Stephen Paddock was identified by police as the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)In what police call the deadliest attack in modern American history, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on concertgoers at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday. The Las Vegas shooting raises several questions linked to race and religion and how they figure into our imagining and policing of terrorism. Like Paddock, Dylann Roof, who killed nine churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, was described as a “lone wolf.”But why is one person “homegrown” while someone else is a “lone” or “local wolf”? While we focus on Muslim boogeymen both near and far, we neglect hateful, armed white terrorists right here at home.

Source: Washington Post October 02, 2017 22:34 UTC