vegas killer identified , stephen paddock

photo of mass killer Stephen Paddock, courtesy the "Mirror"

He was not muslim, he was not black, but a typical white American. What does this tell us? That each human being can bring terror to our world.

But lets focus on the good. Lets focus on the people who saved lives and helped take the wounded to the hospitals. Plenty of good amongst a world of good and evil. But as we just said in our Yom Kippur prayers, pray for mercy, because you dont know when you will need it.

Been through a similar experience when I was ten years old, putting up posters in boro park for Dov Hikind when two Italians in a grey lincoln town car, came by and said what are you doing? one jdl guy said to them, none of your F'in business. The guy said, "what the f you said?" and pointed a rifle at us....they then took off. Dov Hikind then tells everyone, "dont worry , we have baseball bats if they come back."  Sure enough they came back, this time pointing the gun out the window and saying we will kill you F'in jews. My brother and I were hiding underneath the tire of a parked car. The rest of the guys including Hikind also went into hiding. The Italians then took off. After that, chassidim came by in a station wagon and shows us bullet holes in the back of their car and they identified that it was the Italians in the lincoln town car who shot at them. Trust me, I was traumatized by this incident and was afraid to walk the streets of New York for two weeks.

I went to the 61st Police Precint to try to identify the suspects but they had nothing on these guys.
This story occurred approximately in 1977. It was like yesterday....

The world in hebrew is called eretz, part of it is rutz, or run, you never know when you must run for your life, as we witnessed in las vegas.