Thank you. Responses are a blend of my views and the previous thread:
#1 Photos of Stephen Paddock’s hotel room have been leaked, and one of those photos appears to show a suicide note. Why hasn’t the public been told what is in that note?
[I’ll ignore this - dumb question if there is an investigation in progress. You want answers from the person interviewed, not from what they heard on CNN.]
#2 Were there additional shooters? A taxi driver clearly captured video of an automatic weapon being fired out of a lower level window. A video from another angle and brief footage captured by Dan Bilzerian also seem to confirm ...
- These rhythmic flashes came from the fire alarm, which flashes to warn the deaf. Either that, or there was a stealth shooter shooting completely silent bullets that hit no one an hour after the event was over.
#3 Why were law enforcement authorities discussing “another suspect on the fourth floor”, and why isn’t the mainstream media talking about this?
- Fog of war. That was a false report based on someone seeing the flashes of the fire alarm, interpreting that as a second shooter, and reporting what they thought they saw.
#4 As Jon Rappoport has pointed out, it would have been impossible for Stephen Paddock to kill and wound 573 people in less than five minutes of shooting with the kinds of weapons that he is alleged to have used. So why won’t law enforcement authorities acknowledge this fact?
- Hitting 500 people in ten minutes with full auto would be shockingly easy. This was not aimed precision fire; it was area denial from overwatch, targeted on 22,000 people packed into two acres. It’s easy to keep a full-auto weapon on an area that large and hard not to hit several hundred people at random in ten minutes of shooting at a crowd that big and dense.
#5 How in the world did Paddock get 42 guns and “several thousand rounds of ammo” into his hotel room without anyone noticing?
- Suitcases. It takes less than a minute to separate the upper and lower of an AR into separate pieces (think of them as the stock and the barrel), both of which easily fit in a suitcase. And ammo? I’ve carried several hundred rounds to the range many times. Thousands? That’s what suitcases are for.
- It’s Vegas. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. No one asks questions.
#6 How did someone with “no military background” and that wasn’t a “gun guy at all” operate such advanced weapons?
- It’s easy with a .223. You point and pull the trigger. It’s more work with a .308, but that would just beat up your shoulder. It’s also Nevada. The entire terrain is filled with bluffs. You sit on a cliff in the middle of nowhere and pull the trigger. Practice hosing down two acres 300 yards from the base of the cliff until you get good at it. I’d guess one practice was enough. I’d also guess he did extra practices (.223 only, because that much .308 would hurt!) to enjoy the fantasy and wallow in evil.
#7 Why was one woman telling people in the crowd that they were all going to die 45 minutes before the attack?
- Evidence that this happened at all?
#8 Why did it take law enforcement authorities 72 minutes to get into Stephen Paddock’s hotel room?
- Because he stopped shooting at 10 or 12 minutes. Because he had been shooting .308 and their body armor would not stop that. Because there may have been indications or concerns about explosives and they wanted to evacuate the other rooms. Mostly because the cops were professionals, and they made the right decision based on the calmer tactical situation.
#9 Why did Paddock wire $100,000 to the Philippines last week?
- Because he expected to die and wanted to buy gratitude and fond memories from his rather odd girlfriend.
#10 Why was Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, in the Philippines when the attack took place? Did she know what was about to happen?
- Finally, a good question. I’d like to know that answer . . . once the investigation is complete and not before.
#11 Was Paddock on antidepressants like so many other mass killers in the past have been?
- Yes. This may be part of what triggered the attack.
#12 Why was ISIS so eager to take responsibility for this attack, and why was the FBI so quick to dismiss that connection?
- Because ISIS lies.
- Because today’s FBI lies.
#13 Apparently Paddock had earned millions of dollars “through real estate deals”. If he was so wealthy, why would he all of a sudden snap like that?
- Wealthy people are allowed top be crazy too.
#14 Why did he move so frequently? It is being reported that Paddock had 27 different residences during his adult life.
- He seems to have had difficulty relating to people (no debate on that point!). Nothing would tie that sort of man to one location.
#15 Why were nearly all of the exits out of the concert venue completely blocked?…
- Exits are often difficult to use, in part because otherwise people let friends in “for free” through the exits.
- Any shooter who has planned this sort of attack would attack the exits early on, to block their use and keep the victims corralled longer. Of course the exits were blocked.
#16 Why was a country music festival chosen as the target? Was the goal to kill as many Trump supporters and other conservatives as possible? And is there evidence that Stephen Paddock was connected to Antifa in any way?
- A good question. We will probably find out. The FBI should not talk about this until they are done interviewing people. Again, we don’t want their answers to be what they heard on MSNBC. We want their answers to be based on what they know from personal observation.