Posted on 10/05/2017 12:25:22 PM PDT by Bob Celeste
IMO the shooter did not need to strive for accuracy. If only a third of his bullets found their mark in that crowd, that’s still a lot of strikes. A panicked crowd stampede did the rest.
The guy has 20,000 targets and 72 minutes. Shocked he didn’t kill more. This was like shooting fish in a barrel so I don’t buy this story.
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So... the stadium scene.
I rather doubt that any such proof exists.
Check out Got News. They claim otherwise.
I have some military training, and I majored in mathematics and know something of probability.
It is true that accuracy at 500 yards with assault rifles shooting on a simulated fully automatic would suck.
But the shot grouping is not necessarily a function of accuracy, but of rate of fire and luck. If one person is hit by three bullets and another by 3...out of dozens of bullets spayed all at once, there is no evidence that the bullets weren't distributed fairly randomly in the area around them.
Moreover his contention that a non-military person would lack the logistical skill to smuggle that much equipment in is just stupid. Just about anybody could figure out how to just hide stuff in a lot of suitcases and take a lot of suitcases up. When they hell have you seen hotel personel checking suitcases when one checks in? Or counting them? Or counting how many trips one makes? He wasn't boarding an airplane.
His claimed expertise is being pushed way too far.
It was an area target. He had optics and a tripod.
Not difficult.
Fish in a barrel comes to mind.
He did not have to shoot at individual targets.
The fellow is talking about a single person as a target, not a dense crowd. That changes things completely. That is the sort of target that never happens (anymore) in warfare. Aiming is irrelevant, as the target is not an individual but at worst clumps of people many yards around.
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As for not being caught by hotel staff, the guy checked in with 10 bags. Hotel staff helped him to his room. He declined cleaning services and would not allow room service food delivery into his room. So there may well be an issue with staff training. But if you have been to Vegas, they are very busy and they see all kinds of weird stuff. As an example, O.J. went to a Vegas hotel room where they were selling sports memorabilia to steal his stuff back. I imagine those guys had a lot of bags to transport their goods.
I have some faith the investigation will reveal the truth. But to the point of the article, I was in the Army for 22 years, I qualified on a lot of weapons. I was the Range Officer for the SRT for a couple of years at one duty station. And I was on the Commanding Generals Pistol Team at Ft. Belvoir many years ago. I don't know the truth yet, but I am not seeing Rambo here. JMHO.
No truer words were ever spoken.
Bears repeating, endlessly.
Bkmrk.
He only fired for 10 minutes.
four rounds fully auto at 400 yards and all four hit the head?
Exactly. All you have to do is point the gun in the general direction of that crowd, and you’ll hit many people.
Tripod a must? I don’t think so. Could he have used one? Sure.
As for all the guns he lugged in, how many were long guns?
It will be interesting when the list is revealed. He could have put a number of guns into a bag, and simply moved them on a cart.
Some people request no housekeeping on a daily basis, for privacy concerns.
If asked what was so heavy, he could have stated he was getting ready for an event, and had lots of equipment.
Where did you get 72 minutes, it was like 12 or maybe under ten.
Sounds also like possibly an egotistical commando brain who writes in plenty of First Person style, happy to demonstrate how much he knows, what he opines, and therefore we must bank all of it, forthwith.
I really prefer generally to see and hear who it is speaking.
Did you read the part about multiple hits on the same body part?
Granted, it might be that the witnesses were not actually seeing what they thought they were seeing, but if a guy really was shot multiple times in the chest almost simultaneously, it means the narrative we are getting is a crock. But that is a big “if”. It’s more likely the witnesses were misinterpreting what they were seeing.
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