Vegas shooting

[RED-DOG]

Guns don't kill people....

Las Vegas shooting: 50 people killed in Mandalay Bay attack


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41466116

[nirvana]

Just soul destroying reading social media comments on this. Most people worried about labels and reinforcing their own perspectives.  World is full of shituations at the moment..guess it always was.

[Marky147]

Just tragic

[tonytats]

Driving around Phoenix n Scottsdale with a friend who lives there ,it's traffic mayhem big queues ,undertaking ,overtaking ,speeding ,crawling along yet not one horn blown off , or the wanker sign etc
I asked him whys there no road rage ?
He put his fingers together in the shape of a gun n said people carry guns !

[tikay]

Click to see full-size image.

[TightEnd]

Number of Americans killed on battlefields in all wars in history: 1,396,733

Killed by firearms in the US since 1968: 1,516,863

(NYT)

[TightEnd]

The Las Vegas gunman had 19 rifles in his hotel room and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, an official said

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-shooting.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

[4KSuited]

Number of Americans killed on battlefields in all wars in history: 1,396,733

Killed by firearms in the US since 1968: 1,516,863

(NYT)

Amazing. But when you look at the math(s), it's "only" 40,000 firearm deaths per annum.

[Knottikay]

Number of Americans killed on battlefields in all wars in history: 1,396,733

Killed by firearms in the US since 1968: 1,516,863

(NYT)

The most interesting fact I have seen this week, thank you. I am sure Trump will be able to add to them figures......both figures.

[tikay]

The state of gun violence in the US - explained in 18 charts.

I'm not sure how balanced it is, you can do all sorts of weird things with stats & graphs, but it's (arguably) quite interesting.

[Marky147]

This will go down well with the NRA.

[Doobs]

This will go down well with the NRA.

They happily ignore tens of thousands of deaths every year.  Think they'll manage to ignore a video.

[4KSuited]

Yeh, Bowling For Columbine has been in the charity shops for ages. Worth watching, if only to see the character assassination of Chuck Heston. I knew he was in the John Wayne camp of politics, but he was at another level.

[DropTheHammer]

Dan Bilzerian getting a lot of coverage in the mainstream media regarding social media criticism for running away, rather than sticking around to help like a lot of of ex-vets did. Looks like he tried to save face by saying he was going back to get a load of guns, and then returning.

[Doobs]

Dan Bilzerian getting a lot of coverage in the mainstream media regarding social media criticism for running away, rather than sticking around to help like a lot of of ex-vets did. Looks like he tried to save face by saying he was going back to get a load of guns, and then returning.

I don't care how many medals someone has, but it is pretty ridiculous to criticise someone for running away from that.  I am sure it is what the police would advise in the circumstances.  It must have been absolutely terrifying.