On a more serious note, Trump initially said the hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico, which is a territory of the USA, did not deserve substantial emergency aid, because Puerto Rico is drowning in debt: “Puerto Rico Deals With Another Storm: A Presidential Twitter Tantrum” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3d_rp7zPHU). Keep in mind Trump has a history of using his decadent inheritance to hire lawyers who create shell corporations that privatize Trump’s large gains and socialize his larger debts. Trump’s hypocrisy is bigger, deeper, and saltier than the “water, big water, ocean water” that surrounds Puerto Rico, which actually borders the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
Trump received lots of criticism for his negligence of Puerto Rico, thus, he changed his plan, visited the devastate island, and said Puerto Rico will receive lots of aid, debt forgiveness, and debt assistance. If given a fair chance, then Puerto Rico could easily become vastly more productive than con-artist Trump’s business scams. Puerto Rico could start off as a cheap source of agricultural products and industrial products. Over the long term, Puerto Rico’s economy could gradually advance forward. On the other hand, time is running out on Trump.
On mainland USA, the Las Vegas shooting by Stephen Paddock was the worse mass shooting in the US according to the US government and mainstream media. However, this record depends on how you define mass shooting and the definition’s time frame. You could make an argument that worse mass shootings in the US have occurred many decades ago:
* “The largest mass shooting in American History is in fact the Wounded Knee Massacre [of December 29, 1890], where hundreds of Lakota were slaughtered by the [US] government [soldiers,] [because the Native Americans refused to be disarmed by the US government]” (http://12160.info/page/the-largest-mass-shooting-in-american-history-is-in-fact-the-woun)
* On 1864 Nov 29, the Colorado US Volunteer Cavalry included 675 men who killed and mutilated 70 to 163 Native Americans in which two-thirds were women and children: “Sand Creek massacre” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre).
* 1857 Sept 7 to 11, the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon-train (which consisted of men, women, and children) was repeatedly attacked by the Utah Territorial Militia, which were from a Mormon community. An unknown number of the Mormon militia persuaded some Paiute Native Americans to join the attack, because the Mormon militia secretly planned to blame the Native Americans for the attack. The Mormon militia and Native Americans killed at least 120 members of the Baker-Fancher emigrants: “Mountain Meadows Massacre” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre). This attack was due to Mormon bigotry and paranoia against other Christian denominations and “outside” white Americans. The attack eventually led to dangerous negotiations between Mormon communities and the federal government for the creation of the Mormon state of Utah.
Anyhow, the Las Vegas shooting will most likely be followed up by another mass shooting in the near future, because the US corporate-government and the average American either (a) tolerate mass shootings as a relatively minor drawback of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment or (b) struggle to understand the criminal mind, despite the high costs and bureaucratic maze of the US police state and the US court system plus the plentiful and expensive Hollyweirdo shows about law and order plus law enforcement (CHiPs, Blue Shields, Miami Vice, Lethal Weapon series, Cops, Blue Bloods, CSI and its spin-offs, NCIS and its spin-offs, Criminal Minds and its spin-offs, Forensic Files, etc).
On 2017 Oct 1 (Sun) night, during the Route 91 Harvest concert, the music stage was brightly lit, but the audience of 22,000 people was in the dark. This is a typical setup for concerts, live theaters, political debates, and other showcases. Stephen Paddock (white guy) was in room 135 on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, which was ~400 yards from the crowd. He used two windows to shoot at the crowd. He killed 59 people (which includes himself) and injured at least 520 people.
The murderous shooter timed his shots with the music probably to hide his attack: “Moment deadly Las Vegas shooting breaks out caught on camera” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPgZvB6cfbE). He used extra large magazines (50 rounds per magazine) and a bump-stock device to fire at fast rates for relatively long durations, but the bump-stock device decreases the shooter’s accuracy. To increase his accuracy, the shooter used at least one bipod and one telescopic sight: “What’s the bump fire stock that Las Vegas killer may have used?” (http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/03/whats-the-bump-fire-stock-that-the-vegas-killer-may-have-used-to-killed-59-people/). I’m guessing the shooter rested his body and rifle(s) on the ground, on top of stable furniture, against the wall, and/or upon other stable objects to improve his accuracy.
