Posted on 10/03/2017 10:06:56 AM PDT by Twotone
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As often in America, it was met with a great deal of heroism by ordinary men and women rising to the occasion: There was, for example, an Englishwoman in a wheelchair who'd been seated on a raised platform so she could get a better view of the concert. If it were every man for himself, it would have been easy to leave her there, trapped on the dais, exposed to the gunman. Instead, as everyone fled, those around her nevertheless carried her to safety and raised her wheelchair over the fence they scrambled over. There were many stories like that throughout the day, far outweighing the grotesque Tweets glorying in the slaughter of presumed Trump voters. Twitter is an idiotic medium, but not, happily, a representative one.
I had thought by last night we would know more about Stephen Craig Paddock. By now the usual social-media non-paper trail and petty-crime police records and mental-health issues have emerged. Instead, nothing has - except some bizarrely distinctive details: He wasn't a loner, but lived with his girlfriend - an Australian citizen currently in Japan, but planning to return to the US today. He was not the usual loser, but a multi-millionaire. He had no apparent interest in guns and no military training, but he demonstrated remarkably lethal proficiency, either with semi-automatics he modified or with a genuine automatic he somehow acquired, a weapon that has been used in precisely three crimes in America since 1934. He didn't "snap", but instead calmly planned his act, identifying and securing the perfect corner suite in a massive hotel and then calmly moving in dozens of weapons over four days and constructing platforms in front of those two windows.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
bttt
What’s this from the guy in the next room saying there were multiple shooters and a security guard on his floor was murdered ? It’s the first I’ve heard of this .
I’ll bet he loves the smell of napalm in the morning.
White Liberal Elite Millionaire Stephen Paddock murdered 59 Trump supporters at a Country Music Concert...
If a Southern white conservative drove up to New York and shot up a bunch of liberals at a Guggenheim Art Museum Event would the press ‘muse’ about the possibility he was a conservatives that hated liberals?
You betcha they would...
That will be a poster some day...
Gotta love him.
Or at least the new “EFF YOU!!!” meme for just about any occasion.
That’s great. First time I’ve seen that pic.
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