No.
It took 13 minutes for them to get to the shooters door.
He shot a Hotel security guy through the door, and probably committed suicide at that point, because the shootings outside the hotel stopped.
The SWAT team blew in the door an hour later. It likely took so long, because the shooter had stopped shooting, so they knew they could take the time to get it right.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-timeline-of-las-vegas-mass-shooting.html
WTH?
I didn’t post this thread.
No way would they wait an hour to enter the room...especially since the guy might be alive. I don’t think SWAT was even there at that time.
Good rational post.
> “It took 13 minutes for them to get to the shooters door. He shot a Hotel security guy through the door, and probably committed suicide at that point, because the shootings outside the hotel stopped. The SWAT team blew in the door an hour later. It likely took so long, because the shooter had stopped shooting, so they knew they could take the time to get it right.”
Yes, I don’t fault them for that. If he’d continued shooting (with over 20,000 persons as targets), then despite the risk I do think lightly armed police and guards should have tried to stop him. He didn’t, though. After one guard had already been wounded, the mere possibility that he was reloading wasn’t enough to justify trying to get him before the SWAT team arrived.