Initially, at least several police officers struggled to find the exact location of the shooter: “Police bodycam footage captures chaos as bullets rain down during Las Vegas massacre” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUyJylZVQ7w). The cops seemed to only have handguns that lacked the long-range accuracy to defeat the mass murderer.
His shooting created lots of noise and generated so much smoke that his hotel room’s fire alarm went off. This allowed the police to locate him. He committed suicide by shooting himself while the police broke through his hotel room door. The first 911 call was at 10:08 pm, and by 11:20 pm were blasting through the door to the shooter’s hotel room: “It Took Police 72 Minutes From First 911 Call to Locate Shooter” (https://www.nbcnews.com/card/it-took-police-72-minutes-first-911-call-breach-paddock-n806836).
Right after the mass shooting, very early reports said the police were searching for an older Asian woman, Marilou Danney (62 years old), who turned out to be a Filipino girlfriend of the mass shooter. Days before the mass shooting, the mass shooter sent her on vacation with $100,000 to the Philippines. Then the mass shooter used her identification to book the hotel room that was used for his mass shooting. There is the possibility the mass shooter purposely used his girlfriend’s identification to hide his mass-shooting crime. According to incomplete police reports, the mass shooter had plans to secretly escape from his mass-shooting crime. My guess is that he possibly hoped his girlfriend’s misused identification would confuse the police and give him just enough time to secretly escape and commit more crimes or live another life as someone else.
The shooter’s father was guilty of many criminal actions and other irresponsible decisions. The shooter did NOT have a criminal record, but he had a history of being antisocial, addicted to gambling, and obsessed with accumulating lots of guns, ammunition, and explosive ingredients. The shooter possibly had bad genes and/or bad influence from his father. The shooter had psychological problems and used psychiatric medication: “Las Vegas Strip shooter prescribed anti-anxiety drug in June” (https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/the-strip/las-vegas-strip-shooter-prescribed-anti-anxiety-drug-in-june/). Other mass shooters were also on psychiatric medication, which tends to have major side-effects.
An anonymous source used LiveLeak.com to publicize a bloody picture of Stephen Paddock’s suicide, and the graphic picture was popularized by the Twitter.com account of Alex Jones who is the creator of InfoWars.com: “Stephen Paddock ‘Death Photo’ Posted by Alex Jones [Graphic]” (http://heavy.com/news/2017/10/stephen-paddock-death-photo-blood-dead-picture-real-fake-hoax-graphic/).
Here are more pictures of the crime scene: “Vegas shooter's body is seen splayed on his hotel room floor next to assault rifles, ammo and a possible note - as it's revealed he hid TWO cameras in a room service cart and his door's peephole so he knew when SWAT were coming” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4944234/Two-23-rifles-inside-Stephen-Paddock-s-room.html).
The police said some of these pictures were leaked by at least one unknown person. The police are investigating this leak. The police are still searching for the mass shooter’s motivations. Gambling debt? Like father like son? Extremely anti-social tendencies? Psychological problems worsened by medication? Wanted to go out with a bang GTA style?
President Trampled-Care, Breitbart.com, and other related entities are misreporting, underreporting, and twisting the discussion about the Las Vegas mass shooting, because the horrific crime does not fit their preferences and self-worship. This is expected, because they think protests and riots by white supremacist and neo-Nazis are acceptable, but protesting black pro-athletes are unacceptable. They spend more time, effort, and resources on condemning the latter, but they provide a lot less indignation and a lot more excuses on the former.
On the popular website Reddit.com and other social websites, before the tangible evidence was publicly available, some commentators who support unPresidented Caw-Caw (Or is it cah-cah?) insisted the Las Vegas shooter was an ANTIFA member or a Muslim from the Middle East or Africa. They used their hypothesis to justify banning immigration from the Middle East and/or Africa, expelling all Muslims from America, installing harsh surveillance and espionage against all Muslims in America, attacking all Muslims who are probably terrorists, etc. Then the actual, but incomplete evidence strongly indicated the Las Vegas shooter was a white guy who worked alone.
