Posted on 10/05/2017 3:25:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Too many rumors are swirling around regarding the tragedy in Vegas from Sunday night. Let me start by dispelling with some of the questions floating around on the internet:
1. How did he get that many weapons into his room without being noticed?
A: With a luggage cart and ten suitcases over 3 days.
2. How did he fire off that many rounds without training?
A: A monkey can pull a trigger; and, who says he didn't have practice?
3. How was he able to kill that many people in such a short time?
A: He had 11 minutes firing on near full-auto (using a bump fire device) into a crowd of people that had no idea where the fire was coming from.
4. Why did he have so many weapons?
A: First, he was a psychopath. Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said it best, "No Ma'am, I can't get into the mind of a psychopath at this point."
Second, he probably thought he would be there for an extended period of time and perhaps thought he would heat up one or more guns. Maybe he wasn't good at changing magazines? Again, first answer is always a fit. Seriously, how can we apply reason to a psychopath?
5. How did he get his hands on fully automatic firearms?
A: Investigation has determined that he had bump fire or slide fire devices on 12 of his firearms, which make them sound like a full-auto and operate much like a full-auto. They are approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and are easily available (until now).
6. How was he able to remove a window with 800 pounds of hurricane glass without training? (I know, seriously, this was a question.)
A: With a hammer.
7. How did he get up 32 floors with 400 pounds of equipment?
A: With an elevator and luggage cart.
8. What about the sounds of gunfire coming from other directions?
A: It was an echo.
9. How does one man come to own $100K worth of weapons without being noticed?
A: He was rich. As far as what we know right now, all guns were purchased legally over a period of time from multiple vendors. Every dealer and serious collector at a gun show has that many or more, and they are not psychopathic mass murderer candidates.
10: How is it possible that he killed/injured so many in such a short time...without training?
A: He was able to fire uninhibited an unreported number of rounds into a massive crowd, where he couldn't miss hitting something. When we know more, it is likely that many of the injuries were not from gunfire but from the panic that ensued. However, considering the rate of fire and the mass of the crowd, it wouldn't be the least bit unreasonable to think that 50-70% of the bullets hit something.
11. What gun laws could have prevented this?
A: None. He had no criminal background.
12. What about laws preventing mentally ill people from getting firearms?
A: How does one accurately measure another's current mental stability or future propensity to become a psychopath among the group of every potential firearm purchaser?
13. What about the unidentified and unverified woman who told the crowd that a lot of people were going to die?
Possible answers: 1. It is made up nonsense. 2. She was drunk.
14. What about the shots coming from other floors?
A. Echoes, reflections of other things, reflections of the shooter across multiple reflective surfaces (Las Vegas is mostly glass)...
Response questions: Where in these locations was glass broken? Where in these locations were reports of gunfire from adjacent rooms? (That's how the shooter was quickly located.) How did these mysterious shooters so quickly police up all their brass and keep the fire alarms from going off with all the smoke?
15. How did the shooter manage to record a video of himself?
A. Ummmmm, I don't know, a tripod?
Finally, some questions for the conspiracy theorists.
How do hundreds of law enforcement officers secretly conspire to cover up evidence in one of the nation's worst modern massacres? What would be their motivation? Would conspiracy advocates be satisfied when they see video evidence of the shooter by himself committing the act and ending it by putting a gun in his mouth?
I could go on, but you get the picture. Please folks, stop with the conspiracy insanity and let the investigators do their jobs. Seriously, just stop.
Was he in the federal witness relocation program? I mean how can someone have so little known about him in this age when the NSA, Google and the Chinese know everything about everybody. I find his lack of a biography almost proof that he was something in another life and then had his information scrubbed.
As you’ll see in #258. I also observed that... Thanks!!
I’ve heard that all the lower floor windows can be easily opened. It is possible and the idea of a strobe light seems more nutty than the muzzle flashes of a gun when there were many people stating multiple shooters as well as the sounds of simultaneous guns not echoes.
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Door was not ajar. Security guard has pass key, as security guards usually do.
Not necessarily, but I do like the way he phrases it.
There are so many, and some posting under multiple names.
The strobe light has been proven. Again, and again, and again.
Videos show it flashing before AND 7 hours after the shooting.
The cab driver video show it flashing while there is no gunfire audible.
In the scanner recording an officer specifically mentions the strobe light after the firing stopped.
No, I’m not going to link anything. Look at my posting history where I’ve posted it in the past 2 days. Not worth my time to go back and look it all up since it’s now a debunked piece of hokum.
That type of glass is like the windshield of your car. It will break into small chunks.
And, when they do break, the shards are dangerous. with that short-handled hammer the perp supposedly used. I’n surprised he didn’t lacerate himself...
No, FR made it’s name in the era of Clinton Crimes, not Clinton conspiracies. People like Gonzo, MindBender26, GatorGirl, and many others had inside tracks to facts. They are all gone.
FR was also the inside source for where the Florida anti-Gore election stealing events were being held. FR-driven rally in Seminole County got case there sent to Tallahassee. Had they not, 4300 Bush votes would have been thrown out!
Like luxury skyboxes perched high above the glittering Las Vegas strip, Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas’ stylish guest rooms and suites are located on floors 35 to 39 of the Mandalay Bay tower, offering unsurpassed views of the world-famous Las Vegas Boulevard and surrounding desert landscape.
Saudi Prince owns Four Seasons Hotel
No, you do not “like to ask questions.” Your prior posts on other topics prove you are a far-left-lib just trying to mess with FReeper’s minds and discredit FR.
THE DUDE WAS A LONG-TIME GOV’T EMPLOYEE, RIGHT?
Wrong
When I saw the graphic pic of a dead body, the first thing I noticed is it looked like a MUCH younger body than the pics of the 64 year old Paddock. No #13 tattoo on neck and the beard looked different and a noticeable adams apple on dead body and tighter jawline of a younger person than a 64 year old.
WHY was the adjoin bedroom door LOCKED from the other side??
Do you have a link to this? I have not heard this yet.
There was never a neck tattoo... more hokum.
The A/C are from Janet Aviation.
A highly classified small fleet of passenger aircraft known as “Janet” is operated for the United States Air Force to transport military and contractor employees. It mainly serves the Nevada National Security Site (most notably Area 51 and TTR), from their terminal at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport. The fleet’s “Janet” call sign, from which its de facto name comes, is said to stand for “Just Another Non-Existent Terminal”
Janet has nothing to do with this shooter.
“Crazy doesn’t need a motive.”
Not true. Even a crazy person banging his head against the wall has a reason - just ask him.
Something motivated this guy to do what he did; it took time & effort, and planning - not the hallmarks of a “crazy” person.
Most of us are interested in learning what drove him.
Even Buckhead hasn't posted here in two years, and then it was only about a dozen or so times since 2012, when for all practical purposes, he quit posting regularly on FR.
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