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Las Vegas shooting: At least 50 dead, more than 200 injured in massacre
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Posted on 10/02/2017 3:48:25 AM PDT by Perseverando

A gunman turned a Las Vegas concert into a killing field Sunday night, murdering at least 50 people and injuring more than 200 others.

The suspect was identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock and authorities said they were "confident" Paddock's roomate, Marilou Danley, had been located. Officials previously described Danley as a person of interest.

Shooting in Las Vegas. People fleeing (video from the Mandalay Bay hotel) pic.twitter.com/hs98J5uK6T — Eiki Hrafnsson (@EirikurH) October 2, 2017

Authorities said one on-duty officer was in critical condition and another was wounded in the shooting. Two off-duty police officers attending the concert were killed.

The gunman, who fired down on the concert from a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, was killed by police.

Gun shots!!! Vegas. Pray to god. Love you guys. Love you Pearl.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: lasvegas; mandalaybay; paddock; searchworks; stephenpaddock
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To: wyowolf

Think law abiding citizens and the media might start taking antifa and the left seriously soon?? Or maybe we’ll capitulate to the left’s demands and maybe they’ll leave us alone?

/sarc


61 posted on 10/02/2017 4:54:20 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Alberta's Child

What security? He was a hotel guest, if you think Vegas hotel security will start searching ever hotel guests bag you don’t know much about Vegas. Big events like this are normal here, they aren’t going to “lock down” the hotel everytime.

Also, police found multiple weapons which explains the different sounds. AR or AK is not hard to make full auto or just use a bump fire stock.


62 posted on 10/02/2017 4:54:23 AM PDT by BootsOfEscaping
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To: bigdaddy45

Yeah, I believe it. What do you believe?


63 posted on 10/02/2017 4:55:04 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: raybbr

Yeah, you’re the expert.


64 posted on 10/02/2017 4:55:46 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Perseverando

Cue the liberal gun grabbers


65 posted on 10/02/2017 4:56:12 AM PDT by The Louiswu (MAGA)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

It is fully automatic.


66 posted on 10/02/2017 4:56:34 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: wyowolf

Amazing that considering I live in Israel, the absolute worst terror attack we’ve ever had here is 37 from the Coastal Road Massacre in the 1970’s...and that was basically a commando infiltration by sea to Lebanon.

Yet in the past 2 years alone we’ve had 2 50+ massacres in the US. 1 Islamic, 1 apparently not.


67 posted on 10/02/2017 4:57:20 AM PDT by Jaysin
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To: TTFlyer

It’s not so much the country as it is the people who think so much of themselves that they believe the violent crimes they’re about to commit will be pleasing to their god and good for the world as a whole. They’re so sure of themselves that they volunteer their service for a suicide mission as a grand noble gesture. These things happen everywhere nowadays and the USA itself is not to blame. This kind of terrorism is not cultivated by our society. It is being borrowed from traditional Islamic extremists elsewhere in the world. No good citizens knowingly grow it in their gardens at home in America.


68 posted on 10/02/2017 4:58:50 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Jaysin

The left and islam share a common goal, the destruction of western civilization.


69 posted on 10/02/2017 5:00:07 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Dusty Road

We’ll see. Probably best to wait for all of the facts as usual.


70 posted on 10/02/2017 5:01:57 AM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Jaysin

It’s our own fault! We refuse to believe that there are people out there that will do these things, them act amazed when it happens. Israel understands!


71 posted on 10/02/2017 5:03:05 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Jaysin

America should be 40 times more likely to have such an event as Israel, just based on population.


72 posted on 10/02/2017 5:03:40 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: BootsOfEscaping
Right. I was referring to a hypothetical scenario where "lock-down" security measures became the norm for large crowd events like this.

My point is that people who attend these events -- and those who organize them -- are going to begin expecting this type of security, which is why events like this are going to disappear.

73 posted on 10/02/2017 5:07:10 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Perseverando
NO MATTER WHAT WEAPON WAS USED, IT STILL WASN'T AS DEADLY AS A TRUCK.(stolen from Ted in Tallahasse). 86 killed, 500 wounded in Nice, France. Whether it is a truck or a gun, it doesn't matter because they are just tools. We get these stories only when muslims and madmen use them for reasons NOT in their inherent design.

This needs to be said before ANY talk of gun control with your friends at work this AM: "Almost as deadly as the truck used in Nice, France". THAT is how you deflate your anti gun friends/family/coworkers/neighbors.

74 posted on 10/02/2017 5:07:57 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Thou shall not kill. The bloody murderer earned his stripes on the way down to his fiery pit below. The 32nd floor of the Mandalay is the last highest point to heaven he will ever know.


75 posted on 10/02/2017 5:08:49 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: proud American in Canada

Reporter to Julie: “How did that make you feel?”

Have a nice “beauty” sleep on your so rudely interrupted birthday.


76 posted on 10/02/2017 5:09:13 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: RC one
but after listening to the gun fire, I think he had a trigger crank or a slidefire stock on a semi-auto weapon.

Agreed.

77 posted on 10/02/2017 5:12:58 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: wyowolf

One would hope (though it doesn’t matter now) that the shooter was some kind of nut with an ideology or cause as a reason for going berserk but sometimes it all boils down to not being properly potty trained as a small child...


78 posted on 10/02/2017 5:24:10 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Perseverando; Travis McGee

jimmy shiflett?


79 posted on 10/02/2017 5:26:10 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: TTFlyer

Being reported he had eight guns, two platforms and cameras .


80 posted on 10/02/2017 5:36:31 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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