Mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay Las Vegas; 58 dead, 500+ injured.

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I was going to bed crazy late after destiny and managed to wake my girl up for a quick smoke and a bit before I went to lay down and pass out. She's always check-in her phone out so decides to see what's up before she goes back to sleep and the next thing I k ow I'm hearing automatic fire in vegas...

Shit is unreal. At the time it was 20 or so dead and 200 injured...watching that number grow all day has been chilling.

Fucked up.
 
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The top 4 all occurred within the last 10 years. It's so sickening and disheartening.
 
How? Why? This is beyond bizarre.

Apparently he was shooting at people 12 football fields away? 1000+ yards.

I practice shooting a few times a month, and have been a shooter since I was very little. Only Prone, or on a bench, can I hit a target 700 yards away. And that is with a high mag scope firing very slowly. At that distance rapid fire shots would spray everywhere, there would be people hit or dead that were not anywhere near the concert. This keeps getting stranger.

I could wrap my head around it if this guy was a seal sniper maybe. Even then its insanity.


Seen a few places state he was a regular on the strip and people knew him as a rich asshole.

Not seen any official reports but it looks like 4-5 football pitches away from the aerial photo and he's high up shooting at 22000 people. Also with this amount of weapons he's probably done a bit of practice even though his brother says he wasn't a gun guy.

Perhaps this has something to do with his father and being psychopathic. Would not surprise me to learn he's been thinking about it for a while.
 
Out of curiosity, I checked the definition of a terrorist act through google.

terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.

Again, this is why it is infuriating that we don't have a motive since this could have just been a madman just shooting people at random. If this was indeed a terrorist act, there would have been a motive or a message; something to which that hasn't been found as of yet or doesn't exist at all and it was killing for the sake of killing. If we do find that motive and if it was based on sending a message before taking his life, then it can be ruled as a terrorist act then.
 
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School shooting going on now. Pahrump Nevada? This is too much.

UPDATE: No shooting at Pahrump school

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UPDATE AT 11:25 A.M. According to the Director of Nye County Emergency Management, there was not a shooting at any of the schools in Pahrump.

The director says that a known felon brought his child to school today. As a result, all of the schools in Pahrump were put on lockdown.

Sheriff's deputies are now clearing each school.

We are still working to get more information on why parents and others thought there was a shooting.
 

Ah yes, the old, empty call to "come together."

Sure, I'll come together with people who understand we need stricter gun control and its role in reducing the chances for things like this.

The people shrugging their shoulders and saying, "Well, doesn't mean we need more gun control"? They can fuck right off.
 
How? Why? This is beyond bizarre.

Apparently he was shooting at people 12 football fields away? 1000+ yards.

I practice shooting a few times a month, and have been a shooter since I was very little. Only Prone, or on a bench, can I hit a target 700 yards away. And that is with a high mag scope firing very slowly. At that distance rapid fire shots would spray everywhere, there would be people hit or dead that were not anywhere near the concert. This keeps getting stranger.

I could wrap my head around it if this guy was a seal sniper maybe. Even then its insanity.

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He was shooting automatic weaopons into a crowd of 12,000 people from an elevated position.
 

In this context, what in the flying hell does "come together" even mean? Stand in a circle with our heads down and say, "Boy, this is devastating, it's really awful this happened", and then end it at that? That's coming together? What the fuck is being done to make sure it never happens again?
 
I'm watching the video. This is definitely a fully automatic gun being used. You can hear the sustained gun fire.

Such a horrific tradegy.
 
Even if we want to squabble over the dictionary’s definition versus Nevada’s state definition of the word “terrorism”, I think the sad fact is that if this shooter happened to be anything but white, and maybe a Muslim, the President wouldn’t have hesitated to use the word terrorism in his statements. The label of terrorist has been flung around so casually in the past 15 years that lots of people have been conditioned to read it a very certain way.
 
Kinda crazy, just heard the CEO of the company I work for, who is a hard core Trump supporter, say "I'm not a gun control guy but maybe it's time we do something about this"

I'm sure he's in the minority but it's kinda encouraging to think that maybe some minds will change on gun control.
 
In this context, what in the flying hell does "come together" even mean? Stand in a circle with our heads down and say, "Boy, this is devastating, it's really awful this happened", and then end it at that? That's coming together? What the fuck is being done to make sure it never happens again?

We will give everybody sniper rifle so if somebody does this again we can fight back.

/s
 
In this context, what in the flying hell does "come together" even mean? Stand in a circle with our heads down and say, "Boy, this is devastating, it's really awful this happened", and then end it at that? That's coming together? What the fuck is being done to make sure it never happens again?

Don't worry, people are praying. PRAYING! We got this.
 
Correct. If I wasn't carrying, even then I'd still respond to the threat. When I'm armed, at least there is a better chance than being without.

Your username is extremely fitting.

A nation of social shut-ins scared to death of their fellow man, consuming brain-dead media that reinforces and fuels their paranoia further.
Luckily you can buy something to simply project lethal force wherever you point it towards. No solutions, just further escalation.
 
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