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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

Great post. Stop the insanity.


41 posted on 10/05/2017 3:50:29 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I thought the ‘cable’ looked more like a rose stem laying on the top of the cart. But can’t say for sure.


42 posted on 10/05/2017 3:50:34 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: McGruff

Joseph McCarthy was deemed a conspiracy nut who saw a communist in every department of US government.

After the fall of the USSR, KGB records proved him right.

I suppose according to you, he should have been institutionalized.


43 posted on 10/05/2017 3:50:44 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: TigerClaws

I’m still convinced Timothy McVeigh had help, too, personally. He got dead real quick-like, but not at the actual scene. It was some sort of record as far as applying the death penalty in the modern era.


44 posted on 10/05/2017 3:51:49 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: humblegunner

LOL, you are on a roll.


45 posted on 10/05/2017 3:52:17 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: TigerClaws

He had help, but only one shooter.


46 posted on 10/05/2017 3:53:19 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: TigerClaws

FBI can’t find their butthole, even by hiring a Proctologist with a flashlight.


47 posted on 10/05/2017 3:54:14 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: Meet the New Boss

Which door was ajar ? Left or right ? Main room or second room ?


48 posted on 10/05/2017 3:54:52 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

dude was a nut hopped up on drugs.

mystery solved.


49 posted on 10/05/2017 3:55:50 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Kaslin
NOPE.

Not planning to stop.

Before this ever happened, I mentioned to some in my social network that we were about due for another major false flag.

This one has LOTS of fingerprints of "false flag" all over it--even giving many of your points their due.

One of the more sobering ones, to me, is the recording of the woman testifying about being herded into some tent, then on the ground with a policeman covering her; and before or after, I forget which; she was standing beside another woman. The Mandalay was on her right shoulder West. She was facing South. And the woman beside her, also facing south was shot straight on in the stomach from the South.

I doubt the full truth will out about this situation for a long time to come.

One of the more telling aspects is the speed with which the oligarchy's lobotomized liberal cheer-leading section ramped up the shrill GUN CONTROL rants.

Your #13 is hollow, empty, almost silly. The oral narrative recorded of the one(s) asserting the story of that woman was quite congruent--in tones, word choices, cadence etc. I do not believe the source was lying in the least.

50 posted on 10/05/2017 3:56:02 PM PDT by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: justa-hairyape

Important questions!


51 posted on 10/05/2017 3:56:36 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: cherry

Yep we need to demand that the gov’t prove the negative.

I’m NOT kidding.


52 posted on 10/05/2017 3:57:22 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: Hot Tabasco
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53 posted on 10/05/2017 3:57:27 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Kaslin

I agree with this article. Even here on FR there has been a dizzying # of rumors and conspiracy theories.


54 posted on 10/05/2017 3:57:31 PM PDT by willk (everyone)
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To: Rennes Templar
Look at that video clip starting around the 2:55 mark:

1. There is no synchronization between the flashing light and the sound of gunfire at all.

2. If you look at the window layout from the exterior of the hotel, that flashing light seems to be coming from a solid part of the exterior between windows.

55 posted on 10/05/2017 3:58:18 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: cherry
THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY THAT SHOULD BE AUTOMATICALLY DISMISSED....

this is 2017..we had a commie muzzie homo loving prez for 8 yrs...we have gays kissing goodbye on Navy ships...we have football players insulting the flag....

we have a media that coordinates with rats on what to report and how to do it......

this is not the old America....

these days ANYTHING is possible...

Well put.

56 posted on 10/05/2017 3:59:12 PM PDT by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Re TM.
1. Iraqi national seen in the truck
2. ATF knew about the plot and helped it along.
3. Clinton blamed Rush and got re-elected.


57 posted on 10/05/2017 3:59:19 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: gaijin

Woah. Great find.


58 posted on 10/05/2017 3:59:26 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: TigerClaws

“Radar reporting the airplane fuel tank was for a CIA air base.”

Those tanks are near the Janet terminal but I don’t think they are dedicated to Janet.


59 posted on 10/05/2017 4:01:27 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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