Then the acolytes of the Jack-O-Lantern-in-chief insisted the mass-murdering white guy was probably the wrong suspect who was framed by the real killer who secretly escaped before the cops arrived, an ANTIFA member, a race-mixing communist who might have been manipulated by the Chicoms, a super soldier who was manipulated by George Soros and/or the deep state, a conspiracy by Hillary Clinton to take guns away from American patriots, a secretive member of Islamic terrorists, etc. Here is one example out of many: “The Donald community before and after learning the shooter was an old white man” (https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe/comments/73x7qv/the_donald_community_before_and_after_learning/).
Based on their comments, I’m guessing these doltard acolytes are mostly or entirely white guys who are (Zionist) Christian, fanatically support Trump and Bannon, and suffer from delusions of grandeur. They live in an imaginary bubble where (Zionist) Christian white guys are the greatest saviors of the world, thus, they are incapable of horrible crimes. According to these people, if one of them committed an atrocity, then this guy was not a true Christian, was a fake white guy, was a white guy who was brainwashed or manipulated by a secretive organization, or was a crazy white guy who has nothing to do with other white guys. On the other hand, these people believe a single Islamic terrorist is an accurate representation of many, most, or all Muslims (but this is blowing things out of proportion), and other negative stereotypes should be applied to many/most/all other people who are non-white and/or non-Christian. Every time a Muslim flips out and goes medieval, many GOP/Trump/Bannon supporters and members demand bans and other punishments against as many Muslims as possible. To make the situation more hypocritical, many supporters and members of the Republican Party insisted the Las Vegas mass shooting does NOT justify a discussion on gun regulations, because that discussion is politicizing the tragedy.
A more realistic assessment is that Muslim Africans and Muslim Middle Easterners have higher rates of terrorism (which represent an extremely tiny fraction of the entire population) and religious extremism than other popular religions. Zionist Christian white people and Zionist liberal white people support more foreign interventions (e.g., explosive liberations, petrodollar scams, cartels, and sanctions) than any other group of people. A Holy prophet commandeth, “Thou shall know ‘denial” is not a river in Egypt and hypocritical fake testimony is the devil’s work.”
If the Las Vegas mass shooter was a Muslim and/or non-white guy, then Trump and his supporters would use it to quickly justify an immigration ban from certain Muslim/non-white nations (the ones that do not kowtow to US imperialism), but the travel ban would not apply for Saudi Arabia and other non-white nations that obey the US empire. In reality, the shooter was a white guy. Do NOT expect Trump and his supporters to frequently talk about banning white guys from owning guns, or raising standards for who can and cannot use guns, thus, the rate of accidental gunshots and the rate of gun-related crimes significantly decrease. They have done and will do everything possible to shift the blame, make excuses with hypocritical double-standards, make moral comparisons that are out of context, insist that inferior standards are actually a good thing, and create fictional explanations to satisfy their large and fragile egos.
From a factual perspective, men represent the vast majority of mass shooters, terrorists, serial killers, rapists, and other major criminals. Men are also much more likely than women to be rebels, soldiers, cops, scientists, engineers, mathematicians, religious leaders, philosophers, plumbers, construction workers, lumberjacks, sailors, etc. Poor communities are more likely than wealthier communities to commit crimes and have other social problems. A poor economy could worsen a community’s problems, and/or a community could be economically incompetent, which creates a self-perpetuating cycle of economic and social problems. Black communities have higher crime rates, lower economic productivity, and more dysfunctional families than what white communities have, but white communities have higher crime rates and more dysfunctional families than East Asian communities. There are objective ways or scientific methods to record and analyze social problems, which means there are realistic techniques to prevent and decrease social problems.
