LAS VEGAS (AP) – A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 200 as tens of thousands of frantic concert-goers screamed and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
(ANTIMEDIA) Weld County, CO — Active shooter drills in schools are becoming more commonplace nationwide, and now even teachers are joining in for firearms training under Colorado law. A Second Amendment group says it’s “the first time we’ve taken it this far.”
Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire
Another shocking active-shooter incident rocks America. This time, according to Florida’s Broward County Sheriff’s Department, thirteen people were shot, including five dead, after an apparent shooting rampage took place at Fort Lauderdale’s Hollywood International Airport yesterday.
Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire
As 2016 comes to a close, a nightclub shooting rocks Istanbul on New Year’s Eve. The attack is less than two weeks after Berlin’s known wolf truck attack. Only time will tell if the Turkish club shooting will also turn out to be the work of a known wolf. A massive manhunt is already underway.
Let’s examine the latest details in what appears to be another terror tragedy in Turkey…
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There have been a string of active shooter events prior to 2016’s first presidential debate this coming week – with many incidents appearing suspicious in nature.
The Guardian reports that the apparent motive still remains unclear:
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This is something which 21WIRE has been warning about for years, ever since the ‘regional’ police confabs and DHS fusion centers began the new national obsession with ‘Active Shooter’ drills.
Gone are the dreams of a sentient people. From the way we bow before dead trees refusing to acknowledge the ceremony’s pagan antecedents to how we’ve handed the keys of our news collection agencies to children, this once proud yet jejune people (a mere 239 years) now grovels in a detached cluelessness unrivaled in modern time. And with that I wish you a Merry Christmas.
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Mencken said it best. But herein, I may just have said it better. I will discuss a variety of specious arguments being made from various groups and collect the points of view. As I’ve stated innumerably, the ability to critically think appears to be a lost art. But as lost artists, we will slog ahead nonetheless. And please note the actual reality and horror supra. That’s what needs to be told. The truth. Reality.
