The recent mass shooting that killed and injured hundreds of people at a music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, further revealed the American society’s 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 violence among American people.
Paddock was “an all-American man, he was America, that is who we are,” Mason said. “We are a violent, patriarchical, settler colonial society.”
Investigators and Paddock’s associates say they cannot fathom what drove the former accountant and real estate investor to slaughter.
Authorities, who have been desperately trying to track Paddock’s movements in the build-up to the massacre, say he had also monitored recent music festivals in Chicago and Boston.
In addition, law enforcement officials found “some explosives and several thousand rounds of…