Deadliest mass shooting in US history in Las Vegas - More than 50 dead

dabgs wrote:

Snowmobot wrote:

What? It was a fully automatic weapon that was illegal to own. What will restricting ownership of handguns have done to prevent this?

Not illegal to own in Nevada. Read up.

Not illegal to own in many states but I would be shocked to learn that this guy spent thousands of dollars on a legal automatic weapon so he could shoot 50 people when he could secure one illegally for much cheaper. I don't know if there has ever been a major crime committed with a machine gun legally owned since registration of them started in 1986.

So many DDipshhits Here wrote:

Putting faith in the pathetic democrats? They can't do either because of the freak show democratic tent focus on SJW bulllssshiiit and their utter inability to organize behind a couple of attainable core principles.

It's about priorities, that stuff's important, along with kneeling for the anthem and tearing down statues, oh yeah, and black lives matter, even if most of them are killed/wounded by others of their affiliation.

Guns have no place in modern society among citizenship.

Ban guns.

Sir Bastion Newbold wrote:

The rest of the world thinks America is nuts. NO ONE outside the USA can even begin to get their head around your crazy gun laws.

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RIP to all those who lost their lives.

Very true. Brits, Asians, Aussie's, can't understand why everyone is armed and they're are 11,000+ gun homicides here every year along with a mass shooting every few months, which keep getting more deadly. Can you blame them?

But Congress thinks we don't a gun problem. That's where the knee should be taken during the Anthem.

47yroldrunna wrote:

Very true. Brits, Asians, Aussie's, can't understand why everyone is armed and

According to scientists and doctors, Brits and Aussies are Asians too.

asdfasda wrote:

63% of mass shooters are white males.

Mass shootings are a male thing. White males make up 62.06% of the male population in the United States. Congratulations, your an idiot.

It is amazing to me that we can ban cigarette smoking in public places, yet banning guns is impossible despite all these killings. And it isn't just Republicans who are bought and paid for by the NRA, so stop with the finger pointing. We live in a screwed up society where priorities are upside down and hurt feelings are more important that mass murder. No changes will happen until this country's citizens decide enough is enough. Congress can't pass any decent bill so don't expect them to pass a common sense gun bill, especially when most are intimidated by the NRA, or bought outright.

I would suggest lawyers get together and figure out how they can sue and win a case against the manufacturers of these "weapons of mass destruction", because that is what these automatics are. Sue the companies until some judges end up agreeing or some jury does a slam dunk. It finally got done with cigarettes and it can be done with guns.

Tried to use you're but my phone put your. So I'm also an idiot.

Good times are killing me wrote:

asdfasda wrote:

63% of mass shooters are white males.

Mass shootings are a male thing. White males make up 62.06% of the male population in the United States. Congratulations, your an idiot.

I agree. Good point. They should be sued. Fu%ck guns and those who sell them.

No more guns wrote:

Guns have no place in modern society among citizenship.

Ban guns.

+1 👍

Theoretically yes, but either inflation or the $ will end up in Apple stock. Heck going by the past, this money will end up in the Mexican cartels to buy more guns,

I don't understand why Las Vegas SWAT Officers didn't return fire from ground level and put down Paddock. Every US Marine and Special Forces member can hit a person at that distance using her/his own personally calibrated assault rifle w/o a scope or optics mounted.

They found explosives, 20 guns and thousands of rounds of ammo at his home. Clearly he had been planning something. Just crazy how there were no signs or red flags leading up to this (no prior criminal history, hotel staff had been in his room without noticing anything, etc). So sad that you can't even go to any concerts or events these days without the fear of getting shot or run over by someone driving a car/truck. I wonder if this will change where events like these are held. This concert outside in the open surrounded by hotels..something you wouldn't normally even think about, but now have to consider.

I love guns.

No more guns wrote:

Guns have no place in modern society among citizenship.

Ban guns.

I'm a crazy urban liberal and I actually don't agree with this.

Individuals are choosing to kill people like this terrible event. Taking their guns away doesn't change the terrible choices they make.

Instead of the NRA taking some responsibility given the risks of gun possession, they make the issue worse with their gun-owning religion, relentless pursuit of weapons deregulation and shifting liability to victims of gun violence.

The far right slashing away at the "social safety net" and violence-prone dogma pushed by groups like the NRA only accelerates the issues that make people choose to kill people in such a horrible manner.

A gun ban doesn't de-escalate the conditions that promote this kind of violence. It would slow the violence briefly. But, it doesn't deal with the social issues that lead to these horrible events at all.

NRA Shooting Club President wrote:

I don't understand why Las Vegas SWAT Officers didn't return fire from ground level and put down Paddock. Every US Marine and Special Forces member can hit a person at that distance using her/his own personally calibrated assault rifle w/o a scope or optics mounted.

Perhaps what you don't understand is that Las Vegas SWAT Officers weren't there on the spot when the shooting happened. And even if they were there with their "own personally calibrated assault rifle w/o a scope or optics mounted" do you really think that within the amount of time the lunatic Paddock took to fire all his magazines that they would have been able to identify in the dark the correct balcony he was on.

Conclusion: you're an idiot.

Good post.👍 I'm sure Congress will do a song & dance about how gun control won't solve the problem while more Americans continued to get slaughtered by evil firearm owners. Lawsuits might be the only hope in changing the paradigm of this situation. Sue the gun manfacturing, sue the hotel, sue the City of Las Vegas, etc. Maybe enough lawsuits won in court might put enough pressure on this country to ban firearms and end these senseless mass killings!

These innocent people, enjoying a concert & doing nothing wrong, were slaughtered helplessly by one evil person legally in possession of many firearms! The reports are now saying the assh&*# had many more firearms and thousands of rounds of ammo at his residence!

People need to wake-up with this nonsense of gun ownership in this country!

Time for a change!

Conclusion. wrote:Paddock took to fire all his magazines

Good thing the NRA aggressively promotes automatic weapon deregulation. Thanks, guys.

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

The far right slashing away at the "social safety net" and violence-prone dogma pushed by groups like the NRA only accelerates the issues that make people choose to kill people in such a horrible manner.

Except the lunatic Paddock wasn't part of the "social safety net", he was loaded, in more ways than one.