Mass Shooting in Las Vegas at Country Music Festival

[Brian in SLC]

Just an observation. I'm staying unaffiliated in this one. At this point I just think it's interesting how the different media outlets choose to report.

I think if you look "above the fold" and the other highlights, at least I can see that they're pretty similar at least on the front page.

Here's the highlights from breitbart:

CBS exec not sympathetic to victims...

Celebrities rush to call for gun control...

"Durn tootin', great shootin'" Richard Dawkins mocks...

[rockgremlin]

Breitbart is the worst, most unobjective news source in existence.

[twotimer]

About 10 years ago I worked at a 17,000sf mansion/ranch that was under construction up by Steamboat Springs. The guy who owned it was a wealthy oral surgeon here in Denver...he's also a big game hunter. He travels to Africa and other places two times a year. He has a huge "game room" of very large animals. He shot a giraffe and a hippo to relieve boredom while he was "waiting" to bag a cheetah...his words. He has two very exotic looking monkeys in the bath room with giant, blue balls that he calls "conversation pieces". I don't have anything against hunters, but this dude had a gnarly vibe about it.

Anyway, while I was working up there I found a bunch of these horrible, smut dvd's that he had in the bunkhouse that I moved into. Things like "Death at your Feet", where the thrill is to get the animal to charge you and it'll die as you stand your ground after shooting it. They were made in Africa by some dude named Mark, who obviously bribed someone over there to be able to make this crap. There was one that said "Watch us slaughter 30 water buffalo in 15 seconds".

I never really liked the guy, but his money was good. I especially disliked him after finding his death porn.

There're some sick, twisted souls out there, folks.

[nelsonccc]

Breitbart is the worst, most unobjective news source in existence.

Buzzfeed is way over to the left then they show. Yahoo, Google and CNN are also skewed farther to the liberal side than they show (IMHO). Also I got almost all my news from Allsides.com and Drudge and it's fascinating to see the difference in a topic from the left vs the right. I will admit to occasionally tapping into Breitbart and The Blaze. Used to listen to NPR everyday for hours while working and it got so bad with the Trump bashing during the election that I've not listened since.

[nelsonccc]

[QUOTE=rockgremlin;589344]Breitbart is the worst, most unobjective news source in existence.

That's why I really like Allsides.com. It's one of the few site where you can sort by topic and read both sides and hopefully get a gist of what the f*ck really happened.

[Scott P]

Death toll up to at least 59 deaths with at least 500 injured.

[BruteForce]

I was up when this story broke real time and had the news on. While I wasn't watching, I could hear the gun shots and I woke the wife and said something to the effect of: Do you hear that? Multiple gun shots and one of them is a fully automatic and likely belt fed machine gun.

I'm not a tin-foil hat wearing guy, but something isn't quite adding up on this story; 16 guns, tons of ammo, but the guy shot himself the moment cops made entry?? If there was indeed a fully automatic or even fully auto belt-fed machine gun, there'd be no need for the extra hardware unless the guy was planning on shooting out until the end.

In any case, super tragic and tragic that the press and agenda-pushers have already politicized this before corpses have left the morgue.

[accadacca]

Horrible tragedy.

[BruteForce]

Updated: Now 23 firearms at the hotel room! Really? That's a ton of luggage bags to haul up and to what end? I heard at least two distinct long guns and one was fully auto.

[Brian in SLC]

Yeah, word has the smoke alarm went off due to all the "gunsmoke" and that helped the cops find his room...

[Iceaxe]

Boom.... and the bitch is gone....

CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy because country music fans 'often are Republican'.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...publicans.html

[2065toyota]

So how does the FBI can rule out the guy has no relationship with ISIS in under 12 hours, but they are still looking at Trump after 9 months to see if he is related to Russia

[Iceaxe]

:-)

[rockgremlin]

^^^ Looks like Nicholas Cage.

[Sombeech]

:-)

This guy jumped right back down on his belly as soon as he heard the shots starting up again.

Not to mention, if the shooter saw him and wanted to take him out, spraying bullets in his direction and tagging those around him.

[rockgremlin]

I think it was erroneously reported that there was a "sniper" perched above the crowd. A fully automatic assault rifle is not a sniper rifle -- not by a damn sight (pun intended).

But then again, this is the same media who thinks every gun is either a glock or an AR-15....





...and it's also the same media that guaranteed a Hillary Clinton victory.

[uintafly]

Speaking of nut jobs, Pat Robertson has weighed in. http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10...egas-shooting/

This is actually pretty tame for him. Is his "It's the gays fault!" shtick too played out now?

[middlefork]

Seems like pretty long shot streams for AR /SK type weapons. My guess is more than 30 round bursts. Do they make drum magazines for them?
Seems like the first few shots were to verify range and then fire for effect.

[rockgremlin]

Seems like pretty long shot streams for AR /SK type weapons. My guess is more than 30 round bursts. Do they make drum magazines for them?
Seems like the first few shots were to verify range and then fire for effect.

That's what I was thinking.

Seems a pretty impersonal way to kill. Crouched in a darkened room full of gunsmoke, spraying bullets in the general direction of the fleeing masses. Muffled shrieks and screams for help will let you know if you're within range. Keep the trigger finger busy until sounds at the door indicate they're onto you...then turn the muzzle around and snuggle it up to your temple...boom, done.


It must've been crazy loud. If I can hear my neighbor's TV blaring in the room next door, there's a really good chance the sound of assault rifles and broken windows resonated down at least 2-3 rooms in all directions. Wonder what they were thinking? Call 911? Call the front desk? Call next of kin?

[Sombeech]

This is actually pretty tame for him. Is his "It's the gays fault!" shtick too played out now?

Did he really say that? Who is this guy anyways