Unfortunately, the Democrat Party also lacks a realistic solution to prevent and minimize mass shootings. The Democrat Party wants to ban gun usage for nearly all Americans, thus, guns would only be allowed for law enforcement; private security guards who serve Hollyweirdo celebrities, the wealthy and/or socially connected, politicians, higher-ranking bureaucrats; and other members of the oligarchy and its honorary servants. The Democrat Party has been unable to cancel the US Constitution’s Second Amendment, but the Democrat Party has been able to greatly decrease the deadliness of civilian firepower by means of bureaucratic restrictions on firing rate and ammunition capacity plus the prohibition of fragmentation grenades, rockets, missiles, artillery, cannons, and other very powerful firepower. All of these regulations are followed by law-abiding citizens and residents, but criminals find various ways to bend and/or ignore these regulations.
The Democrat Party believes bureaucratic restrictions on gun technology will minimize the rate and severity of mass shootings, which is true, but mass shootings could also be minimized by proper training and psychological evaluations to ensure only the more competent and honorable people are allowed to use firearms.
We are suppose to believe democratic votes will create the best solutions for mass shootings. According to dumb-mock-crazy elections, the average person knows what is best or better for the majority of the entire nation, state or province, city, or town. In reality, the average person is incompetent with political leadership and government policies. Thus, the Zionist liberal Democrat Party and Zionist Christian Republican Party control America’s government and major corporations. For one example out of many, in the southern state of Alabama, Roy Moore was a judge and is the Republican nominee for Alabama's federal senate seat.
Roy Moore thinks Christianity should be the official or mandatory religion of America, but the US Constitution (which is suppose to be the highest law of the law) permits religious and philosophical freedom for each person. Roy Moore thinks the 9/11 terrorism and mass shootings were punishments from God, because America’s increasing tolerance for homosexual people, increasing acceptance of evolution and other scientific theories and laws, and other non-Biblical values (e.g., voting for a Muslim non-white politician) have incurred the wrath of the true and superior Biblical God: “Alabama's Roy Moore: Explained” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZNTfczVH7I).
Roy Moore and his voters (i.e., Zionist Christian white people in Alabama) believe they possess superior Holy values from the one and true Biblical God, and they deserve to lead everyone in America and around the world. Back in the real world, Roy Moore’s son has been allowed to repeatedly break the law: “Roy Moore’s son arrested for the 8th time” (http://www.alreporter.com/2016/11/28/roy-moores-son-arrested-for-the-8th-time/). Roy Moore’s son, Caleb, was guilty of domestic violence, 3 acts of possession of drug paraphernalia, multiple incidents of driving under the influence, and trespassing and hunting without a license. Generally speaking, America’s justice system is unfairly lenient toward people who are wealthy and/or socially connected. In regard to the possession of drugs, America’s justice system is also unfairly lenient toward white people and unfairly harsh against black people. As expected, Steve Bannon (the super-sized sack of shit) supports Roy Moore’s political aspirations and allegedly superior Holy values.
Alabama voters should change their state’s name, because it ironically rhymes with Allah-bomb-all or All-Obama, which are traitorous sins. Alabama’s new name should be Yahwehlana, Jesustana, or Jehovahwana.
Dumb-mock-crazy elections come with lots of good and bad exceptions. In Spain, the Catalonia autonomous community voted for secession, but the central government rejected this vote by legal means and through police violence. Here a few more examples out of many records of this dispute:
* “Dramatic: Catalan woman ‘thrown down stairs, kicked’ by Spanish cops” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPISm5p8GD0)
* “Catalan Referendum Met With Violence From Spanish Riot Police” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Fy-GSS7rA)
* “700k protest Spain's referendum crackdown in Barcelona – local police (PHOTO, VIDEO)” (https://www.rt.com/news/405586-thousands-protest-barcelona-catalonia/)
* “Guardia Civil brutality forces Catalan police into emotional standoff to protect civilians” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GinzSj7s-O4)
* “EU belatedly condemns violence in Catalonia but calls vote illegal” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyvn8mQtMc4)
That’s another problem with majority tyranny. If the votes oppose the (relative) majority and/or the oligarchy and its loyal servants, then the votes are rejected. The high costs of operating elections are also drawbacks. Notice how NATO does not provide military equipment, military training, and other assistance to these Catalonian rebels, but NATO provides military aid (e.g., weapons) and/or civilian support (e.g., news propaganda, financial support for the rebels, and sanctions against the establishment) to the Libyan rebels, Ukrainian junta, the international moderate-terrorists in Syria, and the Venezuelan protesters/rioters.
