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It isn't all dreck like Garth Brooks or Miley's dad, Greta.
(I don't know any of Jason Aldean's stuff myself, but it's hard not to feel sorry for the guy over this. It's the very last way you'd want to get on the news as a working musician, isn't it?)

I shall await for motive. But it's very strange for a white man to go after country music. In my head right now, I am thinking that, country music is associated to right leaning folks, and right leaning folks is associated with Trump voters and shooter is left leaning who hated all the people who voted for Trump, thus he went to shoot em all. And then Trump will be blamed for this shooting for making people so angry and divided to this extent. My speculation and my guess.

Or may be just a beef against a specific band playing. And trying to ruin their concert.

Or a white Muslim..., they exist.

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Greta it makes no difference his motivation... he is mentally ill.... and we must institute stronger screening for gun owners to at least try to weed out people like this.

Butch

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No, he had a room in the Mandalay hotel/casino, on the 32nd floor. So he was a spree killer with some idea of style since those rooms run $100 a night for a king room.

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Why again are people allowed to own guns like this?

Or any guns at all?

This shooter was not in the military, if only the well regulated militia clause was enforced, this horrible shooting would not have occurred.

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Not familiar with the AK-47? Look at photos of Charlottesville, they were the rifles being carried by many Antifa

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I believe 82 died from Harvey.. and that was over several days.. this guy killed 59 (or more once the dust settles), probably in a matter of minutes..

interesting that he was 64... I wonder if they will ever find out why..

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Why again are people allowed to own guns like this?

Or any guns at all?

This shooter was not in the military, if only the well regulated militia clause was enforced, this horrible shooting would not have occurred.

There are a few reasons.

1. An armed populace is a last resort against tyranny.

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ORIGINAL: LadyDemura

Why again are people allowed to own guns like this?

Or any guns at all?

This shooter was not in the military, if only the well regulated militia clause was enforced, this horrible shooting would not have occurred.

There are a few reasons.

1. An armed populace is a last resort against tyranny.

It's also the best defense against not getting shot by psychopaths.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/10/02/how-far-right-trolls-named-the-wrong-man-as-the-las-vegas-shooter/

Geary Danley was not the gunman in Las Vegas who killed at least 50 people late Sunday. But for hours on the far-right Internet, would-be sleuths scoured Danley’s Facebook likes, family photographs and marital history to try to “prove” that he was.

Danley, according to an archived version of a Facebook page bearing that name, might have been married to a Marilou Danley. Police were looking for a woman by that name in the hours after the shooting, but later said they did not think she was involved. To name someone as a mass murderer based on that evidence would be irresponsible and dangerous. But that’s exactly what a portion of the far-right Internet did overnight.

The briefest look at the viral threads and tweets falsely naming Geary Danley as the attacker makes it easy to guess why a bunch of right-wing trolls latched on to him: His Facebook profile indicated that he might be a liberal.

Authorities have since identified the gunman as Stephen Paddock, 64, who was later found dead in a hotel room on the Strip. His motives remain unknown. But the fake Danley story presented a complete, desirable package to the elements of the far-right Internet that spread it. That phony story quickly embedded itself into the algorithms of Google and Facebook, where sites promoting the rumor remained at the top of the results for anyone searching for Danley’s name.

In excited all-caps, one anonymous user on 4chan’s /pol/ board posted that Danley was a “REGISTERED DEMOCRAT!” The thread spread quickly, as did a crowdsourced wiki page about Danley on Everipedia that, according to its edit history, once said that “Geary opened fired [sic] on the 34th floor of the Mandalay Bay toward a concert happening across the street.”

The Everipedia article dedicated an entire section to what it alleged were Danley’s political views:
more at the link....

This narrative, backed by no evidence or confirmation of Danley’s involvement in the Las Vegas shooting, spread quickly. That Everipedia post had 77,000 views as of Monday morning, just hours after it was created. It has since been edited and no longer names Danley as the shooter. His personal photos, taken from Facebook, were still plastered all over the page.

But even as those rumors were thoroughly, conclusively debunked, this false narrative was picked up in the algorithms that, increasingly, have come to define a person’s public-facing identities. During a search I ran about 9 a.m. Monday, hours after the real shooting suspect — a different person — was identified, the entire first page of Google results for a search for Geary Danley’s full name were links to news sites, YouTube videos, message boards and even several /pol/ threads repeating the rumor about him. There was one exception: a link to Danley’s personal Facebook page. There were no links to debunkings or to any mainstream news outlets that had identified Paddock as the attacker.

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So how are they going to start talking about cover-ups, crisis actors and conspiracies when Trump is in the White House?
Is the 'deep state' trying to protect the left from retribution here?
Maybe Mueller has ordered a cover-up so that it won't hurt the Dems' election chances in 2020, hiding the fact that leftism is an evil ideology that makes people shoot up country music concerts, because....

It just makes so much sense.

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I am reading his details on CNN.

Rich dude, had money for anything he wanted. Checked in hotel since last Thursday. Had plenty of time to prepare. All weapons were purchased legally. Can't get his mental health records as those are off limits. No criminal records. The closest thing he has to criminal relations is that his father was a wanted man.

So really interesting, so sad if it forever remains a mystery why he did this.

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Yes, because all white men like and listen to country music? There's a stereotype that I can help put to grass.

Well, not all white men, but I consider country music an American White Men thing! It takes a thick white southern accent to sing a proper country song doesn't it?

There are always exceptions to genre.

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There are a few reasons.

1. An armed populace is a last resort against tyranny.

It's also the best defense against not getting shot by psychopaths.

I thought they'd given up on the tyrant line since the current guy regarding the constitution and bill of rights as a personal affront is a republican?

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Well, not all white men, but I consider country music an American White Men thing! It takes a thick white southern accent to sing a proper country song doesn't it?

There are always exceptions to genre.

No, it doesnt, there have been country singers from northern states, Canada, Australia and the UK.

Again, do you practice being this ignorant or is it natural?

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Yes, because all white men like and listen to country music? There's a stereotype that I can help put to grass.

Well, not all white men, but I consider country music an American White Men thing! It takes a thick white southern accent to sing a proper country song doesn't it?

There are always exceptions to genre.

No, it doesnt, there have been country singers from northern states, Canada, Australia and the UK.

Again, do you practice being this ignorant or is it natural?