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World Truth ^ | 10-9-2017 | Staff

Posted on 10/09/2017 7:29:46 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine

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To: SunkenCiv

I quoted directly from your post #4.

If you don’t want to discuss its contents (like the author’s belief that AR15s burn off ‘grease’), fine. Don’t discuss.

Tell me: do you grease up your AR? Does it burn off grease when you shoot it a lot?

The author of your cut-n-paste seems to do so. Or he imagines that to be normal.


41 posted on 10/09/2017 8:16:41 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: RC one

Let’s add to the list: Those who jump to conclusions such as yourself.

Nowhere is there the narrative you claim, yet, you claim I believe it. Dumb, just dumb.


42 posted on 10/09/2017 8:19:31 AM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Clutch Martin

The broken windows are on the same room.

This was such an abnormal event that for it to happen TWICE, _simultaneously_, at the SaMe LoCaTiOn, ain’t gonna happen.

Makes for a great story, and some statistics might be prone thereto, but this ain’t it.


43 posted on 10/09/2017 8:20:57 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

“Call me stupid...”

Ok, Stupid.


44 posted on 10/09/2017 8:21:08 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: NutsOnYew

Of the 550 casualties, all but about 150 were released within a day (probably NOT gunshot wounds), so say 150 still actually in the hospital and ~60 dead. That’s just over 200 gunshot casualties for however many rounds Paddock fired.

Note - I have not seen any official medical injuries tally so I am only guessing by reports how many may have actually been struck by bullets.


45 posted on 10/09/2017 8:23:16 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: NutsOnYew
Between ricochets, bullets passing through one body and into another, and the fact that, to the best of my knowledge, there has been no official listing or differentiation of those wounded/killed by gunfire or ricochets and those wounded/killed in the stampede to get out of the kill-zone, I would say that 300-400 bullets is MORE than enough to have caused that carnage.

And I am familiar with weapons, serving in the military for 21 years (and in the infantry for five), and owning several privately-owned weapons and using them regularly at the range.

46 posted on 10/09/2017 8:23:52 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: NutsOnYew

I wonder how many of those people were injured in the stampede, rather than actually wounded by bullets?


47 posted on 10/09/2017 8:26:14 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ctdonath2

Not sure what you mean, but broken windows were not in the same “room”, but two rooms of the suite.


48 posted on 10/09/2017 8:26:55 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

I would like to know who was shooting from over at the Bellagio?


49 posted on 10/09/2017 8:28:51 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Clutch Martin

” this turned out to be like a Coen Brothers misadventure where two snipers totally unrelated with the same plan in the same building “

It wasn’t a Nickelback concert. Conspiracy theory BUSTED


50 posted on 10/09/2017 8:29:58 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Jamestown1630

I was referencing a wild theory that there were actually, INDEPENDENTLY, two shooters at the same time with the same goal operating in very close proximity - but unaware of each other until the assault actually started.

You’re not going to have two mass murderers operating in the same hotel suite unaware of each other.


51 posted on 10/09/2017 8:32:04 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Celerity

HA! you win.


52 posted on 10/09/2017 8:32:24 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: CodeToad

Can you fire a bump-fire with the rifle sitting on a bipod?


53 posted on 10/09/2017 8:33:23 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

Can you swim like a duck while flapping your nose?

See, I can make up stupid questions just like you.


54 posted on 10/09/2017 8:35:05 AM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: CodeToad

That was not a good cover for your exposed ignorance.


55 posted on 10/09/2017 8:43:12 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: ctdonath2

No, not right next door and unaware of each other...


56 posted on 10/09/2017 8:43:14 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SunkenCiv
And if he’s got the camera in the hall, why? That suggests he had a plan to get out. If it were just a suicide mission, he wouldn’t need to know what was going on in the hallway.

I actually thought the opposite. I assume he knew that he was going to kill himself and that was the only non-negotiable thing in this event for him for one main reason, he used his own name to register and did nothing to hide his identity. .

I also assume he knew he had only minutes before he was located and that officers would be at his door. I believe that officers would have been at the hotel on a regular basis, it is a very large place. I believe he knew that once he started shooting that it would not take long for his position to be determined.

I assume that if he was a careful planner he would have made calculations as to how long it would take for someone to determine his position and the time it would take to confront him. If it were me I would assume that police and security would likely be positioned at the lobby and I would time the response time someone to get to his door. I assume he knew this time frame.

With those assumptions, I believe that if was not intent on suicide he would have registered as John Smith, had used a car other than his own, firearms that he did not purchase and then fired only for about 5 minutes or a period of time that is less than the time to go from the lobby to his room, and then exit.

I think the likely thing was that the camera in the hall was to give him an idea when his time was up. He could not chance being injured or caught if he wanted to commit. When someone showed up in the hallway it was his signal that his time was up.

57 posted on 10/09/2017 8:53:57 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: MHGinTN

It’s a typical CodeToad “contribution”.


58 posted on 10/09/2017 8:56:21 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Raycpa

The LV police chief has stated that there is evidence that indicates Paddock intended to escape.

It would be nice to know what that evidence is.


59 posted on 10/09/2017 8:57:14 AM PDT by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: CodeToad

whatever you say dude.


60 posted on 10/09/2017 9:03:32 AM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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