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First picture of gunman Stephen Paddock who killed at least 50 people...
Daily mirror ^ | October 2 2017 | JAMIE BULLEN

Posted on 10/02/2017 4:34:44 AM PDT by aquila48

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To: Conservative Gato
A freeper posted the other day how the President can ask the military to open up tribunals. There is already plenty of evidence the left intends to start a civil war with ANTIFA and other radical leftist groups. Also the leftist who shot up the congressmen and others at softball practice.

Yes, start the tribunals and I think HUAC and other investigations. I just don't think we're taking the socialist/communist threat seriously enough.

341 posted on 10/02/2017 1:18:35 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: aquila48

From another article:

“The Islamic State militant group claimed on Monday that Mr. Paddock was one of its soldiers, but did not provide any evidence to support its claim. The F.B.I. said there was no evidence so far that Mr. Paddock had ties to any international terrorist organization.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/stephen-paddock-vegas-shooter.html

Most articles say he was nonpolitical. Maybe he was just crazy. Maybe he did not have anything to do with Islam, maybe they just tried to claim it as another success story for them, but who knows. You never know about the quiet ones.

We’ll see what they find as they continue the investigation.


342 posted on 10/02/2017 1:24:36 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: taildragger

Amen


343 posted on 10/02/2017 1:48:47 PM PDT by windowdude
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To: epluribus_2

Yup. The cry for more gun control, take up all the guns will cry in the halls of the fools in Congress. Every leftist alive will cry for further gun laws and controls. Even though we have more gun laws and tougher abilities to buy guns than any nation on earth, the cry will go on. That is how Hitler got control, how Saddam got control, etc., total gun control. The people cannot defend themselves against the tyrants that RULE, not govern, but RULE over the people. The day they have the White House, and both houses of Congress, plus they own most of the federal judges positions, and such, they will pack in the gun take away and in the end try to get them all, and then only the criminals and the leftist army of leftist cops will rule.


344 posted on 10/02/2017 2:30:48 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (We are in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! Do U know Him?)
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To: KC_Lion

Sincerely Dead...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huPDP5-NfbE


345 posted on 10/02/2017 2:36:39 PM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: TheDon
About 320 feet to the ground? Shooter can spray into a crowd. Once the crowd dispersed iron sights would be effective at that distance.

320 feet is pretty high up in a hotel. What was the floor (floor 13 is non-existent in any hotel)? What is the distance from the base of the hotel to tje point of impact?

Anyone knowing about riflery will tell you that major adjustments of the sights must be made to account for the ballistics of shooting either uphill or downhill, in which in either case the on-the-level settings will cause the bullet to fall lower than the point that the sight picture indicates; and the farther away the more the deviation. Also, for a .223 caliber that might be considerable as compared to a .308 which reaches further out.

Doubtless in this case at the distance, inclination, and wind speed prevailing, in a milling crowd, in a rapid-fire scenario, an attempt to aim fire at any specific individual(s) would be quite unlikely.

The best one could do as a target in the crowd mass would be to move as rapidly as possible, laterally and in an erratic fashion, away from the center of the impact area into as area with as much peripheral cover available, solid or visual.

The worst strategy would be to remain hunkered down partially or completely exposed and immobile if one did not know where the shot were coming from, if the shooter was really sniping rather than just randomly sending plunging fire into the highest-density portion of the crowd.

Any infantryman knows that his unit needs to disperse whether under artillery or MG searching fire; and with personnel moving from cover to cover if it is a sniper seeking individual targets.

In this case, probably the shooter had observed and made allowances for the behavior of crowds, the location, and the density of grouping to know how to pre-plan his attack tactics with effective precision, eh?

346 posted on 10/02/2017 2:39:13 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Are you talking about the young woman warned that “you’re all gonna die” by two hispanics (man and woman)? The young woman left the scene before the shooting occurred, but later gave her testimony...


347 posted on 10/02/2017 2:40:45 PM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: imardmd1

Well it is evident much thought and planning went into the shooting and that there was plenty of premeditation


348 posted on 10/02/2017 2:42:02 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: bert

That’s it in a nutshell!


349 posted on 10/02/2017 2:42:18 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Liberals see what they believe.. Conservatives believe what they see.")
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To: HLPhat

Erase the f@#ing words and get on with your life. Sheez. I couldn’t watch it all.


350 posted on 10/02/2017 2:47:44 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: TarasBulbous

Those pic comparisons came out awfully quick


351 posted on 10/02/2017 2:48:20 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Eleutheria5

>>Sheez. I couldn’t watch it all.

The cadets didn’t have any choice - other than “get out”.

Obama’s legacy of “leadership”:

https://freedomoutpost.com/lesbian-colonel-with-wife-kids-to-take-charge-of-usaf-academy/


352 posted on 10/02/2017 2:51:32 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: smileyface

Are you talking about the young woman warned that “you’re all gonna die” by two hispanics (man and woman)? The young woman left the scene before the shooting occurred, but later gave her testimony...
...........

No, the 61 yr old. Marilou Danley, of Filipino decent.


353 posted on 10/02/2017 2:53:46 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (The Left's family value: 'The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!' (Che Guevara, 1961))
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To: HLPhat

They can’t just make them clean a sidewalk with a toothbrush, or drop and give ‘em 50? Hazing is humane by comparison with listening to that loud-mouthed idiot lecturing with his fake outrage.


354 posted on 10/02/2017 2:55:01 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: aquila48

So how was Geary Danley involved? Wasn’t he the accomplice’s ex-wife?

And who said she wasn’t involved? Was the it the police OR was it the MSM SAID the police said it?


355 posted on 10/02/2017 2:55:23 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (The Left's family value: 'The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!' (Che Guevara, 1961))
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To: Eleutheria5

They don’t even know who wrote it.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Lesbian+fake+hate+crime

And we’ll probably NEVER be told the truth anyhow:

“To do what is right for some else, even though you know it may not go well for you, that is the character trait we are missing in the Air Force today.
I believe integrity has gone to the waste side at USAFA “
—Staff Sergeant Brandon Enos, (USAFOSI “Operation Gridiron”)
http://cryptome.org/2014/08/brandon-enos.pdf


356 posted on 10/02/2017 2:58:38 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: HLPhat

Making people feel vaguely guilty about stupid fake crimes is not going to build character, or keep anyone calm under fire. Assuming someone wrote it, they were expressing a thought. So if you find who it is and punish him, they’ll still harbor the same thoughts, just they won’t express them.


357 posted on 10/02/2017 3:04:39 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

>>find who it is and punish him

They don’t do that anymore.

Read SSGT Enos’ account of Operation Gridiron.


358 posted on 10/02/2017 3:07:42 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: MMaschin

Or like the abusive WIFE, who after hitting her husband screams at him “you MADE me hit you!!”....

... it happens to men too ... the above direct quote was as close as the wife of an acquaintance could ever to saying “I’m sorry” after her periodic unpredictable and unprovoked violent episodes ...

... she was a violent, highly-functioning alcoholic with all the symptoms of borderline personality disorder ... he was a nice guy who knew that if he EVER defended himself HE would be the one arrested .. so he never did. Finally he wisened up and left her ..


359 posted on 10/02/2017 3:27:21 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: uncbob
. . . much thought and planning . . .

There had to be. Perhaps even pre-execution active rehearsals. Moreover, as in Lee Harvey Oswald, does the participation require the decoy to be left incommunicado? Did Paddock die before, during, or after the shooting? I suppose now every occupant or employee will come under examination.

360 posted on 10/02/2017 4:17:46 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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