Posted on 10/07/2017 4:36:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Police found a note in the hotel room of Stephen Paddock, the gunman behind the mass shooting in Las Vegas, that had hand-written calculations about where he needed to aim to kill as many people as possible.
In an interview that will be aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," Officer Dave Newton from the Las Vegas Police Department's K-9 unit said he noticed a note on the shooter's bedside table after officers entered the room. The note was next to one of the windows that Paddock smashed with a hammer to clear an opening to fire into the crowd from his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
"I could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for for the crowd," Newton said. "So he had had that written down and figured out so he would know where to shoot to hit his targets from there."
Using semi-automatic rifles that he modified with a "bump stop" to increase their rate of fire, Paddock on Oct. 1 killed 58 people and injured nearly 500 others. Paddock, 64, killed himself with a gun before police entered the room to find his body and 47 weapons.
More than 20,000 people were attending the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival when Paddock began shooting into the crowd, which was about 400 yards away.
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what was his deductibles?...if he states he “earned” 5 million,he probably also claimed a ton of money as losses to decrease his taxes..
My reaction is to the explanation of Paddock’s motives. They don’t correspond to his alleged activities, particularly with respect to the shooting of the unarmed security guard.
We are up to 47 weapons now. This just keeps growing!
That's right. Thus far there is no evidence to suggest he wasn't the lone shooter.
Very interesting, and much better than Hillary’s ‘under fire’ account!
No.
I like the synchronized compilation of videos.
I just remember watching a video that had 3 or 4 individual shots followed by a burst of higher frequency (223 vs 308?) sounding shots.
I’ll have to look around as time permits.
” Fish in a barrel that shoot back are not nearly the fun”
I don’t see a practical way to carry something with a 600 yard, upslope range to a concert.
I understand what you are saying, but in this one case I don’t see how that would work.
iread a story that said people broke into police cars to try to get the shotgun unlocked- good intent, but a shotty won’t reach a target 600 yards away uphill.
The monster probably planned that out too.
I would hope people that would choose to carry would be familiar enough with firearms to know better than to do that. Pistols were not going to do anything helpful. I might have felt better if I had been there if I was armed. Only because without knowing where the shooter or shooters were you might think you would encounter one trying to get away.
I don’t think anyone at the concert could have done anything if they had been armed, even with a rifle- unless they were a trained sniper already in a good position. The only ones that might have been able to do something if armed might have been people inside the hotel, near his room, if they had been able to get inside- likely they would have been shot just like the security guard but who really knows?
say what? bringing in rifles to a concert? I see about zero chance of that happening.
We don’t really know his motives. Connection to ISIS seems to be the top motive at present. He obviously did not just snap. This man could video poker for 8 hours. As fast as humanly possible. No wild card poker. Super fast. He had determination as a strong characteristic.
He was shot through mouth and chest. Had to be sniped, if swat did not shoot him.
Really a strange case. He was out for maximum damage, supposedly calculating distance / elevation. Yet the security guard shows up and from 25 feet he kneecaps him though the wall. Bad shot or he didn’t want to kill him? Haven’t been watching tv much the last few days but I can’t recall any information about people seeing this guy showing up at a shooting range doing a little target practice.
Let’s back into this...
He was aiming at a crowd of 22,000 that is, roughly. 400 yards away and 320 feet below.
Let’s assume 4 square feet per person in the venue, that’s an 88,000 square foot target at 400 yards and below you.
I’m not going to do the math here, but I’m going to invoke the ‘inverse square rule”. (I’m an engineer.). Basically, for half the distance you quarter the target.
A reasonable equivalent is hitting a 5,500 square foot target at 100 yards. Like hitting a large home at 100 yards.
With a smooth bore shotgun, iron sights, and cheap Winchester silver box slugs I can manage a 5 inch group at 100 yards. I bet I could hit a 4x8 piece of plywood (48 square feet) almost as fast as I could work the action.
His target was 5,500 square feet at 100 yards.
=> this was no feat of marksmanship.
The bigger question would be whether the attack date is significant in Islam. Many are.
Ashura for the year 2017 is celebrated/ observed on Sunday, October 1.
Ashura falls on the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram on the Islamic lunar calendar. For Shia Muslims the day commemorates the death of Husayn ibn Ali and for Sunni Muslims the day relates to when Moses and his followers fled Egypt and where saved by God separating the Red Sea.
The cameras, where they were and how the doors are perpendicular to the hallway, that the hallway is about 250 feet long are all facts. We know from the pictures of the doors that he shot through them. The only thing I don’t know and stated as such was how far down the hall the guard was when the spraying started and that it was possible he hit his own cameras because they were right there.
So explain to me where I tried to advance a narrative.
And, I do get that the target is plainer and angled away and therefore smaller...but not much!
The media has not mentioned this and sadly, people on FR have apparently not thought of it. Almost no one could shoot back, even if they had arms. The chances of hitting some of the other hotel rooms would have been very high, endangering the occupants, who were innocent. I haven't heard anyone talk about that. Only sharpshooters with the right equipment could have engaged him.
I didn’t say that you were trying to advance a narrative.
I still don’t understand why a homicidal madman would not have exerted maximum effort to kill the security guard.
Shooting someone once indicates the exercise of restraint.
That doesn’t fit the narrative that has been offered to the public by authorities.
Might have been a nice hunting rifle in the trunk of a passing car or nearby parked car. What do you think was going through the mind of at least half of those country music lovers. Get to my car. Get my gun.
Yup. Thank God there was.
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