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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>And nobody in the crowd could shoot back.
Longs gun vs. pistol. Apples & oranges vs. distance/etc.
We’re not talking Orlando nightclub or back-alley hold-up here. Unless anyone carrying was storming the hotel too, not a damn thing they could have done; especially not knowing the conditions of the room/floors around where they HOPED a shot would be placed.
Unless he was looking for specific people in the crowd, this would not have been necessary. The bullet drop for 308 at that range is between 60” and 70”. All he had to do was aim at the far end of the crowd and it would land solidly in the crowd. If his calculations are as complete as someone trained in sniping, then he would have to have trained with someone to learn how to do this. But if the numbers are just rough, then it still doesn’t mean much. We already know he was calculating and on a mission. He only needed rough skills to do great damage.
ping
I have wondered if the hotel could have cut the power to his room or turned on the sprinklers....
I’m not ready to assume he was really running back and forth between his room and Brian Hodge’s room where the second window was broken out.
Supposedly the door was locked between the the two rooms when SWAT got there.
We know basically nothing about what was found in Hodge’s room with the second broken window, except we can see an electric cord running under Hodge’s door to the corridor.
the under sheriff or maybe it was the sheriff who said the security guard went to the 32nd floor to check on a door alarm coming from a room several rooms down from Paddock’s room.
“killed himself with a gun before police entered the room to find his body and 47 weapons.”
They didn’t find 47 weapons.
“officers found 23 guns in the hotel room, including high-powered rifles capable of penetrating police armor.”
http://www.newsweek.com/stephen-paddock-las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-676259
No one cares about facts when reporting - ever.
The motive is not complicated. Paddock was angry because he felt under-appreciated. He could beat the casino’s for millions of dollars, yet he felt his genius went unrecognized. This was his final hurrah to prove his brilliant mind was capable of a record breaking shooting of people and no one would have a clue why he did it, or how to prevent such future mass murders.
It’s not like bump stocks are designed for accurate shooting. All he was really doing was using the rifle like a hose.
>> Unless he was looking for specific people in the crowd, this would not have been necessary. <<
Perhaps he was calculating to a specific spot where an accomplice was supposed to have the car with the tannerite parked. Maybe near the fuel storage tanks.
...and now he’ll regret it for eternity.
How many rounds of what calibers were fired?
I think he has a lot more to regret than just offing himself.
He should have done that first.
Exactly. I’m for self defense and carry laws but imagine a bunch of people shooting randomly up toward the sound of bullets coming from a hotel window in the dark. Yea that. Other people who are innocent by standers are in the hotel too. Yea that would be a disaster.
It would depend on how many in the concert crowd had rifles instead of pistols. Pistol rounds would have fallen somewhere short of the hotel and rained into the streets.
If all of the people in the concert crowd had rifles, on the other hand,...there would be 22,000 people firing rifle rounds in the general direction of the hotel and surrounding area.
We have no basis to know what the motive was.
We know only what the feds have chosen to reveal to us.
They have his internet browsing history, his phone history (he always carried two, each with a different carrier per his brother), his financial records, etc. etc.
We haven’t seen any of that. Plus rumors he left a recorded video that the feds don’t want to reveal supposedly for fear of triggering other cells.
At that elevation the drop would be minimal, much less than fired at horizontal.
Why bother? How hard is it to point somewhere in the middle of the crow and continue for 10 minutes? He didn’t need calculations, but that’s a good story to feed the sheeple. Maybe he was bored or biding his time.
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