The maintenance or improvement of quality-of-life is inefficiently achieved by myths such as democracy. Statistical analysis of demographics and scientific advancements are vastly superior foundations for laws and other political tools that improve each peculiar person’s lifestyle and each unique community’s way of life. However, these practical methods expose the incompetence and corruption of the oligarchy and its loyal servants.
Catalonia’s vote for secession from the rest of Spain is mostly based on economics. The more productive Catalonia minority does not want to help the less productive majority of Spain. Economics is also the fundamental reason for the US empire’s and Europe’s explosive liberations, humanitarian shootouts, proxy wars for proxy rebels and proxy regimes, and double-standard anti-terrorism of the Middle East (which is rich with oil and gas) and Africa (which has large quantities of various natural resources). Economics is the most important reason for the immigration of medieval Middle Easterners and primitive Africans to Europe, America, and other regions. Spain’s central government should solve Catalonia’s economic concerns in order to persuade Catalonia to cancel its secessionist dreams. Voting or voting suppression is only a superficial solution.
In the real world, democracy usually means the relative majority or the largest minority voting group forces their preferences upon everyone else, but this system does not work well for a highly diverse community. The Zionist liberal Democrat Party mandate cultural Marxism for everyone, and the Zionist Christian Republican Party unrealistically believe their interpretations of Biblical superstitions, freedom, and justice are the best values for everyone. Thus, America has a long history of disputes and violent conflicts regarding race or ethnicity, culture, religion, politics, law and justice, education, economics, etc. Recently, black Americans and their supporters continue to protest and riot over the killing or alleged police brutality of Anthony Lamar Smith (black guy) by police officer Jason Stockley (white guy):
* “Scores of St Louis protesters arrested after highway blockage (PHOTOS)” (https://www.rt.com/usa/405620-police-arrest-stlouis-protests/).
* “143 arrested for blocking St. Louis highway after 20 days of protests” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hnADpfftX0)
Going back to the Las Vegas shooter, some people (who are extremely supportive of gun ownership) said terrorists who attack with vehicles prove legal restrictions for gun ownership will not save lives. For example, on 2016 July 14 evening during the Bastille Day celebration at the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France, a terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel (Tunisian guy who believed in Islamic extremism) used a very large truck that weighed nearly 20 tons to murder 86 people and injure 434 people. Due to the celebration, many thousands of people were on the well-lit streets and sidewalks, and this made them easy targets for any type of terrorism. Due to the actions of a few civilians and the police, the terrorist driver was shot dead. The terrorist driver took a route that was filled with people and brightly lit up by artificial lights. The end result was this terrorism by vehicular crashes was a lot more deadly and injurious than other similar types of terrorism. The terrorism of Nice, France was an outlier that could have been entirely prevented or greatly minimized. Roadblocks were did not exist or were totally inadequate. The police presence was minimal.
There was the 9/11 terrorism involving hijacked airliners, and that terrorism killed thousands and injured many people. However, there are highly plausible conspiracy theories on why the 9/11 terrorism was unusually successful (e.g., 2 airliners easily took down 3 well-designed and well-constructed buildings, dancing Israelis filming the 9/11 terrorism, the suspicious stand-down of the highly capable USAF, most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis (but the US corporate-government blamed Iraq and Afghanistan), and the petrodollar’s global scams (inflation tax, cartels, sanctions, etc)). After the 9/11 terrorism, the US government created laws, techniques, and technologies that prevented a repeat.
Another argument is that mass murder by vehicle does NOT justify mass murder by firearms. If a terrorist kills and injures with vehicular crashes, then laws, techniques, and technologies need to be created to stop or minimize terrorism by vehicular crashes. In a better society, you do not say, “Well, the terrorist used a vehicle to attack people, thus, we might as well allow terrorists to use guns to attack people. If a terrorist succeeds, then we are powerless to decrease the probability of future terrorism.” Bad behavior does not justify more bad behavior. We could use laws, techniques, and technologies to significantly minimize the rate of gun-related accidents and crimes.
