The anniversary of the weirdest, most outlier mass shooting in US history. I don't have time for a comprehensive thread, but a few thoughts on this shooting and the gun control wars.
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1443949085350838286
The Vegas shooter (I won't tweet his name because screw that guy) was rich, & could've afforded the $10K+ for a legit fully automatic weapon. He also could've passed the NFA background check. He also could've just modified his AR-15 for full-auto.
Yet he used a bump stock?!
Yet he used a bump stock?!
A bump stock is & was a YouTube gimmick. It's just a way to vaguely simulate full-auto fire, but it's inaccurate & is really only good for mag dumps. So why did he do this? It certainly wasn't for lethality or max body count. Was it for theater?
Speaking of increasing the body count & him being rich, he was shooting AR-15's at night towards the outer end of their effective range, ~400 yards from his suite to the concert goers. He could've afforded a .50-caliber rifle, tho, which would've yielded a far higher body count.
He cycled through about a dozen guns, firing about 100 rounds out of each. He didn't do this for barrel heating reasons -- that's silly. But really nobody knows why he cycled through all those guns. It's a mystery.
Dude had far more guns than he could possibly have shot. Was he waiting on others? What was the point of that arsenal?
Ultimately, these questions & others are why Vegas is not worth trying to use in any kind of gun control debate, pro or con.
Background checks: he passed them, & could've passed even the more stringent one for the NFA, because he had no record or criminal history.
Background checks: he passed them, & could've passed even the more stringent one for the NFA, because he had no record or criminal history.
Ammo taxes & fees: He had enough money to pay whatever fee.
Waiting periods: This was planned well in advance.
Limits on gun purchases: He brought way more than he used, & used way more than he needed.
None of it makes any sense or supports any argument you want to make w/ it.
Waiting periods: This was planned well in advance.
Limits on gun purchases: He brought way more than he used, & used way more than he needed.
None of it makes any sense or supports any argument you want to make w/ it.
On a final, extremely weird note: he fired at & hit a pair of fuel tanks behind the concertgoers, tanks that service planes for a classified airline known as JANET. Flying JANET is how you get to Area 51 & other top-secret government facilities. radaronline.com/exclusives/201…
There are so many more weird wrinkles to this case. I've only scratched the surface. Tons more stuff involving his girlfriend, his travel history, past employment, amount of time he was in the suite before the authorities busted in, the route he took in loading up the room, etc.
It's almost Epstein-level weird. We also still don't know much more than we did the week after this whole thing went down. It just got memory-holed. No big revelations have come out about this supremely bizarre & deadly event. I dunno.
The shooter had an hour and 15 mins of alone time between when he opened fire on the crowd & when the cops busted into his room & found him dead. One hour & 15 mins. Amazing.
Also amazing: he was firing for only 10 of those mins. Once again, his goal clearly was not body count.
Also amazing: he was firing for only 10 of those mins. Once again, his goal clearly was not body count.
There is no answer to the headline's question anywhere in this article. Only a catalog of changes to the official timeline & basic order of events, changes that just kept coming in the weeks after the shooting. Why all the TL changes? Another mystery. bbc.com/news/world-us-…
I had forgotten about this mystery woman.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RyanMcKinnell/status/914755192444272640
I had forgotten all the weirdness around Jesus Campos, the guard whom the shooter allegedly shot in the leg. He disappeared after the shooting, bailing on a bunch of TV appearances, then showed up again & went on the Ellen show. latimes.com/nation/la-na-j…
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