Las Vegas Shooting

iceaura said:
Gotta give them credit: Although they were Scotch Irish - Protestants all, none of this toe-tippy Hibernian curlycue - that does not cover for their employment of maize, and they honorably recognized the fact. They were honest marketers of bourbon - whiskey, not the good stuff. http://grammarist.com/usage/whiskey-whisky/
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I got a 30 yo bottle of Macallan for my last birthday. I'm good with not having maize in my booze.
 
river said:
One has to ask , what is impetus for this insanity ?
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Might well be none. There are people in the world who are crazy, evil and uncontrollable. There may be no impetus, no reason, no justification, no rationale for this shooting.

And since we are unwilling to do anything about that, it will happen again, and again, and again.
 
billvon said:
Might well be none. There are people in the world who are crazy, evil and uncontrollable. There may be no impetus, no reason, no justification, no rationale for this shooting.

And since we are unwilling to do anything about that, it will happen again, and again, and again.
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Yeah well ...why though ?
 
We have a chink in the armor - a way to get some stuff done: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-republican-sees-reason-bump-stocks-open-ban/story?id=50287541
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said Congress should examine the Obama administration's approval of the accessory.

“We need to determine what happened in 2010 when the Obama administration approved those -- the why, the what, what was the process they were going through to do the approval," Lankford said. "There’s a lot more to be able to be discovered.”
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It's been nine months - given the established memory span of the average fruit fly Republican voter, that should be enough time to allow the obvious bad stuff to be blamed on Obama's failure to properly control guns, and the obvious fixes installed as the initiatives of patriotic conservative responsible gun owing Republican legislators protecting our heroic First Responders.

And with the media - like ABC there - safely in pocket and obviously willing to broadcast whatever amnesiac tongue-bathing the nearest Republican requires, that could happen reasonably soon.
 
billvon said:
Because the NRA gets its political power from completely unrestricted sales of guns
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But there is a way around that via media "power", as ABC demonstrates:
Rep. Bill Flores, a popular Texas conservative serving in his fourth term in the House, is the first congressional Republican to endorse the idea of a ban on bump stocks.
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Flores previously served as chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus of conservatives in Congress, and is widely respected by the House Republican Conference for his principled conservatism.
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“While I am generally skeptical of banning firearms or firearm accessories outright, I am certainly open to Congress holding hearings to learn more about bump stocks and related matters," Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who co-authored the last comprehensive effort on gun control, wrote in a statement.
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Sure it's embarrassing, a travesty of journalism and a nauseating display of toadying and media self-abasement, but that ship sailed decades ago. So what the hell - better than allowing Orwellian "interpretation" of the Bill of Rights.
 
Ya know... when I see videos like this...


I have to wonder... if a person has to be able to fire several hundred rounds per minute down range to feel like a man... do they really have any right to access a weapon like that in the first place?

Seriously, that advert is cringe-worthy... and seeing how it allows the rifle to fire nearly equivalent to full auto... yeah, no wonder this guy was able to mow people down so easily.
 
Running the blogs, I ran into a speculation about the shooter that makes some sense and has some relevant implications: that he was a money launderer for an organized crime syndicate.

This vague business of being a retired accountant of some unspecified kind doesn't really add up, on its own.

So waiting for word, then, on: 1) where his money was coming from 2) the autopsy.
 
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iceaura said:
Running the blogs, I ran into a speculation about the shooter that makes some sense and has some relevant implications: that he was a money launderer for an organized crime syndicate.

This vague business of being a retired accountant of some unspecified kind doesn't really add up, on its own.

So waiting for word, then, on: 1) where his money was coming from 2) the autopsy.
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I think you are close to the mark.
The shooters possible clandestine relationship with his father (FBI top 10 Most wanted) and his associates needs a good look at as well.
Rumor has it that he may have had an accomplice up there in the rooms...
I get the distinct impression ( gut ) that he may have been used as a fall guy for someone else.

There have been a number of really weird lethal situations over the last year or so that have all been more or less un-explainable (out of character) . May be this is only going to be another one...
The fact that Trump is Pro NRA could also be a factor, in that, what better demonstration of Trumps foolishness could you make especially if you were suicidal.

It could have been a political statement: "See what happens when you don't have solid gun regulations!"
 
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Also he may have been a deliberate distraction so that a major heist or whatever could be carried out elsewhere on the strip.
 
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