Why do these mass shootings keep happening? Mass shootings have taken place at churches, in nightclubs, on college campuses, on military bases, in elementary schools, in government offices, and at concerts. The Las Vegas shooting is the deadliest to date. Could it be, as some have speculated, that these shootings are all part of an elaborate plan to incite fear and chaos, heighten national tensions and shift us that much closer to a complete lockdown?
*Follow us here at Newsbud Twitter
**Subscribe here at BFP-Newsbud YouTube Channel
***Free Newsletter Subscription at The Rutherford Institute
***Follow John W. Whitehead and The Rutherford Institute on Facebook
Watch Episode Preview
Watch Members Only Full Episode Here
***Subscribing Members must be logged in to see the full video
Featured Video MP3 Audio Clip
***Subscribing Members must be logged in to listen to the audio
Show Notes
“Gun Culture and the American Nightmare of Violence,” Moyers & Company
“Expert: Las Vegas shooter may have used trigger crank,” USA Today
“America’s Deadly Gun Addiction, by the Numbers,” Wired
“The Las Vegas attack is the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history,” CNN
“I Was a Teenage Gun Nut,” The Atlantic
“Gun Deaths Are Mostly Suicides,” The New York Times
“Militainment, Inc.: Militarism & Pop Culture,” Media Education Foundation
“The United States is No. 1 — But in What? Military Expenditure, Weapons Export and International Violence,” Centre for Global Research
“U.S. Military Spending Dwarfs Rest of World,” CNBC
“In the Wake of the Las Vegas Shooting, There Can Be No Truce with the Second Amendment,” The New Yorker
“Gun violence in America, explained in 17 maps and charts,” Vox
“Why are mass murders so uncommon in Japan?” Quartz
“Pentagon Video Warns of “unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities,” The Intercept
“How US gun culture compares with the world,” CNN
“Dozens of Civilians Killed When U.s. Bombed a School and a Market in Syria,” The Intercept
“Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the Nation” (January 17, 1961)
“The greatest sci-fi movies of the 1950s,” Den of Geek
“25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’ made America love war,” The Washington Post
“The Army gives you superpowers!” Salon
“You’re watching Pentagon propaganda: “American Idol,” “Ice Road Truckers” and the truth about your favorite shows,” Salon
“Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA,” Medium
“The Pentagon’s strengthening grip on Hollywood,” Salon
“DoD paid $53 million of taxpayers’ money to pro sports for military tributes, report says,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mass Shootings: The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly
Battlefield America: The War on the American People
Rutherford Institute