Based on the Early Reports, the Las Vegas Shooting Is Very, Very Strange

National Review ^ | 10-2-2017 | DAVID FRENCH

[servo1969]

As virtually everyone has noted from the abundant video footage of the incident, it certainly sounds as if the shooter used either fully-automatic weapons or semi-automatic weapons modified (through, for example, a bump fire stock) to closely simulate automatic fire. Moreover, the police are reporting that he had “more than 10 rifles.” He apparently rented his corner room for days and may have even set up cameras to detect when police were approaching. That’s all strange enough, but it’s even more unusual when you consider that his own family apparently didn’t know that he maintained a stockpile of guns.

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Put all this together, and the shooting is flat-out bizarre. It’s significantly different from virtually any other mass shooting in U.S. history. If the weapons were fully automatic, then he likely would have spent immense sums of money to obtain them legally, jumping through extensive legal hoops.

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So, a person who’s “not a gun guy” has either expended untold thousands of dollars to legally purchase fully-automatic weapons, somehow found them on the black market, or purchased and substantially modified multiple semi-automatic weapons — and did so with enough competence to create a sustained rate of fire. This same person also spent substantial sums purchasing just the right hotel room to maximize casualties.

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Given the firepower and the packed mass of people, it’s easy to see how the casualty count was so high, even firing from an extreme range (by the standards of mass shootings.) This was the University of Texas tower attack on steroids, conducted out of nowhere, with meticulous planning and at great expense, from a person who doesn’t seem to fit any normal profile of a mass shooter. There is much we have yet to learn, but for now, this is one of the most chilling and mysterious events I’ve ever seen.

[Bellflower]

Is this a picture of him? In this picture he looks a lot more like the guy in the pink pussy hat. There must be lots of video of him gambling.

[Bellflower]

Magglepuss, I would like to view the video “We need to talk about Sandy Hook”. On youtube there are many with that name that come up. Is there a specific one you are referring too?

[magglepuss]

I believe they are all the same with a run time around 2hrs and 45 minutes. I know, very long. I just stared the one that says its the updated 2015 Documentary, and that looks like the original I saw. I think there are so many because you tube keeps taking them down. The original had millions of views.

I started playing it for my husband one night when he came home from work, expecting to watch about an hour, we ended up watching the whole thing.