Posted on 10/07/2017 4:36:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Police found a note in the hotel room of Stephen Paddock, the gunman behind the mass shooting in Las Vegas, that had hand-written calculations about where he needed to aim to kill as many people as possible.
In an interview that will be aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," Officer Dave Newton from the Las Vegas Police Department's K-9 unit said he noticed a note on the shooter's bedside table after officers entered the room. The note was next to one of the windows that Paddock smashed with a hammer to clear an opening to fire into the crowd from his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
"I could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for for the crowd," Newton said. "So he had had that written down and figured out so he would know where to shoot to hit his targets from there."
Using semi-automatic rifles that he modified with a "bump stop" to increase their rate of fire, Paddock on Oct. 1 killed 58 people and injured nearly 500 others. Paddock, 64, killed himself with a gun before police entered the room to find his body and 47 weapons.
More than 20,000 people were attending the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival when Paddock began shooting into the crowd, which was about 400 yards away.
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well, I guess there are the “automatic rounds” and then there are the “manual rounds.”
Actually it’s fairly simple to figure out, though we will never know for sure...
He probably assumed he had killed the guard after firing that many rounds and thought he wasn’t a threat anymore.
The shooter was under a fair amount of stress at the time, he might have fired his spray of bullets then killed himself before knowing the guard wasn’t dead.
He was rather disconnected from the people he was shooting at the concert, not even able to see people getting hit. It’s possible that by shooting the guard it suddenly became reality to him what he was doing and he had a rush of guilt and shot himself.
Just something to think about.
Anybody with a rifle could have at least put them into the broken window and disrupted him. Hell, I know several people who repeatedly hit 600 yard targets with iron sights.
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I would bet that he had good scopes on the rifles that didn’t have red dot sights. I suspect he spent some time looking through good binoculars or good scopes to see what was happening.
The pic I saw...he was face up and the top of his head was blown apart and his upper head was in a pool of blood.
Interesting, it seems the hard part is initially getting the money into the online casino.
RetiredTexasVet wrote:
He smashed two windows and nobody on the ground complained about falling glass?
Jane Long wrote:
“I’ve been asking that since the day this happened”
How do we know the windows didn’t get smashed till —after— the perp was shot?
and the authorities had secured the area?
This would imply a larger group was responsible, and Paddock was a Patsy...
Gun Free zone. Naughty, naughty. Thats a crime.
Looked pretty careless, shoving that snubbie in his mouth and pulling the trigger like that.
Very careless, indeed.
I already see this story being made to go away by virtue of no answers.
We can’t let them get away with that. I bet they know the motive and are trying to come up with a phony insanity reason.
The FBI would hide it if it was ISIS or far leftism. Why, because the FBI is no longer trustworthy. It has been Obamaized.
Sadly, there was no one available that evening with counter fire capability.
I was referencing 500 to 600 yards, not 400. At 400 it’s about 35 “
You could add a stick or something across the door jam and attached to the door. Heavy cable ties might do it. The stairway doors are always going to open into the stairway and not the hall. Broomstick from door jam to door jam, cable tied to the release mechanism would do the trick
I understand that people were trying to get the shotguns, but has it been established that those people were members of the concert audience? I don't think so.
I didn’t miss anything. It is a stupid statement - you can’t judge a book by the cover. Yes you can tell a lot from the cover. Can you tell everything? Of course not. Who is saying that?
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