Breaking: Active Shooter(s) In Mandalay Bay Hotel (NSFW)

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The unanswered question still is: so why did he do it?
Perhaps the answer is: because he could.

Guns and gun culture sure have changed a lot since the Founding Fathers drafted the Second Amendment, which has not changed, and I don't imagine it will.

Bump stocks out of stock in Kansas City metro area

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Darn. There went my chance.

NEWS ON THE NOTE :

Note in Las Vegas gunman's hotel room included details of bullet trajectory
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A note found in the hotel room of the man who shot into a crowd from his perch in a Las Vegas high-rise included hand-written calculations about where he needed to aim to maximize his accuracy and kill as many people as possible.

In an interview airing Sunday on "60 Minutes," three police officers who stormed Stephen Paddock's hotel room in the Mandalay Bay hotel tell correspondent Bill Whitaker new details about the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The officers were the first to see Paddock's body and the arsenal of weapons and ammunition he had stockpiled.

Officer David Newton from the Las Vegas Police Department's K-9 unit said he noticed a note on the shooter's nightstand once officers breached the room. He said the note was located near one of the windows that Paddock had smashed with a hammer to fire onto the crowd below with high-powered semi-automatic rifles outfitted to increase their rate of fire.

"I could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for the crowd," Newton said. "So he had that written down and figured out so he would know where to shoot to hit his targets from there."

Paddock's hotel suite was on the 32nd floor of the hotel, looking down on the crowd across the street. More than 20,000 people were attending the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival when Paddock opened fire. The crowd was approximately 400 yards away, well within range of the expensive custom-made rifles found in his suite.

Newton told Whitaker what it was like to enter the room amid the flashing lights of a fire alarm set off by an explosive used to blow through the door.

"Very eerie. Yeah, the dust from the explosive breach. And then you have the flashing lights," Newton said. "And that looked straight, like, out of a movie, you know?"

We have looked at everything': Still no clear motive for Las Vegas attack, officials say
http://www.latimes.com

Las Vegas police Undersheriff Kevin McMahill
The gunman who opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas did not have help from a second attacker, officials said Friday, but it remains unclear whether he made anyone else aware of his plans in advance.


Las Vegas shooter took 20 cruises, some to foreign ports
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Vegas shooter took foreign cruises
Las Vegas (CNN)In addition to his frequent forays into casinos and gun shops, Las Vegas strip killer Stephen Paddock took 20 cruises, many of them in Europe and the Middle East, investigators have learned.

WE ALREADY KNEW THIS.

Shooter May Have Had Target Practice in the Desert Two Days Before Las Vegas Massacre

LAS VEGAS—The gunman who killed 58 people here Sunday appears to have gone out to the desert to practice shooting two days before the massacre, according to a law-enforcement official familiar with the investigation.

Investigators have uncovered video footage from a home-surveillance system that shows Stephen Paddock driving alone to an area on the outskirts of Mesquite, Nev. where locals go for target practice.

The footage shows Paddock heading to the area on the Friday before the attack, the official said.

so what does knowing all this gossip achieve?

the case is the fellow went crackers suddenly and exploded in a violent suicidal venture. that's about it.

Oh brother. And Danley is still only a person of interest. Give me a break already.


Police, FBI seek public's help in finding motive behind Las Vegas massacre

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Baffled police and FBI agents, still lacking a clear motive for the Las Vegas massacre of 58 people by a lone gunman five days ago, appealed to the public on Friday to come forward with any information that might help solve the mystery.

Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said investigators have, to no avail, run down more than 1,000 leads seeking clues to what drove a 64-year-old wealthy retiree with a penchant for gambling to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The gunman, Stephen Paddock, poured a barrage of gunfire from the windows of his 32nd-floor hotel suite into a crowd of 20,000 people attending an outdoor music festival on Sunday night, then killed himself before police stormed his room.

In addition to the 58 people killed, nearly 500 were injured, some by gunfire, some trampled or otherwise hurt while running for cover.

Unlike so many other perpetrators of deadly mass shootings before him, Paddock left behind no suicide note, no manifesto, no recordings and no messages on social media pointing to his intent, according to police.

"We have looked at everything, literally, to include the suspect's personal life, any political affiliation, his social behaviors, economic situation, any potential radicalization," McMahill told reporters. "We are looking at every aspect from birth to death of this suspect and this case."

McMahill acknowledged that Islamic State had repeatedly claimed responsibility for the attack, but said investigators had uncovered "no nexus" between that Mideast-based militant group and Paddock.

In an unusual bid to cast a wider net for additional tips, the FBI and police have arranged with communications company Clear Channel to post billboards around Las Vegas urging members of the public to come forward with any information they believe might help investigators.

The billboards will bear the slogan, "If you know something, say something," and carry a toll-free number to an FBI hotline, said Aaron Rouse, special agent in charge of the Las Vegas FBI office.

"We have not stopped, we will not stop until we have the truth," Rouse said.

McMahill said investigators were satisfied that no one else was in the room with Paddock, who checked into the Mandalay Bay hotel three days before the massacre.

"We're very confident ... there was not another shooter in that room," he said.

But police have said they suspect Paddock may have had assistance at some point before the killings, based on the large number of guns, ammunition and explosives that were found in the hotel suite, his home, his car and a second home searched in Reno.

Authorities have said that 12 of the weapons recovered from Paddock's hotel suite were equipped with so-called bump-stock devices that enable semi-automatic rifles to be operated as if they were fully automatic machine-guns.

Paddock's ability to fire hundreds of rounds per minute over the course of his 10-minute shooting spree was a major factor in the high casualty count, police said.

The National Rifle Association, the influential gun lobby that has staunchly opposed moves to tighten firearms control laws after previous mass shootings, came out on Thursday in favor of placing new regulations on bump stock accessories.

Reports have emerged in recent days that Paddock may have targeted other sites for attack in Las Vegas, Chicago or Boston before Sunday's shooting, which police have said they were investigating.

Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley, 62, was questioned by the FBI on Wednesday and said in a statement she never had any inkling of Paddock's plans.

Danley, who returned late on Tuesday from a family visit to the Philippines, is regarded by investigators as a "person of interest." The Australian citizen of Filipino heritage is cooperating fully with authorities, her lawyer said.

I'd like to point an interesting bias out.

Multiple sources have said that Paddock was an average guy and there was nothing out of the ordinary that would indicate he was about to commit such an atrocity.

While there was nothing to indicate he would do such a thing, it's not true that there wasn't something out of the ordinary.

Paddock had been more or less estranged from his family, but before the shooting, sent his mother a walker and a box of cookies, and sent a text to his brother asking how their mother was.

For Paddock, this was out of the ordinary, but it goes overlooked because NTs don't see things that conform to socially appropriate behavior as out of the ordinary, even if it is a deviation from the individual's own normal behavior.

Deviation from societal norms = unacceptable.
Deviation to societal norms = acceptable.

And what is wrong with staring people down during a poker game? Isn't that a poker face?

And don't most "richies" show entitlement? That wouldn't be new.