Shooting at Las Vegas casino

That didn't take long.

 

You're right. It was friendly fire.

Bet if this happened in Paris and the shooter's name was Ali bin Hussain we aren't arguing this.

 

Because ISIS would have taken credit for it by now, for one thing.

 

There have been a few anti-IRS types, right? Didn't one guy fly a small plane into a regional IRS office?

 

You rang?

 

To be fair, the four bolded words should always leave us skeptical until we get confirmation. Broadcast news functions well to bring us immediate coverage of crises, but the reporting is invariably flawed until things settle down.

 

The Scalise shooting wasn't terrorism. It was an attempt to assassinate a political figure. Those are entirely different things.

Terrorism is designed to scare the shit out of the general public. The Vegas shooting is very likely some form of terrorism, by the actual definition of the word, unless he had some specific grudge against people at that music festival.

 

Australia's prime minister forced the passage of sweeping gun control legislation following a mass shooting that killed 35 in 1996. There has not been a mass shooting in Australia since:

 

Including a political motive?

 

Aside from a lack of political will, technology is going to make any sort of new gun control damn near impossible.

This "Ghost Gun" Machine Now Makes Untraceable Metal Handguns

 

I'm assuming there's going to be one, on some level.

 

Don't be obtuse. Terrorism is about motive.