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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

Mr. Sheldon is an idiot.

His explanations are not the only ones that exist.

Every day brings a new twist and turn.

Where it falls apart for me os when Campos goes to the door, unarmed, and is met with a a hail of bullets and only gets hit in the leg.

Then, Paddock panics, even though he has a camera and can see the cavalry has clearly not arrived, and shoots himself.

Now we may find he had an accomplice.

And Mr. Sheldon, I don’t trust anyone in the Federal government.

The only investigators I am impressed with to fate is the Clarke County Sheriffs Office.


61 posted on 10/05/2017 4:01:50 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: JockoManning

There is obviously more going on, but the points addressed by this article are spot on. Let’s get beyond the obvious. The deep state wants confusion and people believing stupid things. Have you ever walked the streets of Vegas ? Not the tourists streets. The side streets. They are full of nutty people. Homeless that really cause a problem. They are frequently babbling to themselves. Let’s just get beyond the obvious to find the real truth.


62 posted on 10/05/2017 4:01:54 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: dragnet2

Crazy doesn’t need a motive.


63 posted on 10/05/2017 4:02:39 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: exit82

“to fate” =”to date” in previous post.


64 posted on 10/05/2017 4:02:45 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Kaslin

I guess the medical examiner has no objections to releasing his autopsy report


65 posted on 10/05/2017 4:02:58 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: JockoManning
I mentioned to some in my social network that we were about due for another major false flag.

So you are a major person of interest.

Before you are captured, can you tell us why you did it?

What were your goals and who helped you? Do you like Hillary?

Clearly you were involved, please enlighten us.

Why do you hate America?

66 posted on 10/05/2017 4:03:01 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: justa-hairyape

Well put. Agreed.


67 posted on 10/05/2017 4:04:30 PM PDT by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: smokingfrog

This guy must have lost all of his hearing and been choking on cordite.


68 posted on 10/05/2017 4:04:42 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Kaslin

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?

Yuppers, and a retiree who lifts a shot glass to his lips for exercise can absorb 800 rounds of rifle recoil


69 posted on 10/05/2017 4:04:45 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: TigerClaws; RegulatorCountry

Have you read this book?

The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing

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70 posted on 10/05/2017 4:05:52 PM PDT by Typelouder
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To: exit82

Sorry, but he makes perfect sense to me.


71 posted on 10/05/2017 4:06:46 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: exit82

Sorry, but he makes perfect sense to me. I’t just that you don’t get it.


72 posted on 10/05/2017 4:07:20 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: smokingfrog

Lots of gamblers go back to their rooms distraught over losing too much money.

Them windows are also designed to prevent suicides via leaping out of windows


73 posted on 10/05/2017 4:07:28 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: mad_as_he$$; All

So a coincidence?

Ditto the Malia Obama sniper nest he paid for but didn’t visit.

Ditto him having 50 pounds of tannerite but not using it?

This article is “stop making me think!” Insert fingers in ears and stomp
floor.

FBI also said San Bernadino were lone wolves. Nonsense. They lie to us and that’s all they do.


74 posted on 10/05/2017 4:07:44 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: humblegunner

Chuckleheads doing what chuckleheads do.


75 posted on 10/05/2017 4:12:23 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Kaslin
Steve Sheldon should have just posted this:

Nothing to see here...

76 posted on 10/05/2017 4:12:36 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Kaslin

Wow! Lots of Freeper conspiracy theorists ain’t gonna like this!

BTW, this article did absolutely NOTHING to dispel the grassy knoll question ...


77 posted on 10/05/2017 4:13:28 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Kaslin
Just tossing this into the fray...


78 posted on 10/05/2017 4:13:47 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Kaslin

Hello Earl Warren, I thought you were dead.

Sorry Snake, I had to...


79 posted on 10/05/2017 4:14:15 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Kaslin

He reportedly complained about country music.

He murdered country music fans.

Apparent connection.


80 posted on 10/05/2017 4:14:22 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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