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Gunman who shot dead 58 people and injured 515 when he opened fire on a packed Vegas...
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 10-02-2017 | James Wilkinson For Dailymail.com and Ryan Parry, West Coast Correspondent In Las Vegas For Dailyma

Posted on 10/02/2017 8:48:28 AM PDT by Red Badger

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Fifty-eight people have been killed and 515 injured after a shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada The shooter has been identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, who opened fire from a 32nd floor room of Mandalay Bay Hotel after 10pm Sunday night Police say they breached Paddock's room and found him dead inside alongside an 'arsenal' of weapons Cops located his girlfriend Marilou Danley for questioning, but don't believe she's involved in the shooting Paddock was reportedly going through a divorce at the time He had been staying in Las Vegas since September 28 Paddock was retired and came to Las Vegas often to gamble, his brother said It's the deadliest shooting in U.S. history - eclipsing last year's massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida

America is reeling from the worst mass shooting in its history after 58 people were killed and 515 wounded at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night.

The shooting broke out on the final night of the three-day Route 91 Harvest festival, a sold-out event attended by 22,000 and featuring top acts such as Eric Church, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean.

Police say the shooter was 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, a resident of nearby Mesquite, Nevada, unloaded thousands of rounds on the festival taking place at Las Vegas Village from a room across the street in the Mandalay Bay Hotel at 10:08pm.

Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said that his officers breached Paddock's room on the 32nd floor and found Paddock dead inside, among an 'arsenal' of 10 firearms. Lombardo said that Paddock shot himself dead.

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To: Ciexyz
I’m skeptical that one shooter can kill 59 people and wound 500. Has to be more than one shooter.

OR, more likely, a lot of people were trampled by those trying to get out of the line of fire. There's always a lot of bogus speculations in these chaotic incidents.

81 posted on 10/02/2017 11:23:24 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: milford421

Another cause for reasonable suspicion IMO...

What has been the consistent pattern for almost every mindless mass killing for the past 15 to 20 years? That these mindless mass killings were caused by Muslims carrying out their Islamic jihad.

Why hasn’t it been determined at this point that there should be a presumption that until proven otherwise, this kind of mindless mass killing was from an Islamic jihadist.


82 posted on 10/02/2017 11:26:00 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: longtermmemmory; Jim 0216

...and islamist facilitator.


83 posted on 10/02/2017 11:37:52 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Jim 0216

Aretz Sheva says he’s a recent convert to Islam. His wife is Indonesian. I suspect she is Muslim also but I don’t really know.


84 posted on 10/02/2017 11:39:24 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Crucial
Aretz Sheva says he’s a recent convert to Islam.

Unconfirmed report but cause for reasonable suspicion given the pattern over the last 20 years of this kind of mass murder.

85 posted on 10/02/2017 11:47:06 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

In the US? Not really.


86 posted on 10/02/2017 12:00:33 PM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: Mariner
He had to use more than one automatic rifle to fire 1,000 rounds in less than 10 minutes.
Even the venerable SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) would MELT DOWN and cease to function before that.
He had several fully auto weapons.


Yes, he did apparently have several weapons. But your above points are wrong, military weapons can easily handle 1k rounds in ten minutes.. Sustained (short bursts) fire is around 2-300rds/min. Full cyclic (hold trigger down) can be 4-800 rds/min.

The SAW has a much lighter barrel than the 240 or the M2, but it would take 3-400 rounds of continuous fire to start getting some barrel droop. Spread over 10 minutes, 1k rounds is almost nothing.
87 posted on 10/02/2017 12:01:48 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: WVMnteer

Why not? List the mass killings in the US over the last 15 years beginning with 9-11 - aren’t they all or almost all done by Islamic jihadists?


88 posted on 10/02/2017 12:04:57 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: NautiNurse

Not only that, but I imagine a fair number of the wounded were injured by the resulting melee to get away.


89 posted on 10/02/2017 12:18:30 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Jim 0216

No. Like 4 were, I think.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/las-vegas-attack-deadliest-shooting-modern-us-history-50227779


90 posted on 10/02/2017 12:25:32 PM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: Jim 0216

That list is mass shootings, not terrorist attacks by other means.


