Las Vegas Strip - Deadliest Mass Shooting in US

[falafel]

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Actually if he had a suppressor/silencer that might have helped. He may have burned his hand trying to remove it to put it on the next gun.

Nice tone deaf response. Incredible she wasn't elected.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

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Actually if he had a suppressor/silencer that might have helped. He may have burned his hand trying to remove it to put it on the next gun.

Hillary is well-informed on this issue after being under sniper fire many years back.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

http://time.com/4966239/stephen-padd...tel-room-guns/

So he did have some "bump-stock" devices on these guns. The WSJ Journal article I read earlier was either inaccurate, or this Time article doesn't mention any automatic weapons that weren't modified. Apparently these devices are legal which seems totally insane to me.

[Uncle Ted]

I love how everyone talks about this guy having "balls of steel." No, just really drunk and stupid.

Yeah, given that tall boy in the other hand I say he was drunk and stupid.

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[Eddie]

Huh?!?

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Hillary is well-informed on this issue after being under sniper fire many years back.

She's particularly well-informed on silencers. Since those snipers were using silencers and NO ONE could hear the shots - they weren't even picked up on camera!

Looks like they were probably using those older versions of silencers that Topper referred to - since no one was hit, it stands to reason that the silencers were messing with the accuracy of the shooter.

[The_Tick]

I was just pointing out that the title of the thread was factually incorrect. MSNBC has it right. They've been reporting this as the largest mass shooting "in modern history."

I'd also like to say that I am offended by the personal insults hurled in my direction (e.g., with regard to my degrees or how "smart" I think I am) or being compared with a mass shooter. This stuff should be totally out of bounds.

I show restraint with regard to personal insults.

I do my job. I work hard and I'm successful. But I do say what I genuinely think about the world and do not deserve personal insults. Some of you are incredibly rude people and I expect an apology.

Unless it has to do with the deeply held religious beliefs of 95% of the board. Then you just paint with broad strokes.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Here's an instructive video on a bump-stock in an AR 15

[Uncle Ted]

She's particularly well-informed on silencers. Since those snipers were using silencers and NO ONE could hear the shots - they weren't even picked up on camera!

Yep...

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[PaloAltoCougar]

The "worst mass shooting in U.S. history" line that appear in headlines and lead paragraphs is obvious and inevitable, but I hate it as I fear it provides an incentive to the deranged to beat the record. I remember when Charles Whitman held the record for a very long time, but with Newtown, Orlando and now this one has to be worried about the trend.

[New Mexican Disaster]

The "worst mass shooting in U.S. history" line that appear in headlines and lead paragraphs is obvious and inevitable, but I hate it as I fear it provides an incentive to the deranged to beat the record. I remember when Charles Whitman held the record for a very long time, but with Newtown, Orlando and now this one has to be worried about the trend.

I'm not expecting anything in the way of legislation to address this problem. After Sandy Hook I realized nothing was ever going to happen.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Yes, it is. You can also make a reservation to avoid having to wait. The community is stepping up and responding.

Rumor has it that some people are regular enough donors that it’s actually been too recent since their last donation to qualify at this time.

A guy from our area who was at the concert was speaking to a local radio talk show host this morning and was asked the same question. He said that Vegas has lots of gun shows and it's not unusual for guys to carry in lots of gun cases. There's apparently a big show this weekend. In fact, there are three over the next five weeks. Excellent timing for the exhibitors.

Watching on my phone in bed last night, I took this screen shot immediately after the first briefing from Metro. I missed the sergeant standing in front of the billboard, but did catch the reporter stepping into the frame right after. Seemed...interesting.




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[ByronMarchant]

I'm not expecting anything in the way of legislation to address this problem. After Sandy Hook I realized nothing was ever going to happen.

The main reason nothing is going to happen is that too many Americans love their guns. They think guns are great. And they don't care quite as much what happens to other people as long as they get to have their gun toys.

[RC Vikings]

Here's an instructive video on a bump-stock in an AR 15

I keep watching the first minute and one half and I still have no idea how to put one of those guns together.

[Eddie]

The main reason nothing is going to happen is that too many Americans love their guns. They think guns are great. And they don't care quite as much what happens to other people as long as they get to have their gun toys.

Guns are great. I love to go shooting. I'll be headed out to do some more shooting later this week.

Now - killers are not so great. I don't love them.

So - how do we balance people like me - who don't shoot people - getting to keep having fun shooting guns with getting guns away from people like the crazy guy in Vegas?

[Northwestcoug]

Guns are great. I love to go shooting. I'll be headed out to do some more shooting later this week.

Now - killers are not so great. I don't love them.

So - how do we balance people like me - who don't shoot people - getting to keep having fun shooting guns with getting guns away from people like the crazy guy in Vegas?

Unfortunately, if you really want to do something about it, the needle will have to move against decent people like you. It is as much of a cultural impasse as it is a political one. Guns have to decrease, and regulations getting one have to become stricter. It will take at least a generation of stringent gun control laws before we see improvement, IMO.