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How does it take 72 MINUTES to crash that shooter's door??? [Vanity]

Posted on 10/02/2017 4:02:52 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6

My assumptions:

(1) The shooter's location should have been immediately apparent to LEOs.

(2) The volume of shooting and the mass casualties should have given LEOs an extreme sense of both importance and urgency.

A 72-minute response-time does not correlate with either (1) or (2).

In my absence of information, it smacks of LEO commanders carefully planning a tactical approach, getting all the details right before proceeding, when in hindsight what was needed was a quick rush of the door--in seven minutes, not seventy-two. What am I missing?


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To: rdcbn
The gun fire had stopped after about 10 min.

Can you provide a source for your assertion?

41 posted on 10/02/2017 4:37:36 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: W.

So will a shotgun.


42 posted on 10/02/2017 4:38:34 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: W.

Who is going to stand in front of or on the side of that door to use that passkey ?
Not me. HP rifle will go through any of it


43 posted on 10/02/2017 4:39:34 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: rey
Police are very cautious on their approaches now. The officers at the Boston bombing shot up a boat and waited an hour before approaching it. When Charles Whitman shot from the University of Texas tower, I believe it was only two officers who stormed the observation deck. Different attitudes, different methods.

but a number of civilians had long guns in their vehicles and started suppressive fire rather quickly. It was much easier to ID the shooter's roost in the tower than in the hotel.

44 posted on 10/02/2017 4:41:07 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
isn't there an ex-military policeman who WILL be the first through that door, even in the face of automatic gunfire?

Would you? Brave talk from your armchair.

BTW, where did you get the 72 minutes? I heard it was about a half hour. In any case the firing didn't last nearly that long. Witnesses said it was about 5-15 minutes. So yeah, I would wait at that point.

45 posted on 10/02/2017 4:42:53 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Same with Columbine, actually muuuuch worse.

It was HOURS the SWAT team was waiting outside.

Victims were audibly calling out that they were bleeding to death, etc.

The level of SWAT excuse-making at Columbine was....epic.

“Water coming down from sprinklers that had been set-off, blinking visual alarms also made for a confusing situation, the perimeter was not yet secured....a bazillion other ones, too.”

VERY many people died at Columbine while the macho SWAT team cowered and wet their collective pants.


46 posted on 10/02/2017 4:45:26 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Hebrews 11:6
Well...The police union has to certify the response plans to insure that safety, diversity, and media wage and gender of the responding officers meet with it's approval.

Then, as in every other mass shooting of the past few decades, there is the over-riding issue of finding spines stiff enough...

IMHO, 72-minutes would be a significant improvement over past school-shooting responses.

47 posted on 10/02/2017 4:45:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
Especially given that you know the hotel has its own armed security team.

ML/NJ

48 posted on 10/02/2017 4:46:06 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: a fool in paradise

Two bedroom suite with a living room between?


49 posted on 10/02/2017 4:46:07 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: ifinnegan

72 Minutes, see this NBC story

https://www.nbcnews.com/card/it-took-police-72-minutes-first-911-call-breach-paddock-n806836


50 posted on 10/02/2017 4:46:57 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: Hugin
Witnesses said it was about 5-15 minutes.

As I've asked repeatedly, can you provide a source for your assertion?

As far as my armchair quarterbacking: you don't know anything about me, whether my actions equate with my words.

51 posted on 10/02/2017 4:47:57 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: W.

A load of .00 buck opens doors faster than your passkey will.


52 posted on 10/02/2017 4:49:31 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: gaijin

Thanks. Just wondering if this is of the same ilk. Las Vegas is an obvious terrorist target, so much planning is sure to have occurred, especially regarding crowded concert venues. That planning may have been seriously flawed.


53 posted on 10/02/2017 4:51:22 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: ASOC
Having the full story can often times remove the mystery

Or it allows the powers-that-be the time to circle the wagons. (E.g. See the early reporting about Vince Foster.)

ML/NJ

54 posted on 10/02/2017 4:51:56 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Hebrews 11:6

My source is two witnesses interviewed on Fox. One said 5 minutes, the other 15.

Now where did you get your very exact 72 minutes?

And you’re right, I know nothing about you. So were you ever first through the door?


55 posted on 10/02/2017 4:53:53 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: gaijin

Another HUGE mistake at Columbine:

Dispatch told all terrified kids calling into 911, “You’ve got to STAY INSIDE”.

Well, uh....WHY..?

Inside was where the shooting was taking place, outside was more or less safe.

The people calling in to the cops had at least as much info as dispatch at that point, and that was still true 3 hours later.


56 posted on 10/02/2017 4:55:01 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: BusterDog

Thanks.


57 posted on 10/02/2017 4:56:02 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
Feel better now?

Only if I was assured you got a kitten..........


58 posted on 10/02/2017 4:59:36 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: CGASMIA68

Listening to the video, there is a lenghty gap between the heavy bursts.


59 posted on 10/02/2017 5:00:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Hugin
It's already been linked on this thread several times:

72-minute Rampage

As for me, keep wondering.

Anyway, thanks for the reference to the verbal news report. I'd prefer something written, but no one has provided it.

60 posted on 10/02/2017 5:02:44 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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