Feelings about vegas shooter

Everyone keeps saying this when there's a white guy that open fires on civilians. I don't get it. Who is saying this stuff? Is it a few people saying it or is it the vast majority because I don't see the vast majority of people claiming he was mentally unstable.

That aside, I don't see the vast majority of people claiming a black shooter open fired due to their blackness.

There's also a difference between blaming someone's race and blaming their religion, Muslim beliefs do support the idea in violence to non-believers, that's sonething that can be blamed on their religion.

I also don't see people waving people a pass if theyve committed crimes when when claimed to be mentally unstable.

This view that whites are given a pass for crimes while blacks are blamed for their skin is becoming a meme at this point. Lol.

IKR
wheres the logic in their bullshit?!?!
This is true evidence!!!

There’s a clear difference in the way this kind of incident is treated and the way it would be treated if it were actually associated with Islam or Muslims.It would be instantly called an act of domestic or even international terrorism; it wouldn’t be individualized, but collectivized to the entire Muslim community or faith of Islam.In many cases when there is a white mass-shooter or domestic terrorist, we get personal details about them, like the reports that the Las Vegas shooter was a country music fan, But how often do we learn personal details about terrorists and mass killers, or even street criminals in the US, when they are not white? Who gets humanized in news coverage is important ― and telling.
Just hours after the mass shooting in Vegas, the media was calling Paddock a “lone wolf.” Yet there are clear disparities in who receives this label: After Muslim people commit acts of violence, critics often point to Islam as the root of the problem, and when black people are involved in shootings, they point to the myth of ”black-on-black crime.”
When white people commit mass violence, however, there is often an emphasis on the fact they were acting alone. The implicit assumption is that they are in no way responsible for representing the larger demographic group they belong to.

What’s more, the response to the Las Vegas shooter follows another familiar pattern: White violence is often explained away as a mental health issue.

Trump reportedly already called the Las Vegas shooter “demented,” the Las Vegas mayor called him a “crazed lunatic,” and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) asked for mental health reform in response to the attack.

While some perpetrators of terror attacks indeed had histories of mental illness, the problem with consistently portraying white perpetrators as mentally ill is not only that it excuses them to some extent for their actions, but also that it prevents the public from calling for more appropriate policy solutions to the wider, systemic problem of white men and gun violence.

Though shooting into a crowd of thousands certainly terrorized those who were present, the Las Vegas shooter has not been officially labeled a terrorist.

When it comes to mass violence by white people, news outlets have repeatedly been criticized for their slowness to label attacks by white perpetrators as “terrorism,” while they’re more likely to use the label when attackers are perceived as nonwhite ― and specifically, Muslim.

Part of the problem is that officially labeling a violent event is complicated. For officials to label an act as terrorism, the perpetrator has to be motivated by political or ideological beliefs.

But motive isn’t always easy to determine ― and even when it seems clear, the results aren’t always as expected: Many people condemned the government for not labeling Dylann Roof a terrorist after he killed nine black people in a Charleston church in 2015, even though he said he was there “to shoot black people,” according to witnesses.

Exactly rose, as soon as I heard he turned the gun on himself I thought exactly the same thing!!!!! FUCKIN COWARD!!!!

dont yall thank he done us a service by offin hisself rather than makin yet another clown show?

fuck i goes awaya few months and shit falls apart

aint there enough clown shows?

He was a bit different to the average I guess, I agree, I understand people go through shit in life, we all do at times but for gods sake those actions are complete unacceptable and physotic, even if people going through crap, there is counseling services out there that may be able to help, just absolutely disgusting to decide to start firing at a bunch of random poor innocent people, I mean maybe he could have been helped had he reached out but if the choice was of what he did and to take his own life obviously taking his own would be preffered, which then would be reported as a sad story on the news.

Exactly. There are too many people out there that need to be killed to justify shooting at random people.

To answer your question, you can't prevent these things. Life is precious and precarious. Live each day to the fullest

Whatever laws change I think it's going to take generations to change America's ingrained gun culture. It's a young country that was founded (invaded and occupied!) with firearms, so people own guns as casually as they own cars.
One thing I've often heard NRA types quote is the "if guns are outlawed only criminals will have guns" but this incident has made me realise that's a decent option looked at logically.. These mass killings are never done by 'criminals' but invariably erstwhile law-abiding citizens with no more than a parking ticket to their name.

another eurodick heard from

Carlton, restricting freedom is not the answer. We need less gun laws not more. Criminals do not give a fuck about laws. It's illegal to break out a hotel window and start randomly firing into crowds. I guess this asshole failed to comply with those laws as well.

You should help humanity out and off yourself while you are at it. One less sucky person around.

Wow!!! That’s a really sad and disgusting attitude. :-(

Who was that directed at?

Funny how they're almost always alt-right neoconservatives though.