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Based on the Early Reports, the Las Vegas Shooting Is Very, Very Strange
National Review ^ | 10-2-2017 | DAVID FRENCH

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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To: windowdude
Don’t get me to lying but, it sure sounds like two different weapons. [or is the lighter sound bullets hitting the ground/objects?]

.223 & .308 or larger. JMO

241 posted on 10/03/2017 6:15:14 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: SamAdams76

Understood—but there are a lot of pieces of that situation that don’t tie together...the Vegas “shooter” and many folks in LV are dead as well. That does not validate the “official” explanation.


242 posted on 10/03/2017 6:15:23 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: cyclotic

Frankly I am no fan of LV and with Halloween not that far away look for LV to go for the haunted happenings. LV is simply a freaking place.


243 posted on 10/03/2017 6:15:40 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: magglepuss

How about the “Everyone Must Check In” sign? Or the one Dad caught on camera playing the role of FBI guy? Where was all the blood? Why were some of the kids at the Super Bowl a few years later? Or the comment from the coroner - “I hope this doesn’t come crashing down on the people of Sandy Hook.” Simple questions go unanswered.


244 posted on 10/03/2017 6:16:59 AM PDT by petercooper ("Democrats are on a collusion course with destiny in 2018." -- Bill Mitchell 5/26/17)
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To: TexasGunLover
I have dozens, but other than my wife, no one knows that.

Yup! And, my wife knows where they are and how to use them!

245 posted on 10/03/2017 6:17:37 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: magglepuss

I called your bluff and you are backtracking and looking for a reason not to meet me in Sandy Hook. But Freepmail me if you change your mind.


246 posted on 10/03/2017 6:18:28 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Scotswife
Press is reporting 2 weapons set up on tripods at each window & that he was moving back & forth between the 2.

I call BS! See Post #9 and listen.

247 posted on 10/03/2017 6:20:20 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Road Warrior ‘04
I call BS! See Post #9 and listen.

Sounds match the story exactly. You're hearing the rounds impact flesh and other objects. I've listened to all of the videos, and they're clearly all of a single weapon.
248 posted on 10/03/2017 6:21:36 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: yldstrk
"look at the evidence. 600 people shot, that is not one shooter."

If a 308cal. was used then one round could easy kill or wound 3 maybe even 4 people... The first volley sounded like maybe 50 rounds.... In a tightly pack crowd, that's could be lot damage...

Even a 223cal. could injure more then 1 or 2 folks...

249 posted on 10/03/2017 6:22:07 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: SamAdams76

I called your bluff and you are backtracking and looking for a reason not to meet me in Sandy Hook.


How did you call my bluff? WHy don’t you come to Texas Mr. bigmouth? There, I called your bluff. Tell us how and who you know that was killed. Simple.


250 posted on 10/03/2017 6:22:38 AM PDT by magglepuss
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To: magglepuss
How did you call my bluff? WHy don’t you come to Texas Mr. bigmouth? There, I called your bluff. Tell us how and who you know that was killed. Simple.

There was no conspiracy in Sandy Hook. I suppose you think Hillary shot down TWA 800 and that David Koresh was a nice guy too, eh?
251 posted on 10/03/2017 6:24:06 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: TexasGunLover

We’ll disagree on this one. Politely.


252 posted on 10/03/2017 6:24:17 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Road Warrior ‘04
We’ll disagree on this one. Politely

Ok, no problem.
253 posted on 10/03/2017 6:25:12 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: petercooper

One more thing I can’t stress enough. Every time you bring up SH, someone will come on and say they know someone who lost a child at SH, or a cousin knows someone who lost a child at SH. It has started to become a joke on the internet. No proof, just a lot of talk.


254 posted on 10/03/2017 6:25:41 AM PDT by magglepuss
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To: silverleaf
The real facts havent emerged from Charlottesville James A. Fields JR and his mother have disappeared from any news coverage whatsoever

Ever since they found out that the dead girl died from a heart attack and not from being hit, they lost interest.
255 posted on 10/03/2017 6:28:14 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: magglepuss

mow you are lashing out in anger because you have been called out for saying that Sandy Hook never happened and all those deaths were faked by actors by somebody who actually lives in the community. Bet you didn’t think that would happen. But it did and you are embarrassed. As you should be.

For any other Freepers out there who is in the Newtown area who wants to meet me for breakfast at the Blue Colony Diner (awesome food) to have a civil conversation, Freepmail me. Also, I work most days in midtown Manhattan so if anybody wants to meet there for some coffee sometime, Freepmail me.


256 posted on 10/03/2017 6:29:15 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Clutch Martin

As late as yesterday afternoon I was hearing on the TV news both that the guy killed himself and was killed by police...


257 posted on 10/03/2017 6:31:02 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Rebelbase

AND IS EXTREMELY AND PROFUSELY PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE CASINO, AT THE TABLES


258 posted on 10/03/2017 6:31:22 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Yes! I’ve been grumbling that very same thing to my poor husband every time something like this happens....


259 posted on 10/03/2017 6:31:53 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: TexasGunLover

So a medical examiner cracking jokes the day after the shooting is normal to you Texas?

How about the father who, whithin 24 hours is laughing on cnn cameras before doing an interview, is that normal to you?

Or the parents who smiled through the interview after using sharpies to write graffiti on their daughters coffin, normal?

How about all the parents who fake cried without a single tear, normal as well?

How about all the parents setting up “go fund me” accounts? Exactly what are we supposed to be funding? Is this normal to you?

How about the mother, who, when asked if Christmas was hard, responded by saying, “well, yes and no”.

How about going on tv hours or days after you just lost your loved one, normal?

How about accepting autopsy photos to identify your lost child, normal right?

We used to be able to call out this BS. But now, SJW like yourself want to shame everyone into believing their lies.

I have no idea what happened that day at SH, but I do know the story that was fed us is not the truth.


260 posted on 10/03/2017 6:31:54 AM PDT by magglepuss
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