No Stupid Questions

nobody ever talks about enron anymore. The CEO only got like 5 years for that. Nobody talks about nortel anymore, the CEO got no time for that, and a shit ton of money, all the employees had no pension.

Etc, etc, etc...

The guy didn't say or post much directly about it. Sometimes people do crazy shit for very little reason. You couple that with the ability to get guns easily, mass quantities of ammo, and bump stocks, you have yourself a bloody stew.

People love patterns, but sometimes there just isn't one. There is no single profile for a mass shooter. The closest you get is male and either 15-24 or 35-44.

Most people shoot others for grievances and having a shitty life. Sometimes not though. Many shooters don't even take their own life. Plenty of them are still on the run.

The easiest answer is that the vast majority of how our society runs is through the fear or threat of death. The moment someone starts wanting it, they're capable of nearly anything.

Most people see the greener pasture of nothingness between the loop of a noose at home. Some decide to kill and maim before they go out.

Unfortunately because of the 2nd amendment, it lets people rampage easily with high body counts before dying

Because there's another mass shooting every couple days. It's hard to care about why one dude did something crazy 7 years ago while bullets are still flying. People are much more focused on trying to stop the next one.

In 2024 there have been more "mass shooting events" in the US than there have been days in 2024.

One that happened 7 years ago isn't top of mind for most people.

This, like any event, comes down to what the family does to keep a case going. There’s many cold cases that are now getting solved by family members rather than police.

There is no agency out there that will keep interest in an issue.

once the media is done with it(they have a super short attention span) and the police will spend all of a few weeks on most things it is the family that keep the interest going. They will pay out of pocket to get attention for it.

There’s even cases where family members that have investigated into commercial air craft incidents because they lost loved ones and helped solve cases on that.

Believe it or not there are people calling the police every day just to keep their attention on a missing person or murder, asking for new leads. These are family members.

Police will not do this on their own.

It’s part of Vegas’ branding strategy.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

If Americans can be numb to mass killings of elementary school children, Vegas never stood a chance of remaining in the public discourse.

It's because of what you said: no motive. Crime like this is only sensational when the motive can be applied to some fictional stereotype of villain that could be stopped by new legislation or a war or whatever.

Also I think a big reason we don't discuss this specific event is the caliber of rifle used. Contrary to popular belief, non "assault" weapons can do a shocking amount of damage in an environment where the targets can't retaliate. See the Virginia Tech shooting.

Long story short: if it ain't political and can't be made political, people in the US won't care for long.

There was seemingly no political motive so there's no real reason to report on it anymore

I searched it a week ago to check how many people israel killed during their flour massacare. Because both involved shooting bullets into dense crowds.

The hotel massacare killed 60 people

Israel's flour massacare killed 120 people.

So that basically sums up. The hotel massacare wasn't "that big of a deal".

So fun fact

The reason why it was the deadliest shooting is because the shitstain was using a bump stock, which makes semiautomatics into pseudo-automatics, so he just mag dumped into a crowd

After it happened, the Trump admin of all fucking people banned bump stocks. Broken clock or something.

Now SCOTUS is about to hear a court case to repeal the ban, and they look poised to legalize bump stocks again under the BS reason that "they're not technically automatic weapons"

With the added bonus that now everyone knows about them

I was just thinking about it.

I think the motive was the guy was angry at the world and wanted to kill as many people as possible before killing himself.

A man that feels he has nothing to lose is a dangerous thing.

For the most part Americans are so desensitized to the gain Violence that it’s not something most of us think about much.

I’ve grown up in a post Columbine world, and mass shootings have been a part of my life since it started. They’re just a really unfortunate part of life here that won’t change unless there’s a massive culture shift.

Never found a motive? Are you joking? We've got tons of info on the psycho who did it. He was a distraught aging white male with a history of depression, gambling, and firearms who wanted to hurt the world and kill himself.

Sad losers are a dime a dozen but at least most of them aren't as stupid as that guy. There is no reason to discuss this outside of proposed changes to our society as a whole to better prevent these stains on history.

2017

Whenever I see posts like this, I wonder about the benchmark being set.

I don't know what OP wants... a weekly news story: "VEGAS SHOOTING STILL NOT SOLVED, NEWSPAPER EDITORS SEEK ALTERNATE HEADLINES"

DB Cooper was one of the most mysterious hijackers of all time. Still no motive, why don't we hear about it more often?

Zodiac killer, active for years on the West Coast. No known motive... why don't we hear about it? Why does no one mention it?

Jack the Ripper, killed women brutally, unsolved, no known motive. Why isn't he mentioned more often?

This line of thinking drives me crazy. Our current news ecosystem thrives off cheap clickbait and manufactured outrage. Barring some radical new information, they won't get that out of the Vegas shooting, hence it doesn't make headlines routinely.