91 posted on 10/02/2017 12:26:41 PM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: WVMnteer

Well, here’s an unformatted list what I would call a “pattern” of deadly Islamic attacks in the U.S., mass murders and otherwise.

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/american-attacks.aspx

For anyone wondering about the history of deadly Islamic terror on American soil since 1972, here’s what we came up with:

Date Country City Killed Injured Description
2017.05.19 USA Tampa, FL 2 0 A recent convert shoots two people to death for disrespecting Islam.
2017.04.18 USA Fresno, CA 3 0 Three men are gunned down at random by a convert to Islam yelling praises to Allah.
2017.01.31 USA Denver, CO 1 0 A pastor working as a security guard is shot to death at a transit office by a ‘radicalized’ Muslim.
2017.01.06 USA Fort Lauderdale, FL 5 6 A convert to Islam guns down five innocents in the baggage claim area of an airport.
2016.11.28 USA Columbus, OH 0 11 A Muslim immigrant goes on a stabbing rampage after expressing his desire to kill infidels.
2016.09.17 USA St. Cloud, MN 0 8 A former refugee goes on a stabbing spree at a shopping mall while speaking of Allah and asking potential victims if they are Muslim.
2016.09.17 USA NYC, NY 0 31 A former asylum seeker plants several explosives, one of which injures twenty-nine innocents. He also shot two policemen two days later.
2016.08.20 USA Roanoke, VA 0 2 A man and woman are stabbed maliciously by a ‘radicalized’ man yelling praises to Allah.
2016.06.13 USA Orlando, FL 49 53 An Islamic extremist massacres forty-nine people at a gay nightclub.
2016.02.11 USA Columbus, OH 0 4 Four people at a Christian-owned restaurant with an Israeli flag are slashed by a Muslim wielding a machete yelling ‘Allah Akbar’…
2016.01.07 USA Philadelphia, PA 0 1 A man shoots a police officer three times ‘in the name of Islam’.
2015.12.02 USA San Bernardino, CA 14 17 A ‘very religious’ Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead.
2015.11.04 USA Merced, CA 0 4 A student vowing to behead and ‘praise Allah’ stabs four others on campus.
2015.07.16 USA Chattanooga, TN 5 2 A ‘devout Muslim’ stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead.
2015.05.03 USA Garland, TX 0 1 Two Muslims stage a suicide assault on a conference critical of Islam.
2015.02.14 USA Detroit, MI 0 2 Two men are stabbed by a Muslim who first verified that they were unbelievers.
2014.12.18 USA Morganton, NC 1 A convert to Islam shoots an elderly man three times in the head after watching ISIS videos.
2014.10.23 USA NYC, NY 0 5 Four rookie cops and a female bystander are assaulted with an axe by a Muslim who says he is acting in the cause of Allah.
2014.09.25 USA Moore, OK 1 1 A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo.
2014.06.25 USA West Orange, NJ 1 0 A 19-year-old college student is shot to death ‘in revenge’ for Muslim deaths overseas.
2014.06.01 USA Seattle, WA 2 0 Two homosexuals are murdered by an Islamic extremist.
2014.04.27 USA Skyway, WA 1 0 A 30-year-old man is murdered by a Muslim fanatic.
2014.03.06 USA Port Bolivar, TX 2 0 A Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death and leaves a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality.
2013.08.04 USA Richmond, CA 1 0 A convert “on a mission from Allah” stabs a store clerk to death.
2013.04.19 USA Boston, MA 1 1 Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car.
2013.04.15 USA Boston, MA 3 264 Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as ‘very religious’ detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs.
2013.03.24 USA Ashtabula, OH 1 0 A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah.
2013.03.14 USA Vancouver, WA 0 2 Two people suffer knife injuries when a Muslim convert attempts to stab a non-Muslim to death over religious views outside a coffee shop.
2013.02.07 USA Buena Vista, NJ 2 0 A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants.
2012.11.12 USA Houston, TX 1 0 A 28-year-old American man is shot to death by a conservative Muslim over an alleged role in converting a woman to Christianity.
2012.06.15 USA Mission, TX 0 3 A man shoots his daughter, her boyfriend and her mother for letting the girl date a non-Muslim.
2012.01.15 USA Houston, TX 1 0 A 30-year-old Christian convert is shot to death by a devout Muslim for helping to convert his daughter.
2011.09.11 USA Waltham, MA 3 0 Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists.
2011.04.30 USA Warren, MI 1 0 A 20-year-old woman is shot in the head by her stepfather for not adhering to Islamic practices.
2010.04.14 USA Marquette Park, IL 5 2 After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to ‘take them back to Allah’ and out of the ‘world of sinners’.
2009.12.04 USA Binghamton, NY 1 0 A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for ‘persecuted’ Muslims.
2009.11.05 USA Ft. Hood, TX 13 31 A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.
2009.11.02 USA Glendale, AZ 1 1 A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too ‘Westernized.’ (10-20-09)
2009.06.01 USA Little Rock, AR 1 1 A Muslim shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center explicitly in the name of Allah.
2009.04.12 USA Phoenix, AZ 2 0 A man shoots his brother-in-law and another man to death after finding out that they visited a strip club, in contradiction to Islamic values.
2009.02.12 USA Buffalo, NY 1 0 The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce.
2008.07.06 USA Jonesboro, GA 1 0 A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing.
2008.01.01 USA Irving, TX 2 0 A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their ‘Western’ lifestyle.
2007.02.20 USA Nashville, TN 0 1 A Muslim cab driver runs over a Christian after arguing about religion. The young man’s ankle and hip are broken by the vehicle.
2006.07.28 USA Seattle, WA 1 5 An ‘angry’ Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies.
