Posted on 10/03/2017 3:31:00 AM PDT by 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.
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It's my understanding that there are 4 siblings...I think that we haven't heard from one of them.
Think people, look at the evidence. 600 people shot, that is not one shooter.
The ironic thing is that the USSC began its term yesterday. In light of what had happened, any new effort by President Trump to get another conservative unto the USSC could be a bit harder because of the Dems and libs.
These hotels and casinos always keep a few rooms for big gamblers, though. They give you a card if you are a rich gambler. You can always get a room with one of those cards, IIRC.
I bet none of them knows squat. This dude is a patsy for some enterprise.
I have 5 years of emails of my kids.
That’s simply not true. Unless it is hosting a convention, it is fairly easy to get a room at Mandalay Bay.
Also this guy didn’t show up out of the clear blue. He was a common fixture in the casinos out there. Was known as being on the low end of the high rollers. Recently he had been spending $10k+ a day on gambling. Those casinos always have rooms available for someone like that. Often free of charge.
He was also a pilot.
here’s another odd shooting from the past:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/11/us/pilot-buzzes-boston-airport-shooting-up-the-city.html
Pilot Buzzes Boston Airport, Shooting Up the City
AP
Published: May 11, 198
A man who the police said had just killed his ex-wife commandeered a small plane and terrorized the city for three hours early today, firing a semiautomatic weapon while flying within 50 feet of motorists and buildings.
Traffic controllers at Logan International Airport said the plane buzzed them repeatedly, forcing officials to close the airport for an hour and reroute several late-night flights. Controllers fled the tower twice.
Bullets struck a variety of targets, including parked cars and the Prudential tower’s 50th-floor skywalk. One pedestrian was struck by ejected casings from the spent rounds...
tick, tick, tick, BOOM!
His brother knew nothing about him. His neighbor said it was like living next to “nothing” and wished that he had at least been grumpy or something. Apparently no voter registration and no breadcrumbs online, other than real estate records. Way too clamped down, way too controlled, so the guy either had something big to hide (like being a spy or a hitman) or he was a time bomb.
A friends band had just announced they had signed to open for Jason Aldean that evening before news broke
Bump stock, slide fire the audio confirms that for me.
ISIS called it in May. That would have been about the time of his conversion according to them
Are you really sure about it?
If this guy was a Republican or supported Trump in any way we would definately know about it by now.
So obviously true.
But it does bear repeating because you know, we all know, if at all possible the government will cover up any story that a) looks bad for the anti-gun groups, b) looks bad for the democrats, c) looks bad for the muzzies.
Well, he sure as hell did not set this up on his own. I want to know where is the girl friend. Why is she reportedly out of the country just like those Saudis that got flown out immediately after 9-11?
You think maybe they are hiding a connection with the Antifa terrorist organization as a way to prevent more violence? This description of him reeks of BS. No history of mental illness, no financial problems, no religious or political interests, oh he just decided out of the blue to arm the living crap out of himself and commit mass murder. He just didn’t like country music, yeah that’s it, that’s the ticket, he just didn’t like country music so now let’s just brush that aside and focus on repealing the 2nd.
Imagine what the carnage would have been like if he filled his plane up with gas cans and went into a dive right above the crowd.
Here come the “Sandy Hook” conspiracy nuts.
So a medical examiner cracking jokes the day after the shooting is normal to you Sam?
How about the father who, whithin 24 hours is laughing on cnn cameras before doing an interview, is that normal to you?
Or the parents who smiled through the interview after using sharpies to write graffiti on their daughters coffin, normal?
How about all the parents who fake cried without a single tear, normal as well?
How about all the parents setting up “go fund me” accounts? Exactly what are we supposed to be funding? Is this normal to you?
How about the mother, who, when asked if Christmas was hard, responded by saying, “well, yes and no”.
How about going on tv hours or days after you just lost your loved one, normal?
How about accepting autopsy photos to identify your lost child, normal right?
We used to be able to call out this BS. But now, SJW like yourself want to shame everyone into believing their lies.
I have no idea what happened that day at SH, but I do know the story that was fed us is not the truth.
“There has got to be something, somewhere? He wasn’t a loner. He had a girl friend who must have been aware of developments which might lead to his mass murdering behavior.”
He’s sounding more and more like a soulless sociopath. No hate, no love no feelings no nothing. Dead.
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