At least one person was killed and four others wounded in a shooting at a homeless encampment in Las Vegas on Friday, police said.

The incident occurred in the area of Charleston Boulevard and U.S. 95 around 5:30 p.m. local time. Officers responded to a homeless encampment, where witnesses directed them to multiple victims, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jason Johansson said at a press briefing Friday night.

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    11 months ago

    The only person who made that assumption was you. No one mentioned whether the shooter was homeless or not.

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      11 months ago

      How do you attack those that society has already failed utterly.

      OP assumed it wasn’t. I made no assumptions. Learn how to read.

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        11 months ago

        If a homeless person attacks a homeless person, they are still attacking someone society has failed. My interpretation of the comment is that it is more related to the victim than the perpetrator, like shooting elderly people in a nursing home or children or otherwise less privileged people - you’re victimizing someone who doesn’t have the same opportunity to protect or defend themselves or even choose where they reside. This is not to say that they are pitiable or anything like that, but they are disenfranchised.

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        11 months ago

        He’s talking about the victims there genius. There’s no assumption there about the shooter.

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          11 months ago

          Of course they were. Thats not the point.

          This would be a dumb thing to say if an assumption wasn’t that the person wasn’t also homeless. OP assumed the shooter wasn’t also homeless.

          Read it again with the idea that the shooter was a homeless man and it reads entirely wrong.

          For fuck’s sake man.

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          That is not how to interpret that statement. That reduces the point to a tautological statement of no consequence.