2006.06.25 USA Denver, CO 1 5 Saying that it was ‘Allah’s choice’, a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.
2006.06.16 USA Baltimore, MD 1 0 A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim medical student in an unprovoked terror attack.
2006.03.03 USA Chapel Hill, NC 0 9 Calling it the will of Allah, an Iranian immigrant plows his SUV into a crowd of students as ‘retribution’ for foreign policy overseas.
2004.04.15 USA Scottsville, NY 1 2 In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested.
2003.08.06 USA Houston, TX 1 0 After undergoing a ‘religious revival’, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4” butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man.
2002.10.22 USA Aspen Hill, MD 1 0 A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers.
2002.10.14 USA Arlington, VA 1 0 A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot.
2002.10.11 USA Fredericksburg, VA 1 0 Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas.
2002.10.09 USA Manassas, VA 1 1 A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team.
2002.10.03 USA Montgomery County, MD 5 0 Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period.
2002.10.02 USA Wheaton, MD 1 0 Muslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot.
2002.09.23 USA Baton Rouge, LA 1 0 A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers.
2002.09.21 USA Montgomery, AL 1 1 Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one.
2002.09.21 USA Atlanta, GA 1 0 Muslim terrorists gun down an employee at a liquor store.
2002.07.04 USA Los Angeles, CA 2 0 Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people.
2002.05.27 USA Denton, TX 1 0 Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard.
2002.03.19 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course.
2002.01.06 USA Tampa, FL 0 0 Fifteen year-old flies plane into an office building in Tampa. Suicide note reveals his admiration for Osama Bin Laden and desire to commit a terrorist attack.
2001.09.11 USA New York, NY 2752 251 Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured.
2001.09.11 USA Washington, DC 184 53 Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon.
2001.09.11 USA Shanksville, PA 40 0 Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building.
2000.03.17 USA Atlanta, GA 1 1 A local imam and Muslim spiritual leader guns down a deputy sheriff and injures his partner.
1997.04.03 USA Lompoc, CA 1 0 A prison guard is stabbed to death by a radical Muslim.
1997.03.23 USA New York, NY 1 6 A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack.
1994.03.01 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 0 A Muslim gunman targets a van packed with Jewish boys, killing a 16-year-old.
1993.02.26 USA New York, NY 6 1040 Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers.
1993.01.25 USA Langley, VA 2 3 A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters.
1990.11.05 USA New York City, NY 1 0 An Israeli rabbi is shot to death by a Muslim attacker at a hotel.
1990.01.31 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A Sunni cleric is assassinated in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur’an were invalid.
1989.11.06 USA St. Louis, MO 1 0 A 17-year-old girl is stabbed to death by her parents for bringing ‘dishonor’ to their family by dating an ‘infidel’ African-American.
1980.08.31 USA Savou, IL 2 0 An Iranian student guns down his next-door neighbors, a husband and wife.
1980.07.22 USA Bethesda, MD 1 0 A political dissident is shot and killed in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam.
1977.03.09 USA Washington, DC 1 1 Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings including a B’nai B’rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two innocents were shot and one died.
1974.04.16 USA Ingleside, CA 1 0 A man is killed while helping a friend move by Nation of Islam terrorists.
1974.04.01 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 A Nation of Islam terrorist shoots at two Salvation Army members, killing a man and injuring a woman.
1974.01.24 USA Oakland, CA 4 1 Five vicious shooting attacks by Nation of Islam terrorists leave three people dead and one paralyzed for life. Three of the victims were women.
1973.12.24 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is kidnapped, tortured and decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists.
1973.12.22 USA Oakland, CA 2 0 Nation of Islam terrorist kills two people in separate attacks on the same day.
1973.12.20 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 Nation of Islam terrorists gun down an 81-year-old janitor.
1973.12.13 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A woman is shot to death on the sidewalk by Nation of Islam terrorists.
1973.12.11 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is killed by Nation of Islam terrorists while using a phone booth.
1973.11.25 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A grocer is killed in his store by Nation of Islam terrorists.
1973.10.29 USA Berkeley, CA 1 0 A woman is shot repeatedly in the face by Nation of Islam terrorists.
1973.10.19 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 Nation of Islam terrorists kidnap a couple and nearly decapitate the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead.
1973.07.18 USA Washington, DC 8 2 Nation of Islam members shoot seven members of a family to death in cold blood, including four children. A defendant in the case is later murdered in prison on orders from Elijah Muhammad.
1973.07.01 USA Bethesda, MD 1 0 An Israeli diplomat is gunned down in his driveway by Palestinian terrorists.
1973.01.19 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 1 Muslim extremists rob a sporting goods store for weapons, gunning down a police officer who responds to the alarm.
1972.04.14 USA New York, NY 1 3 Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one.


