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2 dead, 3 injured in Las Vegas shooting of homeless

At least two people were fatally shot and three were wounded with non-life threatening injuries Friday in Las Vegas in the area of Charleston Boulevard and U.S. 95 at 5:30 local time, police said.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told ABC affiliate KTNV that the victims were "unhoused."

Police told KTNV that the victims were shot by the same person who is still at large.

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  • “Unhoused” troubles me. It feels like it denudes the impact of a person having no place to call home. Is it supposed to destigmatize “homeless” in some way?

    • "Unhoused" kind of rubs me the wrong way too, mainly because, in my opinion, it's such a blatant (and not exactly genius) manipulation of language to, as you say, "destigmatize" the Other word. The Other word comes with mental images of dirty bums and mental illness and drug addiction and petty criminals and ... whereas "unhoused" people ... well, that sounds like just an ordinary person without a house! Someone w/o a house doesn't necessarily need expensive social supports like health care and food and training/education and [obviously] housing. A much more palatable and low-baggage term, no? Oy.

      But I'm easily annoyed at all this kind of re-terming, and it's everywhere. Among the most irritating is "Anthropogenic global warming" becoming "climate change" ... notice how that eliminates all blame from the term, and furthermore no longer indicates which direction temps are moving in. Even worse is that my fellow lefties say "climate change" now w/o a second thought to the origin of the phrase (right-wing propagandists) or the motives behind its creation (corporate profits).

  • I'm surprised the authorities give a shit, after all homeless people are completely invisible to them, at best (which is probably why they aren't targeted more often by mass shooters who want publicity, but undoubtedly daily by murderers who don't, because it's so unlikely to get coverage or proper investigation).

    I hope they get to at least rest in peace now..

    • Yeah, I was thinking something like this too when I first read the article. Around here, the right-wing mayor (a short-timer now thankfully) was pushing for the cops to be able to do homeless "sweeps" of "encampments", something that I've little doubt has, and will, lead to serious roughing-up (maybe even murdering...?) of homeless who look at the cops the wrong way or give any backtalk or don't 110% "comply" immediately if not sooner... . Hell around here a cop just beat the shit out of a guy (busting ribs and much more) who was simply taking a quick nap in his car in a public park parking lot, because he thought himself too tired to drive safely at that time.

      The authorities around here pay attention to the homeless when it's time for a little violent action (fun!) but that's about it. So I too am surprised these LV ones are jumping on this incident. It would be a great thing if they were vigorously pursuing solving crimes against the homeless, but I've gotta wonder ... seems awfully unlikely.

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