Posted on 10/05/2017 3:25:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Too many rumors are swirling around regarding the tragedy in Vegas from Sunday night. Let me start by dispelling with some of the questions floating around on the internet:
1. How did he get that many weapons into his room without being noticed?
A: With a luggage cart and ten suitcases over 3 days.
2. How did he fire off that many rounds without training?
A: A monkey can pull a trigger; and, who says he didn't have practice?
3. How was he able to kill that many people in such a short time?
A: He had 11 minutes firing on near full-auto (using a bump fire device) into a crowd of people that had no idea where the fire was coming from.
4. Why did he have so many weapons?
A: First, he was a psychopath. Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said it best, "No Ma'am, I can't get into the mind of a psychopath at this point."
Second, he probably thought he would be there for an extended period of time and perhaps thought he would heat up one or more guns. Maybe he wasn't good at changing magazines? Again, first answer is always a fit. Seriously, how can we apply reason to a psychopath?
5. How did he get his hands on fully automatic firearms?
A: Investigation has determined that he had bump fire or slide fire devices on 12 of his firearms, which make them sound like a full-auto and operate much like a full-auto. They are approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and are easily available (until now).
6. How was he able to remove a window with 800 pounds of hurricane glass without training? (I know, seriously, this was a question.)
A: With a hammer.
7. How did he get up 32 floors with 400 pounds of equipment?
A: With an elevator and luggage cart.
8. What about the sounds of gunfire coming from other directions?
A: It was an echo.
9. How does one man come to own $100K worth of weapons without being noticed?
A: He was rich. As far as what we know right now, all guns were purchased legally over a period of time from multiple vendors. Every dealer and serious collector at a gun show has that many or more, and they are not psychopathic mass murderer candidates.
10: How is it possible that he killed/injured so many in such a short time...without training?
A: He was able to fire uninhibited an unreported number of rounds into a massive crowd, where he couldn't miss hitting something. When we know more, it is likely that many of the injuries were not from gunfire but from the panic that ensued. However, considering the rate of fire and the mass of the crowd, it wouldn't be the least bit unreasonable to think that 50-70% of the bullets hit something.
11. What gun laws could have prevented this?
A: None. He had no criminal background.
12. What about laws preventing mentally ill people from getting firearms?
A: How does one accurately measure another's current mental stability or future propensity to become a psychopath among the group of every potential firearm purchaser?
13. What about the unidentified and unverified woman who told the crowd that a lot of people were going to die?
Possible answers: 1. It is made up nonsense. 2. She was drunk.
14. What about the shots coming from other floors?
A. Echoes, reflections of other things, reflections of the shooter across multiple reflective surfaces (Las Vegas is mostly glass)...
Response questions: Where in these locations was glass broken? Where in these locations were reports of gunfire from adjacent rooms? (That's how the shooter was quickly located.) How did these mysterious shooters so quickly police up all their brass and keep the fire alarms from going off with all the smoke?
15. How did the shooter manage to record a video of himself?
A. Ummmmm, I don't know, a tripod?
Finally, some questions for the conspiracy theorists.
How do hundreds of law enforcement officers secretly conspire to cover up evidence in one of the nation's worst modern massacres? What would be their motivation? Would conspiracy advocates be satisfied when they see video evidence of the shooter by himself committing the act and ending it by putting a gun in his mouth?
I could go on, but you get the picture. Please folks, stop with the conspiracy insanity and let the investigators do their jobs. Seriously, just stop.
I went to GoogleEarth and found out why: A large porch-like roof extends away from the window area around the second floor. The glass chunks would have to sail away from the wall a pretty good distance before they’d clear the low roof and impact the ground.
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0921158,-115.1745392,299m/data=!3m1!1e3
Why did this ahole push them 2 tacky chairs together and nest 1 gun I it?
Answer, This guy was a NUT
He was not shooting straight down.
I count 8 guns from the diagram
Where did they come up with 23 with 12 bumpfire stocks?
The point I am making is the Media and public hysteria is shit
............but sometimes, people are just crazy.
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy”
Haven’t read the thread yet, but I’m sure it’s a hoot with the usual suspects donning their tin foil hats.
Thanks for posting this. Nice to see some common sense for a change.
Sometimes its that simple
Perhaps we should right a law...
I counted 8 also.
But the graphic says the “dots” are “weapons identified from photos.
We have not yet seen photos of the entire suite yet.
I was wondering why the 2nd breach? Why would paddock close the door to the 2nd room if he were going from one broken window to the other to shoot?
That is a conflicting part of the events. Have seen it reported that police were shot at by 200 bullets. After they found the guard shot. You have to wonder why Paddock would fire 200 shots at an unarmed guard. He knew who was out there cause he had three cameras looking into hallway. So I think the 200 were sent at the body armored officers with guns. Just a few at guard.
If I remember the picture of the suitcases on the floor correctly, they still had some guns inside. I’ll try to find it again. Also, they haven’t released pics of the bedroom, maybe more there.
Hotel employees noted the glass falling. Think it was reported on police scanner by police.
There is no official story yet.
trying cases without reason In public lead to mob scenes
Certainly the judiciary and press should be looked at but brother, I FEAR MOB RULE
I would bet the majority of inured were trampled
It appears to me that this guy was a nut in a nutty family but before we as a country go nuts lets do our due diligence and gather facts before picking up pitchforks to shred the 2nd or 1st
Micheal Rivero? Is that you?
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