Obviously, the reason we all paid attention to the horrific headline is because the sheer amount of people killed is staggering.
But I remember just a couple of days ago; there were news reports of a shooting in Tennessee.
However, since "only" one woman was killed (her name was Melanie Smith), people mostly ignored the report:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/25/tennessee_church_shooting_leaves_one_dead_police_arrest_alleged_gunman.html
"The shooter, identified by police as 25-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson, had entered Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee, with two guns after fatally shooting a woman, identified as 39-year-old Melanie Smith, in the parking lot outside."
Point is, we've become so desensitized to gun violence we only pay attention when the amount of people killed rises over a certain threshold.
Problem is, the threshold keeps increasing. Last year for example, the Orlando night club shooting: where 49 people were killed. But now it's 59 innocent people killed. So it seems to me these homicidal/suicidal maniacs are copycats trying to outdo each other. & we're all in danger of being in their cross-hairs at one point or another.
& now ISIS is taking responsibility. Probably because the killing of innocent people (especially all the women at the show) has all the hallmarks of a vicious terrorist attack.
However, I'm just paraphrasing here, but I heard MSNBC analyst Jim Cavanaugh say something along the lines of; he believes Paddock (the homicidal-suicidal maniac) was probably in debt to the casinos, & so he decided to inflict horrific damage on the city of Las Vegas as revenge.
And it might be as simple as that.
When before, a person like that would just kill himself, now in an effort to gain "notoriety", they use assault rifles to take as many innocent people as they can before they commit suicide.
When it comes to these suicidal perpetrators, past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, & since we're "drowning" in guns, I'm afraid a mass shooting will happen again.
And the politicians in charge of our safety will just keep saying "thought and prayers". Which is gonna mean anything to the future victims of the next copycat homicidal-suicidal maniac.
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