THE LAS VEGAS SHOOTING AND MEDIA PUSILLANIMITY

     As we've all heard, there was a horrific mass-shooting in Las Vegas last night; leaving nearly five dozen people dead and hundreds in various states of injury. The suspect fired on the crowd with some type of heavy automatic weapon from the upper story of a tall building. He committed suicide and plunged into Tartarus as the police broke down the door.

     Our general policy here is not to do much speculation during these incidents until all the facts are in. There are plenty of people in Las Vegas in need of help right now. The conduct of the Corporate Media and the Whacko Left in general right now has been an international disgrace.

      Instead of using its vast power to do good for the victims of today's massacre, the media is carrying on like a bunch of cannibals dancing around a stewpot. They're exploiting the tragedy to snipe at President Trump and celebrating that most of the victims were presumably Republicans, based on the demographics of the crowd. CBS was even obliged to fire a senior executive after an online TDS attack applauding the shooting with sadistic glee.

       The comments from Liberals on discussion forums have been revolting to say the least. There's really no point in repeating them here. To people who live by the philosophy that 'the personal is political' things like human empathy and solidarity are meaningless. The victims made a political statement by going to the concert and the shooter made one by killing them. That's as much as they understand, or rather believe dogmatically, because at this point we have no idea what the shooter's motives actually were.

      And the personal-is-political nonsense is the reason why the MSM has such obsessions with motives in these cases. To most outside of investigative, legal, and criminology fields, criminal motives really matter very little. Motivations behind acts like these are always irrational. True, there are equally sick people in the Media and on the Internet encouraging violence and they need to be exposed. But weapons are simply tools and don't discriminate at all about who uses them, or whom they're used upon.

       What we need to focus on as a society is why these incidents seem to be happening in the US with such alarming frequency. One thing that we've observed is that they are overwhelmingly committed by males who have been alienated and radicalized. The root of stopping the problem lies there. There really is no political or ideological underpinning to any of this: radical politics and religious fanaticism are the excuses---not the reasons---for these kinds of incidents. They've been happening under Trump about at the same rate as under Obama which was only slightly higher than under Bush and Clinton. The problem is cultural, not political.

        This is what the Corporate Media can't grasp. To their personal-is-political mindset, a shooting with politically-correct motives or outcomes is somewhat justifiable. Take the example of how they covered the shooting of Democrat Gabrielle Giffords vs. the shooting of Republican Steve Scalise. One is a media icon, the other dropped from the news like a hot potato. And some extremist bloggers on the Far Right have adopted the same philosophy and praise killers like Anders Breivik, Dylann Roof, and Elliot Roger.

       The fact is that mass-killings are never justifiable in this kind of extralegal context. War or other official acts are presumed to be in national defense. But no person can declare a war on society unilaterally and be anything but a murderer regardless of their intentions. What we should be focusing on now is how to aid and assist the victims of the attack instead of finger-pointing and blame-shifting.