92 posted on 10/02/2017 1:02:32 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Alberta's Child

And a multimillionaire who made his fortune in real estate. That explains the multiple properties he apparently owned.


93 posted on 10/02/2017 1:44:47 PM PDT by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: Jim 0216

Wow! Thank you for these incontrovertible facts. We are indeed engaged in a domestic war against Muslim fanatics.


94 posted on 10/02/2017 1:59:02 PM PDT by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: Red Badger

“It took police an hour and 12 minutes from the first 911 call to locate Paddock in the building and break into his room.”

Why did LVOD wait 72 minutes with an active shooter?

This sounds like the Pulse massacre where the Orlando PD also waited way too long.


95 posted on 10/02/2017 2:11:53 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Mariner
He had to use more than one automatic rifle to fire 1,000 rounds in less than 10 minutes. Even the venerable SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) would MELT DOWN and cease to function before that. He had several fully auto weapons."

From the videos I watched..... sounded like he emptied three 75 round drum magazines with a pause between reloads. That's only a total of 225 rounds. With a crowd that dense, factoring high angle trajectory and ricochets off the concrete pavement, each round could have inflicted wounds on multiple victims.

96 posted on 10/02/2017 2:13:18 PM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Gideon7

I had that question as well.

Was he shooting all that time, or was he a corpse for 45 minutes?.....................


97 posted on 10/02/2017 2:18:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Gideon7; Red Badger

Gideon7 wrote:

““It took police an hour and 12 minutes from the first 911 call to locate Paddock in the building and break into his room.”

Why did LVOD wait 72 minutes with an active shooter?

This sounds like the Pulse massacre where the Orlando PD also waited way too long.”

Hmmmm... Why —did— it take 72 minutes?

Prayers UP for all those innocents that were shot...


98 posted on 10/02/2017 3:47:57 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

This is what I want to know, have not heard a reason.


99 posted on 10/02/2017 4:12:31 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: robroys woman

Astute point - exactly what I was wondering.

That is indeed a lot of bullets.


100 posted on 10/02/2017 4:30:58 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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