Bill Maher brought up an interesting point last night during the panel portion of his show. If the Vegas shooter had been a Muslim, there would be talk now of the Muslim ban. If the shooter had been Hispanic, then there would be talk of a wall. But because the shooter was white, it was sort of like...gee, I wonder what happened there?
When shootings happen, we can really see the blatant racism in our country.
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I'm waiting to see if they can actually find some kind of motive. I'm guessing there wasn't one, other than "angry, aggrieved, misogynistic older white male after midlife crisis, who has been inured to death and violence by a lifelong fascination with guns, which act like a drug to cheapen life and make other people less than human, just a moving target to mow down."
It would be interested to look at his blood panel to see how much lead was in his bloodstream, and whether there was any brain damage due to lead exposure. Spending too much time in shooting ranges breathing lead dust and noxious smoke from all those guns firing has a deleterious effect on mental health.
The smoke from the guns firing was reportedly how the cops found the guy -- a smoke detector went off in his room from all the gunsmoke.
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