Attack in NYC, multiple dead (MSNBC)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

On the tube right now. Multiple dead per MSNBC. Gun and car attack by the sound of it.

[Roronoa D. Law]

These events are really starting to get on my nerves. Don't hurt anybody else because your life isn't where you want it to be.

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

Six dead, 11 injured per NYT report. Truck was a rented Home Depot truck. Bomb squad reportedly on scene

 https://nyti.ms/2iPvM5M

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

These events are really starting to get on my nerves. Don't hurt anybody else because your life isn't where you want it to be.

They're losers. Every time. They're always ex petty criminals who still can't get ahead in civil society.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

These events are really starting to get on my nerves. Don't hurt anybody else because your life isn't where you want it to be.

I blame the media for hyping them.

A hundred Americans die every day on our roads, but that gets no major coverage and hardly anyone cares.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I think we can all agree that the people who commit this kind of act are the true deplorables.

[Holmes]

Horrible.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

These events are really starting to get on my nerves. Don't hurt anybody else because your life isn't where you want it to be.

I blame the media for hyping them.

A hundred Americans die every day on our roads, but that gets no major coverage and hardly anyone cares.

Yes, because random accidents are random accidents. They don't involve plotting and can't be found out beforehand by authorities. Are you so densely hackish that you are willing to live with avoidable actions just to "stick it" to perceived bigots? Are you literally this horrible?

[RINO Tom]

These events are really starting to get on my nerves. Don't hurt anybody else because your life isn't where you want it to be.

They're losers. Every time. They're always ex petty criminals who still can't get ahead in civil society.

What's sad is each new occurrence will probably just encourage more losers to become copycats.   I still don't understand why we ever allow these people's faces to reach live TV ... we don't cover bridge suicides for a very specific reason, and while it's unrealistic to not cover this type of event, there is no reason to broadcast the identity of the murderer.

[Pyro]

Takes a real piece of s**t person to do this sort of thing.

[KingSweden]

These events are really starting to get on my nerves. Don't hurt anybody else because your life isn't where you want it to be.

They're losers. Every time. They're always ex petty criminals who still can't get ahead in civil society.

What's sad is each new occurrence will probably just encourage more losers to become copycats.   I still don't understand why we ever allow these people's faces to reach live TV ... we don't cover bridge suicides for a very specific reason, and while it's unrealistic to not cover this type of event, there is no reason to broadcast the identity of the murderer.

Well said.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Attacker was apparently attacking children riding home from school and might have rammed a school bus.

[BudgieForce]

The guns the driver had were fake?

[Silent Hunter]

I think we can all agree that the people who commit this kind of act are the true deplorables.

[fluffypanther19]

I think we can all agree that the people who commit this kind of act are the true deplorables.

[Santander]

I think we can all agree that the people who commit this kind of act are the true deplorables.

I know this is horrible, but in situations like these, I often kind of feel sorry for the attacker and his family more than I feel sorry for the victims. The attacker is probably a disturbed young man who became radicalized trying to fill an emotional hole in his life. Dylann Roof, Omar Mateen... what tragedies their lives were. We all should reach out to the troubled young men in our lives and try to lead them away from a life of hatred and violence.

[Holmes]

I think we can all agree that the people who commit this kind of act are the true deplorables.

I know this is horrible, but in situations like these, I often kind of feel sorry for the attacker and his family more than I feel sorry for the victims. The attacker is probably a disturbed young man who became radicalized trying to fill an emotional hole in his life. Dylann Roof, Omar Mateen... what tragedies their lives were. We all should reach out to the troubled young men in our lives and try to lead them away from a life of hatred and violence.

You can sympathize with people that have emotional and psychological issues without feeling bad for those who acted on them and killed people because of them.

[TPIG]

Attacker apparently shouted "Allahu Akbar" after jumping out of rental truck used to mow down civilians. I'm sure ISIS will claim responsibility even if they weren't actually behind it. Praying for the families of the victims .

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Attacker was apparently attacking children riding home from school and might have rammed a school bus.

This has since unraveled, though children on a school bus were indeed injured.

[The Dowager Mod]

I know I'm probably wasting my time, But try to keep this thread on topic and civil.

[Beet]

I think we can all agree that the people who commit this kind of act are the true deplorables.

I know this is horrible, but in situations like these, I often kind of feel sorry for the attacker and his family more than I feel sorry for the victims. The attacker is probably a disturbed young man who became radicalized trying to fill an emotional hole in his life. Dylann Roof, Omar Mateen... what tragedies their lives were. We all should reach out to the troubled young men in our lives and try to lead them away from a life of hatred and violence.

Plenty of people have emotional holes in their lives and don’t do this.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Events like this are ing horrible (as always) and anyone who wants to exploit such events for political gain or scoring points of some sort is ing horrible (as always).

[Ronnie]

I hate to ask this question, and it truly is just a question, but could the fact that a society constantly produces men who are willing to commit these actions reveal something problematic about the society itself?  These events are becoming too horrifyingly routine for us to just say that these are awful dudes, and leave it there.  

[Beezer]

I hate to ask this question, and it truly is just a question, but could the fact that a society constantly produces men that are willing to commit these actions reveal something problematic about the society itself?  These events are becoming too horrifyingly routine for us to just say that these are awful dudes, and leave it there.  

It's almost as if they are perhaps radicalized by a certain ideology...

[Ronnie]

I hate to ask this question, and it truly is just a question, but could the fact that a society constantly produces men that are willing to commit these actions reveal something problematic about the society itself?  These events are becoming too horrifyingly routine for us to just say that these are awful dudes, and leave it there.  

It's almost as if they are perhaps radicalized by a certain ideology...

Perhaps, but as we've seen, there isn't just one ideology out there, and radicalization doesn't happen in a vacuum.  And I don't know if it's accurate to say that all of these attacks are ideologically driven.