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Las Vegas Mass Shooting - Mav - 10-02-2017
Wow! Some guy unleashed a machine gun from the 32nd floor of a hotel on the crowd at an open-air C&W concert. At least 20 dead and 100 wounded.
Given Trump hasn't come out already to say this was radical islamic terror, chances are it isn't. Apparently, the lone shooter is dead and he was apparently a local.
But how the hell does someone access a machine gun? Watch one of the clips and the rapidity and duration of the gunfire is stunning.
Despite police being in the crowd, there was no hope of the shooter being taken out from ground level. So much for this idea that the way to deal with a bad man with a gun is for good men to have guns.
This is the country that is so keen to protect the right to bear arms that the NRA wants to get rid of prohibitions on silencers and automatic weapons. Some commentators are saying the weapon used here may be a beltfed or drum machine gun. Absolute insanity!
Re: Las Vegas Mass Shooting - laj - 10-02-2017
Wonderful, I'm close to Las Vegas within the week.
Re: Las Vegas Mass Shooting - Jack Burton - 10-02-2017
It's cultural, I lived in the US for a few years, and I was the only person I knew who didn't own a gun and go out shooting anything that moved in the woods every weekend. The gun in this instance sounds like a high-powered semi-automatic, anyone who passes the identity checks can get one of these at any corner gun shop in the US
Re: Las Vegas Mass Shooting - cookie2 - 10-02-2017
Sounded like a heavy rapid fire weapon to me.
Re: Las Vegas Mass Shooting - Thryleon - 10-02-2017
(10-02-2017, 09:26 AM)laj link Wrote:Wonderful, I'm close to Las Vegas within the week.
Glass half full outlook means that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place so soon,and odds are a heightened security presence will be the outcome.
Re: Las Vegas Mass Shooting - kruddler - 10-02-2017
Walk down the strip in Vegas and you'll get people handing you all kinds of things.
Plenty of little cards with pictures of (half) naked ladies on them is the most common. I had people offering me cds of their own music as well. Lots of flyers from shops around, casinos and shows.
I had more than a couple flyers handed to me that were to go shoot guns. They take you to a range nearby and you get to choose through a wide variety from hand guns to rifles and anything you could dream of.
How does someone find a (machine?) gun in Vegas? How does someone avoid them??
Re: Las Vegas Mass Shooting - ElwoodBlues1 - 10-02-2017
Down in Texas they dont seem to have any trouble getting machine guns....replicas in the USA usually mean the real thing for these weekend nutcase warriors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N59msUnyy1g
Re: Las Vegas Mass Shooting - townsendcalling - 10-02-2017
What chance the shooter was ex military??
Re: Las Vegas Mass Shooting - cookie2 - 10-02-2017
Death toll now 50 according to last report.
Re: Las Vegas Mass Shooting - Mav - 10-02-2017
NBC has identified him as a white dude in his 60s who lived in a retirement community.