"A young woman told a local NBC affiliate that another young woman told a group of people in the concert they were going to “die tonight” before supposedly being escorted from the conference roughly 45 minutes before the shooting happened."
No gun laws would have stopped this as he obviously had illegal automatic weapons. Curious to see how the media spins it. I hate when they make political statements out of dead people. They will blame someone or something.
No gun laws would have stopped this as he obviously had illegal automatic weapons. Curious to see how the media spins it. I hate when they make political statements out of dead people. They will blame someone or something. It's possible he had them legally, either by license or more likely, he could have fitted the gun(s) with bump fire stock(s), which are completely legal. These are inexpensive stocks that float, using recoil to allow for very rapid semi-automatic fire, nearly as rapid as fully automatic rifles fire. If you listen to the video footage, the rate of fire seems to vary quite a bit. This would be consistent with a semi-automatic rifle being fired with a bump fire stock. But who knows, maybe he illegally modified the rifles or bought fully automatic weapons illegally. Really doesn't matter now, the fucker killed and maimed a lot of people. Apparently the sick fuck had at least ten rifles in his room, and he killed himself before before being shot or apprehended. Total coward. No doubt this was an act of terrorism. There is no other way to accurately describe it. Only question is whether it was domestic or foreign in nature. @Swaye, excellent poast on both the gun control and abortion issues. Spot on, reasonableness in politics is gone.
No gun laws would have stopped this as he obviously had illegal automatic weapons. Curious to see how the media spins it. I hate when they make political statements out of dead people. They will blame someone or something. It's possible he had them legally, either by license or more likely, he could have fitted the gun(s) with bump fire stock(s), which are completely legal. These are inexpensive stocks that float, using recoil to allow for very rapid semi-automatic fire, nearly as rapid as fully automatic rifles fire. If you listen to the video footage, the rate of fire seems to vary quite a bit. This would be consistent with a semi-automatic rifle being fired with a bump fire stock. But who knows, maybe he illegally modified the rifles or bought fully automatic weapons illegally. Really doesn't matter now, the fucker killed and maimed a lot of people. Apparently the sick fuck had at least ten rifles in his room, and he killed himself before before being shot or apprehended. Total coward. No doubt this was an act of terrorism. There is no other way to accurately describe it. Only question is whether it was domestic or foreign in nature. @Swaye, excellent poast on both the gun control and abortion issues. Spot on, reasonableness in politics is gone. By all chindications, it's domestic. The shooter was a 64 year old white guy from Mesquite, NV.
There are 300 million guns in house holds in the U.S.I am not sure what more regulations is going to do to solve mass shootings.Unfortunately, they will continue.I just hope we don't find out Race or Damone is Mr. Paddock. Two Angry old white men.
Blue moons are getting pretty common these days Maybe, but you can't deny most terrorism ends up being Islamic in nature.
Blue moons are getting pretty common these days
The scariest thing to me is that I think no matter what we do legally/politically, we probably can't prevent some psycho from getting his hands on an AR and shooting up a crowd like this. People fucking suck.
No gun laws would have stopped this as he obviously had illegal automatic weapons. Curious to see how the media spins it. I hate when they make political statements out of dead people. They will blame someone or something. It's possible he had them legally, either by license or more likely, he could have fitted the gun(s) with bump fire stock(s), which are completely legal. These are inexpensive stocks that float, using recoil to allow for very rapid semi-automatic fire, nearly as rapid as fully automatic rifles fire. If you listen to the video footage, the rate of fire seems to vary quite a bit. This would be consistent with a semi-automatic rifle being fired with a bump fire stock. But who knows, maybe he illegally modified the rifles or bought fully automatic weapons illegally. Really doesn't matter now, the fucker killed and maimed a lot of people. Apparently the sick fuck had at least ten rifles in his room, and he killed himself before before being shot or apprehended. Total coward. No doubt this was an act of terrorism. There is no other way to accurately describe it. Only question is whether it was domestic or foreign in nature. @Swaye, excellent poast on both the gun control and abortion issues. Spot on, reasonableness in politics is gone. By all chindications, it's domestic. The shooter was a 64 year old white guy from Mesquite, NV. Agree, it's not likely he was a last minute convert to the religion of peace making a pact with the ISIS AIDS. Card carrying AntiFa member seems a strong runner up, given the crowd he chose to take aim at. Or he could be another Bernie supporter shooting at "Republicans" on the field. Most likely he was just straight up whack job, which in this case is redundant abundance.
Goddamn. 400+ yards. If he was using an AR, I'm surprised the 5.56 rounds still had enough juice to kill at that range.
What a difference easy access to firearms makes:Terrorist piece of shit uses a knife outside main station in Marseille - kills two girls and is shot dead by cops.And then there's Vegas. Damn right I'm politicizing this. After fucking Newtown I believe the onus is on people who advocate for the protection of their 2d Amendment rights to come up with a system that enables us to have firearms without tens and hundreds of innocents getting blasted every few months.We regulate other dangerous instrumentalities - alcohol, tobacco, cars to minimize the danger they pose to society at large. So, gun rights advocates - how do we make them reasonably safe?
There are 300 million guns in house holds in the U.S.I am not sure what more regulations is going to do to solve mass shootings.Unfortunately, they will continue.I just hope we don't find out Race or Damone is Mr. Paddock. Two Angry old white men. The silence of @MikeDamone speaks volumes.
Goddamn. 400+ yards. If he was using an AR, I'm surprised the 5.56 rounds still had enough juice to kill at that range. Going off memory, the effective range of the 55-grain FMJ 5.56mm round is about 500 meters. Muzzle velocity of about 3000fps, and small cross-section means that air drag doesn't slow it down too quickly. Obviously hard to hit a single target at 500 meters without a serious scope, but easy to hit something, anything, when firing indiscriminately into a crowd.
