Sure sounds awfully familiar, almost like a redux of the Boston Marathon bombing. But you'd be wrong.
You see, when two guys use bombs to hurt people en masse at a marathon, it's instantly "terrorism." But when two to three people use guns to hurt people en masse at a parade, it's simply "the relentless drumbeat of street violence."
What's the difference?
A homemade bomb versus a gun, by the looks of it.
If both were intended to harm, and scare, a large number of random people, would they not be the same? Sure, they've invoked Islam with the Boston Marathon bombing, but so far, we haven't heard much detail about any real motive there. Yet we're sure that's terror, and this is just that silly old "street violence" so common in America.
The real problem is American culture and its fetish with, and tolerance for, violence.
The New Orleans Police Department has released video of the shooting, and at least one of the suspects. I've made the video into an animated gif - you can see the video, which is much slower, below:
... in the top photograph looks too neat to be real. I mean no disrespect to anyone who was actually hurt during the event but I cannot help but think the people in that photograph are actors.
There is not a single clue, within that photograph that suggests real human blood, no smears, no drips, the colour seems wrong. Things that make you go hmmmm...
Much Peace...