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Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock calculated where to shoot to kill maximum number of people
The Washington Examiner ^ | October 7, 2017 | Kimberly Leonard

Posted on 10/07/2017 4:36:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: entropy12

what was his deductibles?...if he states he “earned” 5 million,he probably also claimed a ton of money as losses to decrease his taxes..


221 posted on 10/07/2017 7:34:50 PM PDT by cherry
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To: justa-hairyape

My reaction is to the explanation of Paddock’s motives. They don’t correspond to his alleged activities, particularly with respect to the shooting of the unarmed security guard.


222 posted on 10/07/2017 7:37:03 PM PDT by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We are up to 47 weapons now. This just keeps growing!


223 posted on 10/07/2017 7:38:04 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Maybe he WAS a lone shooter. Everybody else was obeying the no guns sign.

That's right. Thus far there is no evidence to suggest he wasn't the lone shooter.

224 posted on 10/07/2017 7:38:19 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Tammy8

Very interesting, and much better than Hillary’s ‘under fire’ account!


225 posted on 10/07/2017 7:40:38 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: justa-hairyape

No.

I like the synchronized compilation of videos.

I just remember watching a video that had 3 or 4 individual shots followed by a burst of higher frequency (223 vs 308?) sounding shots.

I’ll have to look around as time permits.


226 posted on 10/07/2017 7:40:54 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

” Fish in a barrel that shoot back are not nearly the fun”

I don’t see a practical way to carry something with a 600 yard, upslope range to a concert.

I understand what you are saying, but in this one case I don’t see how that would work.

iread a story that said people broke into police cars to try to get the shotgun unlocked- good intent, but a shotty won’t reach a target 600 yards away uphill.

The monster probably planned that out too.


227 posted on 10/07/2017 7:41:41 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: snarkytart

I would hope people that would choose to carry would be familiar enough with firearms to know better than to do that. Pistols were not going to do anything helpful. I might have felt better if I had been there if I was armed. Only because without knowing where the shooter or shooters were you might think you would encounter one trying to get away.

I don’t think anyone at the concert could have done anything if they had been armed, even with a rifle- unless they were a trained sniper already in a good position. The only ones that might have been able to do something if armed might have been people inside the hotel, near his room, if they had been able to get inside- likely they would have been shot just like the security guard but who really knows?


228 posted on 10/07/2017 7:41:49 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: familyop
It would depend on how many in the concert crowd had rifles instead of pistols.

say what? bringing in rifles to a concert? I see about zero chance of that happening.

229 posted on 10/07/2017 7:43:27 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: independentmind

We don’t really know his motives. Connection to ISIS seems to be the top motive at present. He obviously did not just snap. This man could video poker for 8 hours. As fast as humanly possible. No wild card poker. Super fast. He had determination as a strong characteristic.


230 posted on 10/07/2017 7:44:14 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Tammy8

He was shot through mouth and chest. Had to be sniped, if swat did not shoot him.


231 posted on 10/07/2017 7:48:20 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Really a strange case. He was out for maximum damage, supposedly calculating distance / elevation. Yet the security guard shows up and from 25 feet he kneecaps him though the wall. Bad shot or he didn’t want to kill him? Haven’t been watching tv much the last few days but I can’t recall any information about people seeing this guy showing up at a shooting range doing a little target practice.


232 posted on 10/07/2017 7:48:32 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let’s back into this...

He was aiming at a crowd of 22,000 that is, roughly. 400 yards away and 320 feet below.

Let’s assume 4 square feet per person in the venue, that’s an 88,000 square foot target at 400 yards and below you.

I’m not going to do the math here, but I’m going to invoke the ‘inverse square rule”. (I’m an engineer.). Basically, for half the distance you quarter the target.

A reasonable equivalent is hitting a 5,500 square foot target at 100 yards. Like hitting a large home at 100 yards.

With a smooth bore shotgun, iron sights, and cheap Winchester silver box slugs I can manage a 5 inch group at 100 yards. I bet I could hit a 4x8 piece of plywood (48 square feet) almost as fast as I could work the action.

His target was 5,500 square feet at 100 yards.

=> this was no feat of marksmanship.


233 posted on 10/07/2017 7:48:41 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: SaxxonWoods

The bigger question would be whether the attack date is significant in Islam. Many are.

Ashura for the year 2017 is celebrated/ observed on Sunday, October 1.

Ashura falls on the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram on the Islamic lunar calendar. For Shia Muslims the day commemorates the death of Husayn ibn Ali and for Sunni Muslims the day relates to when Moses and his followers fled Egypt and where saved by God separating the Red Sea.


234 posted on 10/07/2017 7:48:48 PM PDT by ocsmatw
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To: independentmind

The cameras, where they were and how the doors are perpendicular to the hallway, that the hallway is about 250 feet long are all facts. We know from the pictures of the doors that he shot through them. The only thing I don’t know and stated as such was how far down the hall the guard was when the spraying started and that it was possible he hit his own cameras because they were right there.

So explain to me where I tried to advance a narrative.


235 posted on 10/07/2017 7:49:03 PM PDT by mazda77
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To: Fitzy_888

And, I do get that the target is plainer and angled away and therefore smaller...but not much!


236 posted on 10/07/2017 7:50:41 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Yeah... it would have happened a lot sooner had someone in the place been ready to shoot back.

The media has not mentioned this and sadly, people on FR have apparently not thought of it. Almost no one could shoot back, even if they had arms. The chances of hitting some of the other hotel rooms would have been very high, endangering the occupants, who were innocent. I haven't heard anyone talk about that. Only sharpshooters with the right equipment could have engaged him.

237 posted on 10/07/2017 7:54:22 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: mazda77

I didn’t say that you were trying to advance a narrative.

I still don’t understand why a homicidal madman would not have exerted maximum effort to kill the security guard.

Shooting someone once indicates the exercise of restraint.

That doesn’t fit the narrative that has been offered to the public by authorities.


238 posted on 10/07/2017 7:56:17 PM PDT by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: plain talk

Might have been a nice hunting rifle in the trunk of a passing car or nearby parked car. What do you think was going through the mind of at least half of those country music lovers. Get to my car. Get my gun.


239 posted on 10/07/2017 7:56:18 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Yup. Thank God there was.


240 posted on 10/07/2017 7:58:25 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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