

The sane need to stop allowing media to use motive as a distraction.

When a person with a brain defect gets a gun, it is still an issue of access.
When a criminal gets a firearm it is still an issue of access.
When a mentally ill person gets one like the Va Tech shooter, it is still an issue of access.
When a racist like Roof gets one, it is still an issue of access.
When a Muslim, like the Pulse shooter gets one, it is still an issue of access.


And even without taking mass shootings into account, the bulk of firearm deaths happen in the home or with someone the victim knew.

We have 36,000 firearm deaths per year on average. Mostly suicides, accidental, and domestic violence, between spouses, dating and neighbor on neighbor. 

So while funding mental health issues is important, ease of access is also a problem.

Sorry. I don't see how any of that is relevant to what I was talking about. I'm just noting similarities I see between two mass shootings. Any inference about legislation is yours alone. I'm not getting into that debate here. It won't make an iota of difference.

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Well, There's this....

"The Islamic State terror group took credit for the Las Vegas shooting, saying the gunman converted to Islam months ago, but provided no evidence to back up the claim."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/02/las...-evil.html

Fox.