memeorandum: Massacre blunts momentum of gun silencer bill (Burgess Everett/Politico)

5:25 AM ET, October 3, 2017

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The White Privilege of the “Lone Wolf” Shooter — Last night, the United States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. At least 58 people are dead and over 500 more wounded. No, that's not a typo: more than 500 were injured in one, single incident.

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Wall Street Journal:

Las Vegas Suspect Likely Used Automatic Rifle in Massacre — Investigators found 18 to 20 firearms in alleged gunman's hotel room — The gunman who authorities said killed at least 58 people at a Las Vegas music festival appears to have used at least one fully automatic rifle …

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Will Ricciardella / The Daily Caller:

CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas ‘Because Country Music Fans Often Are Republican’ — A top legal executive at CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold, said she “is not even sympathetic” for the victims of the shooting at a country music festival at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Sunday night.

Michael Hopper / VICE News:

What Nevada NRA's chief said when he found out about the massacre — Around 7 a.m. Las Vegas local time, VICE News called Don Turner, president of the Nevada Firearms Coalition, the state's NRA affiliate, to discuss gun laws in the state. Turner was in Phoenix, attending an NRA conference …

Discussion: Politico, Splinter and Raw Story

Bill O'Reilly / No Spin News:

Mass Murder in Las Vegas — Once again, the big downside of American freedom is on gruesome display. A psychotic gunman in Las Vegas has committed the worst mass murder in U. S. history. — 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who lived in Nevada, began firing from a hotel window about 10pm Pacific time last night.

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ABC News:

President Trump's full remarks on the deadly Las Vegas shooting — Below are President Donald Trump's full remarks on Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas, as delivered from the White House's Diplomatic Room on Oct. 2, 2017. — Thank you. My fellow Americans, we are joined together today in sadness, shock and grief.

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WSMV-TV:

West Tennessee man killed in mass shooting at Las Vegas concert — A West Tennessee man was one of at least 59 people killed in the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday. — Sonny Melton, 29, was at the Route 91 Harvest festival with his wife, Heather Melton …

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David French / National Review:

Based on the Early Reports, The Las Vegas Shooting Is Very, Very Strange — Before I begin, let me clearly state two things. First, as I note in the title of this post, my observations are based on early reports, and early reports are often wrong. Second, do not read this post as implying any sort of conspiracy theory of any kind.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Pitch perfect’: CNN scrambles to glorify Trump's Las Vegas speech

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Mary Hui / Washington Post:
CBS fires VP for writing ‘Republican gun toters’ killed in Las Vegas don't deserve sympathy

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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Iraq War Veteran Helped Direct Cops To Vegas Shooter's Room

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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Guns, loaded high-capacity magazines found in Vegas shooter's room: Sources

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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Massacre blunts momentum of gun silencer bill

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Cindy Boren / Washington Post:
Las Vegas concert shooting prompts ESPN to change its mind about airing national anthem

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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Comedy writer Megan Amram jokes Las Vegas shooter fits typical profile because he is a ‘white man’

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German Lopez / Vox:
Gun violence in America, explained in 17 maps and charts

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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
When You Politicize Shootings You Make It Harder To Find Solutions

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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Beyond the Vegas Shooting Victims' Names: What We Know

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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
WATCH: Pat Robertson blames Vegas shooting on ‘disrespect’ for Trump and the national anthem

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New York Times:
Automatic Weapon May Have Been Involved in Las Vegas Shooting, Audio Suggests

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Washington Post:
Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock enjoyed gambling, country music, lived quiet life before massacre

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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
White House: Now is not the time to talk about gun control. But ‘if you look to Chicago ...’

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CNN:
Las Vegas shooting: What we know

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New York Times:
Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas Suspect, Was a Gambler Who Drew Little Attention

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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Why Did the Islamic State Claim the Las Vegas Shooting?

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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Facebook and Google promote politicized fake news about Las Vegas shooter

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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Here Are The Actual Federal Laws Regulating Machine Guns In The U.S.

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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Bill O'Reilly: Las Vegas shooting ‘the price of freedom’

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Joe Concha / The Hill: CBS executive fired after saying Las Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy

Sam J. / twitchy.com: WTAF?! Brother says Las Vegas shooter was multi-millionaire real estate investor

Washington Post:
The lives lost in Las Vegas

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TMZ.com:

Tom Petty Found Unconscious in Full Cardiac Arrest (UPDATE) — EXCLUSIVE — 1:35 PM PT — Sources tell us at 10:30 Monday morning a chaplain was called to Tom's hospital room. We're told the family has a “do not resuscitate” order on Tom. The singer is not expected to live through the day, but he's still clinging to life.

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Rolling Stone:

Report: Tom Petty, Rock Iconoclast Who Led the Heartbreakers, Dead at 66 — Singer suffered cardiac arrest and was taken off life support at hospital — Tom Petty, the dynamic and iconoclastic frontman who led the band the Heartbreakers, went into full cardiac arrest at his Malibu home Sunday night …

Discussion: Variety, Washington Post, The Guardian and Hit & Run

CBS News:

Tom Petty, legendary rocker, is dead at 66 — Tom Petty, the rocker best known as the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, is dead at 66, CBS News has confirmed. — The legendary musician suffered a full cardiac arrest and was found unconscious and not breathing in his Malibu home Sunday night.

Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Petty, Heartbreakers frontman who sang ‘Breakdown,’ 'Free Fallin" and other hits, dies at 66

Discussion: RedState and Q13 FOX News

Andrea Peterson / Politico:

Hundreds of White House emails sent to third Kushner family account — White House officials have begun examining emails associated with a third and previously unreported email account on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's private domain, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Raw Story, RedState, CNBC, Splinter, The Week and Mediaite

Elliot Schrage / Facebook:

Hard Questions: Russian Ads Delivered to Congress — What was in the ads you shared with Congress? How many people saw them? — Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum, touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.

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Washington Post:
Russian Facebook ads showed a black woman firing a rifle, amid efforts to stoke racial strife

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Facebook: Russian ads reached 10 million people

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Washington Post:

Trump's company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators — Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney leaves Capitol Hill on Sept. 19. Cohen was there to appear privately before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (Susan Walsh/AP)

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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:

Trump administration weighing executive order on welfare — Trump administration officials are mulling an executive order that would instruct federal agencies to review low-income assistance programs, part of a coming effort to make sweeping changes to the country's welfare system.

Discussion: The Root

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

The Big Tech Platforms Still Suck During Breaking News — In aftermath of Sunday evening's mass shooting in Las Vegas, visitors to Facebook's Crisis Response page for the tragedy should have found a cascading feed of community-posted news and information intended to “help people be more informed about a crisis.”