Posted on 10/09/2017 9:55:28 AM PDT by Kazan
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, strobe lights, 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.
There is apparently a site in the desert not too far from his home where people go to shoot.
I only have one single question...since they’ve admitted that he would come into town for a weekend, and potentially spend near $1-million, and this was a somewhat regular thing....I would just like to hear the IRS folks explain his financial situation. I doubt that they can really explain this, and his money-laundering was a lot more than people suspect.
Those are conspiracy theories. Those are dumb questions. This isn’t even satire
Let me retry.
Those are NOT conspiracy theories. Those are just dumb questions. This piece isn’t even good satire. I don’t know what is is.
Also, does FR have an edit button that I’m missing? I know I know, I should take advantage of the Auto-Preview. That’s what it’s there for.
Any conspiracy theory built on a "the lack of evidence for it means it's true" narrative should be laughed out of the room.
16. Why did Jesus Campos go toward automatic weapons fire while unarmed?
17. After “over 200 rounds” were “sprayed” into the hallway in response to his door approach, why did Jesus take only one hit to the leg, missing all bones and arteries?
Jesus Campos should be interrogated under hot lights.
Also, Paddock fits the profile of a Megalomaniac Psychopath Serial Killer. All his travels for the last 10 years should be compared to unsolved disappearances and murders. Every surface of every car, truck, furniture, floor that he owned should be scanned for unexpected DNA. All outdoor areas, yards etc. from properties he owned should be sniffed by cadaver dogs.
There’s no way these recent murders were his first.
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Good heavens. Who knew that those at this site are interfering with the investigation by posting here.
That's one of the problems. Nobody knows where in the timeline Paddock died. He was dead when the swat team breached the room and none of them heard the shot.
I 100% believe that he could have pulled this off all by himself. But I think it's just as likely that there's more to the story. And this was a pretty big deal and there are unanswered questions and people rightfully want answers. That seems more reasonable that blithely accepting an official narrative IMO.
For example, there's the matter of Jesus Campos. He was the security guard that was shot in the leg through the door. I want to know more about him. He never saw Paddock apparently. Did he hear the suicide shot? Where did he go after being shot? How close did he get to the door? was he right in front of the door? was he off to the side of the door? etc
#17.) I wasn’t gonna say it, but yeah. I would like to know more about his activities in the timeline.
It will be shape-shifting aliens soon. That's about all that's left.
It's a time-honored tradition. When you don't know, make up silly stories.
Until we know the truth the theories will continue.
THANK YOU!!
I want to slap (or shoot) the retards who use that line.
The ENTIRE burden of evidence is ALWAYS upon the person making the claim. 100 percent.
Why do I not believe our FBI is operating above board and telling us the truth?
Until I get that answer settled, all those answers to those questions are irrelevant. I just don’t trust our government anymore.
At this point I agree: Pulling off a massive cover-up by law enforcement would be nearly impossible, too many people would have to be in on the conspiracy.
It just seems wierd to me that the case appears to have gone cold in one week.
Yeah I don’t see a problem with having a healthy distrust of gov. I’m not going to be shamed out of it.
who has claimed that law enforcement is perpetrating a massive coverup? When law enforcement finally got around to breaching the front door, they found the shooter already dead and, with zero evidence to support their claim, they declared that he had shot himself. In my home time, a there has been one murder in the past 80 years and the killer walked because the cops were, essentially, incompetent. It happens.
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