News: October 2017 Archives
Zero Hedge is conspiracy-minded, but today they've posted several videos taken during the Las Vegas shooting that clearly show shots fired from the hotel far below the 32nd floor.
#2 Were there additional shooters? A taxi driver reportedly captured video of an automatic weapon being fired out of a lower level window. A video from another angle and brief footage captured by Dan Bilzerian also seem to confirm that automatic gunfire was coming from a floor much lower than the 32nd floor room that Stephen Paddock was located on. And if you weren't convinced by the first three videos, this fourth video should definitely do it.
I pointed out on Monday that the shooting was weird, especially noting that I didn't believe a single shooter with semi-automatic rifles could wound so many people so quickly. Jon Rappoport agrees.
"...a potential MAXIMUM of only 360 rounds could be fired at full auto burst with NO magazine changes in the approximate four minutes or 240 seconds of the shooting!""So, Paddock didn't fire 360 rounds in 240 seconds because he had to stop and change magazines...probably 30 round mags. That would be THIRTEEN magazine changes in the 240 seconds. And it is reported he fired from both broken out windows in the room/s."
"Survivors state there were shooting pauses and that is when they would run."
"Let's say Paddock managed to get off an amazing 300 rounds in 4 minutes (or 240 seconds) and hit someone with EVERY ROUND."
"Remember, there were 573 killed and wounded according to late statistics."
"WHO, then, fired off the other full-auto 273 rounds also without missing a single shot ?!"
I don't think there's a conspiracy, and I'm sure we'll learn a lot more details in due course.
President Trump's prayer for Las Vegas pretty much says it all.
'We pray for the day that evil is banished and the innocent are safe from hatred and fear,' Trump said. 'May God bless the souls of the lives that our lost, may God give us the grace of healing and may God provide the healing family with the strength to carry on.'
One bit from the report caught my eye:
Police were able to pinpoint Paddock relatively quickly since the gunfire he emitted triggered the smoke alarms in the hotel.They used explosives to blow the door off his room, but by then it was too late - Paddock had shot himself dead. ...
Two on-duty Las Vegas police officers who engaged the shooter have been hospitalized.
What does it mean that these brave officers "engaged" the shooter without entering his room? If they were at the concert, they were 1,700 feet away from the shooter. I can't imagine that they were shooting up into the hotel.
I don't understand how anyone could kill this many people from such a distance without military weapons.
Update:
David French thinks the shooting is strange too:
So, a person who's "not a gun guy" has either expended untold thousands of dollars to legally purchase fully-automatic weapons, somehow found them on the black market, or purchased and substantially modified multiple semi-automatic weapons -- and did so with enough competence to create a sustained rate of fire. This same person also spent substantial sums purchasing just the right hotel room to maximize casualties. I cannot think of a single other mass shooter who went to this level of expense and planning in the entire history of the United States.
