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'He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped' -Las Vegas shooter's brother says family is (TR)
Daily Mail ^ | October 2, 2017 | Daniel Bates

Posted on 10/02/2017 5:42:48 AM PDT by Perseverando

Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas Village early on Monday morning killing at least 50

His brother Eric tells DailyMail.com his family have no idea what happened to make him shoot

'He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something,' he said

The brother of the Las Vegas shooter said that he was a normal guy who must have 'snapped' before carrying out the worst mass shooting in American history.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Eric Paddock said that 'something happened' to make his brother Stephen kill at least 50 people and injure 200.

Eric said that there was 'absolutely no indication he could do something like this' and said that Stephen had no political or religious affiliation.

He said: 'He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something'.

Speaking from his home in Orlando, Florida, Eric said: 'We know absolutely nothing, this is just, we are dumbfounded.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: lasvegas; lefty; mandalaybay; paddock; stephenpaddock
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To: Sooth2222
Just to go a bit further -- a semi-automatic M2 would be perfectly legal. People buy "parts kits" of machine guns with the fully automatic receiver cut into pieces, and also purchase a semi-auto receiver to build a semi-automatic and therefore legal firearm around, using all of the other parts in the kit.

This is probably more commonly done with AK47s but apparently can also be done with M1919s and M2s.

161 posted on 10/02/2017 6:46:35 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Gun buybacks are one of the most ineffectual public policies that have ever been invented")
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To: Daniel Ramsey

I don’t have FB or Twitter either. Resist the Borg.


162 posted on 10/02/2017 6:47:19 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Sacajaweau
b. 1953 That makes him possibly Nam vet.

Little bit young for that. I was born in '53. By my age it was draft lottery. I mean, yes, I could have gone to Vietnam, but my number was high. By the time I turned 18 the war was winding down.

163 posted on 10/02/2017 6:47:37 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: Godebert; SkyPilot

I’ll wager his brother is lying through his teeth because they had possible (read that as “most likely did have”) knowledge of him and his beliefs, religious and/or political and did nothing about it.

But that’s just $0.02.

There will be people coming out of the woodwork that knew this guy. Just watch.

Some of them may be nothing more than attention-hounds. Some may actually give real info.


164 posted on 10/02/2017 6:48:46 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rusty0604
I was thinking the same thing but can’t remember which shooting he was responsible for, can you tell me?

James Hodgkinson, Alexandria VA shooter.

165 posted on 10/02/2017 6:49:50 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: longtermmemmory

That should have read; “Another article says; “No”.


166 posted on 10/02/2017 6:50:08 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: JudyinCanada

I just read an Australian paper that said she was Australian, originally from the Philippines

Her name and looks tells me she’s likely Filipina rather than Indonesian.


167 posted on 10/02/2017 6:50:13 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick? #GoodbyeGoodell)
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To: Perseverando

It should be noted that his girlfriend spent at least some time in Dubai.


168 posted on 10/02/2017 6:50:21 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Hitlers Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: Perseverando

Nancy Pelosi’s “Oh God” brain freeze on last week was the trigger


169 posted on 10/02/2017 6:52:00 AM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: PeterPrinciple

One of the earlier reports. Yazzie has a FB page without much on it. 12:15 a.m.

A concert-goer says he heard what sounded like fireworks while he was watching Jason Aldean’s performance at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival Sunday night.

Thirty-six-year-old Kodiak Yazzie said the music stopped temporarily and started up again before another round of pops sent the performers ducking for cover and fleeing the stage.

As the 40,000 fans in the crowd began to flee, Yazzie took cover and said he saw flashes of light coming from the Mandalay Bay hotel tower high above.

The bursts of pops would start and stop for more than five minutes. He says he saw dozens of ambulances as he ran for safety. He later got a Lyft driver to take him home to suburban Henderson.


170 posted on 10/02/2017 6:52:44 AM PDT by campfollower (Peace through Strength)
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To: Sooth2222

I bet they will find most of the guns were SKS because its cheap and so is the ammo, and i know first hand what happens when you fire a chinese sks with a dirty cosmoline packed firing pin, it fires, and fires until the mag is empty.


171 posted on 10/02/2017 6:53:04 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

People that snap kill people or kill them selves. This is a statement.


172 posted on 10/02/2017 6:54:51 AM PDT by drunknsage
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To: ryderann

...or not on his meds.


173 posted on 10/02/2017 6:55:37 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: Perseverando

First indication he is an Uber-Lib.
If he had ever even watched Fox News once, the MSM would already be reporting it.


174 posted on 10/02/2017 6:56:53 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: 4yearlurker

A website called “Heavy” which was linked to the Facebook page when I looked at Eric Paddock, reports that the brother and the family, including a 90 year old mother who lives near the brother, are afraid people are going to attack them now. Really? That’s so weird.


175 posted on 10/02/2017 6:56:57 AM PDT by campfollower (Peace through Strength)
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To: xzins
Either he snapped or something big is being missed

Or something big is being buried by the left wingers in the media.

176 posted on 10/02/2017 6:58:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: SaveFerris

I thought the initial witness report by a guy named Yazzie on ABC news was strange. The guy reports somehow to ABC that he saw shots from the hotel and then ran and caught a Lyft home to a suburb. Just weird.


177 posted on 10/02/2017 6:59:50 AM PDT by campfollower (Peace through Strength)
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To: caww
Was in the hotel from sept 28th on...

...and with a concert like that, and that close to the venue, think about the booking time for the room. The room had to be high and on that very wing, (side) of the hotel, one would have to ask for THAT view. And with the concert fans, how long ago would one have to book to get that particular kill perch? My bet is this was planned for months. It would be interesting to know when the room was booked. (“Snapped” is BS).

178 posted on 10/02/2017 7:00:25 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: SaveFerris

The dead shooters girlfriend is an Indonesian Muslim who was married previously to left wing moveon.org activist Geary Danley. The country music performer at the time of the massacre was Jason Aldean, who said in media interviews in the past that he was pro Trump.


179 posted on 10/02/2017 7:00:27 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: COBOL2Java

Thank you.


180 posted on 10/02/2017 7:00:54 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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