Las vegas

Las Vegas.

Over 50 people dead, including 2 police officers.
Suspect is a 64 year old with no known links to any terrorist group.
It will not help to demonise all white men in their 60s.
Nor will it help to sneer at secularists and liberals....
What will help is proper gun control laws.

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