{"id":329705,"date":"2017-10-09T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T12:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/american-society-violent-by-nature-commentator\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T12:11:43","slug":"american-society-violent-by-nature-commentator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/american-society-violent-by-nature-commentator\/","title":{"rendered":"American society violent by nature: Commentator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The recent mass shooting that killed and injured hundreds of people at a music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, further revealed the American society\u2019s violent nature, says an analyst in Oakland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Press TV on Sunday, Professor Mark Mason said 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who carried out the deadly Vegas shooting epitomized the normalization of violence among American people.<\/p>\n<p>Paddock was \u201can all-American man, he was America, that is who we are,\u201d Mason said. \u201cWe are a violent, patriarchical, settler colonial society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators and Paddock\u2019s associates say they cannot fathom what drove the former accountant and real estate investor to slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities, who have been desperately trying to track Paddock\u2019s movements in the build-up to the massacre, say he had also monitored recent music festivals in Chicago and Boston.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, law enforcement officials found \u201csome explosives and several thousand rounds of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/09\/538000\/US-Paddock-Las-Vegas-shooting-violence-Mason\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent mass shooting that killed and injured hundreds of people at a music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, further revealed the American society\u2019s violent nature, says an analyst in Oakland. Speaking to Press TV on Sunday, Professor Mark Mason said 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who carried out the deadly Vegas shooting epitomized the normalization of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-329705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}