Furthermore, America and at least many other nations have lots of laws regarding the operation of an automobile. A driver is required to pass a driving test in order to obtain a driver’s license, which is a type of identification and proof of legal permission to drive a vehicle. A driver is required to pass a specific test in order to drive a passenger car (and small to medium-sized to large trucks), a motorcycle, or a very large truck. Based on legal and medical standards, a person could be too young or too old to drive a vehicle. If a driver is suspicious according to the police, then the driver is required to temporarily hand over his/her driver’s license to the police. If a driver drives in a dangerous manner (e.g., driving under the influence, excessive speeding, slowing down or stopping at the wrong location, and reckless lane changes and turns), then the police is allowed to stop the driver at the side of the road, examine the driver, and arrest the driver. A driver is required to obtain insurance to financially protect him/herself and other people after an automobile accident. A driver is required to maintain his/her automobile in at least basic working condition for safety reasons and environmental protection. A driver is required to maintain the identification code and ownership status of his/her vehicle. If a driver does not follow these laws, then the government takes away the driver’s vehicle and right to operate a vehicle.
Due to government laws and economic competition, the automobile industry is required to constantly advance their automobiles’ safety standards and other features (e.g., ABS, airbags, seat belts, crash resistance, crash avoidance systems, the future plans for AI-driving, better fuel efficiency, anti-theft technology, navigation systems, more reliable tires, and more comfortable interiors). Passenger cars, small trucks, medium-sized trucks, and large trucks are very common throughout America. Walk outside the average house or the typical business zone, and you will easily see these vehicles parked somewhere or being driven. Motorcycles and extra large trucks are less common, but still common enough to be seen on a daily to weekly basis.
In other words, the automobile industry and drivers follow lots of government laws and industry regulations. On the other hand, the gun industry and gun users follow a lot less government laws and industry regulations. The typical consumer automobile contains many more parts and much more sophisticated technology than what is found in the common consumer handgun or rifle. If America could thoroughly regulate the mass production and mass usage of automobiles, then America could thoroughly regulate the mass production and mass usage of firearms. However, America’s culture is either extremely pro-gun-ownership or extremely anti-gun-ownership. Thus, Americans do not have reasonable laws regarding gun ownership, and Americans repeatedly suffer gun-related accidents and crimes every single year.
The average American spends a lot more time using a vehicle than using a firearm. Despite the extreme popularity of vehicles, terrorists prefer to use guns and explosives to kill and injure people. Every modern military prefers to use bullets, bombs, missiles, and torpedoes to destroy and damage their targets. Terrorists infrequently use vehicular crashes to kill and injure people. Every modern military very rarely uses vehicular crashes to destroy and damage their targets. This is because firepower is typically vastly more efficient at causing destruction and damages than vehicular crashes are. Of course, combining firepower with vehicles (e.g, main battle tank, navy submarine, navy destroyer, fighter plane, and bomber plane) is even more dangerous. Terrorism by firepower is much more common than terrorism by vehicular crashes.
Then there is the argument that the concert crowd should have been armed with lots of rifles, thus, they could shoot back at the mass shooter. The distance between the concert crowd and the mass shooter’s hotel room was many hundreds of feet, and both sides were in the dark. A shootout could cause lots of collateral damage on both sides, especially if the crowd of shooters lack proper training, natural skills, and/or accurate long-range rifles. The crowd of shooters could shoot at the wrong suspects and/or accidentally shoot themselves and innocent bystanders. Owning a firearm, using a gun, or practicing at the typical firing range does not magically convert you into Rambo, Robocop, the Terminator, or other Hollyweirdo superheroes/super-villains. I’m guessing this is why the police did NOT engage in a long-range shootout with the mass shooter. The police got into a close-range combat with the mass shooter.
The CBS news website has a summary about the 58 dead victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting: “Here are the victims of the Las Vegas shooting” (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-shooting-victims-names-latest-list/).