Posted on 10/03/2017 3:31:00 AM PDT by servo1969
As virtually everyone has noted from the abundant video footage of the incident, it certainly sounds as if the shooter used either fully-automatic weapons or semi-automatic weapons modified (through, for example, a bump fire stock) to closely simulate automatic fire. Moreover, the police are reporting that he had “more than 10 rifles.” He apparently rented his corner room for days and may have even set up cameras to detect when police were approaching. That’s all strange enough, but it’s even more unusual when you consider that his own family apparently didn’t know that he maintained a stockpile of guns.
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Put all this together, and the shooting is flat-out bizarre. It’s significantly different from virtually any other mass shooting in U.S. history. If the weapons were fully automatic, then he likely would have spent immense sums of money to obtain them legally, jumping through extensive legal hoops.
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So, a person who’s “not a gun guy” has either expended untold thousands of dollars to legally purchase fully-automatic weapons, somehow found them on the black market, or purchased and substantially modified multiple semi-automatic weapons — and did so with enough competence to create a sustained rate of fire. This same person also spent substantial sums purchasing just the right hotel room to maximize casualties.
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Given the firepower and the packed mass of people, it’s easy to see how the casualty count was so high, even firing from an extreme range (by the standards of mass shootings.) This was the University of Texas tower attack on steroids, conducted out of nowhere, with meticulous planning and at great expense, from a person who doesn’t seem to fit any normal profile of a mass shooter. There is much we have yet to learn, but for now, this is one of the most chilling and mysterious events I’ve ever seen.
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Or maybe the Deep State orchestrated this op in order to draw trump to Vegas and try to take him out.
The interview clip with his brother, Eric, of Orlando, is bizarre. His nervous grin, smirks, almost-like laugh is very bizarre....not the reaction you would expect from a family member of one who had just committed such a heinous, despicable, diabolical act of pure evil.
When I heard it on my car radio, my first thought was the same as yours. A belt-fed machine gun like an M60. Possibly an M16, etc, with a 100-round magazine, although I'm not intimately familiar with such things.
Like someone else has already posted in this thread, though, 600 casualties caused by one shooter? I find that rather suspicious...
Alex Jones is reporting that ANTIFA literature was found in the shooters room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biqql4js8lo
Good article.
He was a high roller gambler. They always have rooms for those folks.
Quite an assumption! Black market?
Why would he send them money when he could just buy some new younger ones?
I gave that advice to people I work with yesterday. Don't believe anything you hear in the first day or two. Yet...here I am this morning reading everything I can find on the subject.
On the 600 figure, I’ve heard no report that all were hit by bullets. Probably many hurt in crowd stampedes as people tried to escape.
Definitely sounds like two weapons, for sure! Thus, two shooters? Me thinks yes!
The key to his behavior is this person and her friends in the photos .
That’s so you, like the rest of us, can sort out the bullshit.
Then the real picture emerges.
We’re on to them. The old playbook doesn’t work anymore.
“A witness who was on stage said she was a life long native of Las Vegas and that hotel is always booked MONTHS in advance.
For a guy to show up a week ago out of the clear blue is ... well .... improbable.”
I’ve read elswhere that the perp was a high roller who was often comped a room by Casinos.
Just because the average Joe-tourist has to book months in advance doesn’t mean that it applies to pro Vegas players.
Yes good point - breaking down the total casualties into different types.
first of all the guy was very rich, second of all, you can buy almost anything if you have no intention of paying the credit card bill. I probably have $100,000+ in unused but available credit sitting on credit cards inside my desk attracting dust.
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