A multiplication of nuts?

A man hit an officer, directing traffic outside a football stadium in Edmonton, Canada, and then jumped out and stabbed the officer. He fled on foot. The officer was thrown 15 feet in the air. After a while he was identified at a check point, driving a U-Haul vehicle, and after a chase, during which he injured a further 4 pedestrians, he was arrested when the vehicle overturned. An Islamic State flag was found in the vehicle and the man had been investigated by Canadian police for extremist views in 2015, after a complaint. On the same day 2 young women, aged 17 and 20 years, were stabbed to death outside the main train station in Marseille, France by a man shouting 'Allahu akbar'. Police shot the man, described as of North African appearance, dead. One girl had her throat slit, while the other was stabbed in the abdomen. Police had stopped the man earlier for not having any identification papers, but let him go. The man was known for drug related crimes and had previously used up to 8 identities. Islamic State claimed responsibility. France has suffered a series of terror attacks since 2014, the worst one being in Paris in 2015, during a concert at Bataclan hall, killing 130. Normally, the new attacks in France and Canada would have made headline news, with Donald Trump demanding vigorous action against jihadists but this time he was commiserating with families of 59 people killed by a gunman, using automatic weapons. Another 527 were injured. Apparently, Islamic State claimed responsibility for this attack as well, but without providing any proof. The shooter, identified as 64-year old retired accountant, Stephen Paddock, had no police record. He was shooting from a room on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on a crowd at a country music festival. Apparently, he had collected an arsenal of 23 weapons in the hotel room, including assault rifles. The US is no stranger to mass shootings, expressing outrage only when killings are especially sickening, as when Adam Lanza killed 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. The right to buy guns is enshrined in Second Amendment of the US Constitution and guarded by the National Rifle Association, or NRA, financed by companies manufacturing guns but also by donations from gun enthusiasts. The NRA is so powerful that it has the audacity to grade politicians according to their views on gun control. It can get away with making extremely stupid statements like, "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." How could anyone standing on the ground stop this man on the 32nd floor while he shot "clip after clip after clip"? Meanwhile, Trump tweeted about Kim Jong Un, "Being nice to Rocket Man hasn't worked in 25 years, why would it work now?" Kim Jong Un is not the only nutcase, is he?