{"id":4373,"date":"2017-10-07T09:19:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T13:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2017-10-07T16:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:37:46","slug":"as-the-investigation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/as-the-investigation-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few days after the atrocity, the investigation into the mass murderer in Las Vegas is bringing more surprises. There is still much to learn about what happened.<\/p>\n<p>The gun-banners, of course, are dancing madly in the blood. It looks as if the bump-fire stocks are going under the bus.\u00a0 The NRA is, at least, suggesting that if those things go, they get traded for something that will undoubtedly save innocent lives: national concealed carry reciprocity.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the antis are screaming about the killer apparently having bought some tracer bullets, and speculating that if he had used them he would have killed more victims with greater accuracy.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t seem to occur to them that if he had used tracers, his exact position would have been pinpointed almost immediately, and might have been stopped all the sooner.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few points..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ISIS has publicly taken credit for the killer\u2019s actions. That has been almost summarily dismissed.\u00a0 I have a feeling that it may have to be revisited. <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/rcallimachi\/status\/915998590153129984\">https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/rcallimachi\/status\/915998590153129984<\/a>\u00a0 Some find this unlikely, on the theory that a wealthy American Caucasian \u201cdoesn\u2019t fit the profile\u201d of someone radicalized toward violence.\u00a0 Um\u2026does anybody remember Patty Hearst?\u00a0 Anyone checked to see how many of those Antifa masks hide the young adult children of privileged white families?<\/li>\n<li>The killer owned private airplanes and had a pilot\u2019s license. Many commentators are now referring to his \u201csecret life.\u201d That secret life apparently included an obsession with homicide. It might be worth the investigators\u2019 while to go back through the files of his flight plans and correlate with unsolved murders in places he\u2019s been.<\/li>\n<li>The demands to take guns away from law-abiding people will continue. The meme of \u201cwe have to do SOMETHING, ergo, we have to blame SOMEONE,\u201d will likewise continue.\u00a0 The gun being the most visible symbol of the atrocity, symbolism over substance will continue too.<\/li>\n<li>Just for perspective, the death toll by guns and explosives was greater in the mass murders in Norway and France, which already have the sort of \u201cgun controls\u201d Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton would welcome. Not to mention the 2016 truck run-down in Nice that killed 86 and injured 458. Gun laws are impotent in the face of those already planning to commit the most heinous crimes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts, as always, are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few days after the atrocity, the investigation into the mass murderer in Las Vegas is bringing more surprises. There is still much to learn about what happened. The gun-banners, of course, are dancing madly in the blood. It looks as if the bump-fire stocks are going under the bus.\u00a0 The NRA is, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}