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Please Stop With the Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Las Vegas Shooting
Townhall.com ^ | October 5, 2017 | Steve Sheldon

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: conspiracytheory; grassyknoll; guncontrol; lasvegasshooting; magicbullets; yeaaaaaaaa
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To: Kaslin
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." 

What was the source of this psychiatric evaluation?

Seriously, this article is nonsense.
301 posted on 10/05/2017 8:38:45 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: smokingfrog
Look a the photo at the beginning of the article. Those windows are not tempered "safety glass". Just look at the angles and sharp points...

I'm very familiar with tempered "safety glass".

My son bounced a BB off of a brick on our patio and the ricochet dinged the lower corner of a tempered glass sliding door. Over the course of 24 hours, that glass sat there and slowly crumbled into ~1/4" chunks. Fortunately, it was double-pane, and we were able to stay inside and watch the disintegration of the outer pane in safety.

The undisturbed sheet of glass stayed right in place as it crumbled -- and, it was only when I gave the whole door a good bump -- that the sheet collapsed into a pile of ~1/4" "cubes" on our patio...

That gold-coated "Hurricane" glass is definitely not the same...

302 posted on 10/05/2017 8:39:03 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias | "Islamists": Satan's assassins | "Moderate Muslims": Useful idiots.)
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To: Bulwyf

Garbage from a conspiracy lunacy click-bait website.

They even use a picture of the totally debunked strobe light to try to support their awful reporting.

Not worth clicking on if you haven’t already.


304 posted on 10/05/2017 8:39:32 PM PDT by TruBluKentuckian
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To: mylife

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Dude was a CIA asset (useful idiot - psychotropic drug user) and was fed cash to keep him available for tasks such as the Route 91 massacre.

Mystery solved.
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305 posted on 10/05/2017 8:39:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Paladin2

One cannot prove a negative. I cannot prove I am not a CIA trained killer, nor can anyone else,


306 posted on 10/05/2017 8:40:39 PM PDT by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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To: Strac6

When is a Door not a Door?


307 posted on 10/05/2017 8:41:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Brown Deer

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Your post is the nonsense.

He was a known psychotropic drug user.
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308 posted on 10/05/2017 8:42:54 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Paladin2

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>> “When is a Door not a Door?” <<

When its a Bottle!
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309 posted on 10/05/2017 8:43:59 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: IndispensableDestiny
"I suspect most of the spent shells landed there too. "

Well, they should be counted by now.

310 posted on 10/05/2017 8:44:18 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Kaslin

He was part of a larger plot—a plot to overthrow Trump. Its a set up for something else. He may have been funded by North Korea, Iran or RUSSIA! I believe something big is coming SOON!


311 posted on 10/05/2017 8:44:52 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: bushpilot2

THAT is a strange deal.


312 posted on 10/05/2017 8:45:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Bulwyf

Not saying it’s not possible, just saying you have to go with Occam’s Razor first. And most of those nuts are one cop encounter away from being arrested anyway.


313 posted on 10/05/2017 8:46:16 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: editor-surveyor

and the sheriff knew that immediately after the shooting, how?

You are full of it!


314 posted on 10/05/2017 8:46:24 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: TruBluKentuckian

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Garbage from a neocon numb nuts website.
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315 posted on 10/05/2017 8:46:28 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

As soon as I saw “chemtrails” and “Illuminati” listed as topics I knew we were in la-la land.


316 posted on 10/05/2017 8:48:21 PM PDT by TruBluKentuckian
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To: Steve_Seattle
"...anyone who disagrees is treated as a witless tool of the CIA. "

Can you prove that you are not CIA/IC? ;-)

317 posted on 10/05/2017 8:48:56 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: justa-hairyape

Ignore that comment. Thought you were referring to person who said they were all going to die that night. Will check link.


318 posted on 10/05/2017 8:49:51 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Kaslin

Sheldon is obviously in on it.


319 posted on 10/05/2017 8:49:58 PM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Brown Deer

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The sheriff knows his county, because he does his job.

Just because your head is full of soggy cotton candy, don’t project it on anyone else.
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320 posted on 10/05/2017 8:50:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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