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Thought about the Vegas murderer

Posted by David Hardy · 8 October 2017 08:30 PM

From a Briton who contacted Mark Steyne. Remarkable, but it passes my version of Occam's Razor: it is consistent with all known facts and inconsistent with none.

4 Comments | Leave a comment

Grey Mouser | October 9, 2017 7:23 AM | Reply

The analysis seems spot on to me.

There was no need to smuggle all the weapons to his room. Given a number of magazines, and the general reliability of his weapons, he could have carried out his entire attack with 2-4 rifles. Two types, with a backup for each. He was only shooting for 10-15 minutes. There's no reason for him to bring 24 guns to the scene.

The modifications and accessories mounted to the weapons read like a gun controllers worst nightmare. High capacity coffin magazines, forward hand grips, reflex sights, bump stocks. He had 50 lbs. of tannerite in his car. If there was something that could cause gun control advocates to freak out, he had it in spades, and on display. Many of the weapons were outfitted in ways that were not conducive to the nature of the attack, but include every kind of accessory imaginable.

His motive wasn't just to cause casualties, but to create massive fear and division in our country.

Dittybopper | October 9, 2017 12:49 PM | Reply

I believe that the reason the shooter had a number of essentially identical weapons was so that he could maintain a high rate of fire even though the guns weren't rated for it. Dump a couple magazines worth of ammo through one gun, it gets hot, swap for a cold gun, continue for a couple magazines, drop that one and go to a third, etc. By the time you've worked your way back to the first gun, it's cooled off somewhat and you can dump a couple more mags through it.


Which tells me this guy was smart enough to know that dumping a few hundred rounds per minute continuously through an AR-15 is going to melt it down in short order. There are YouTube videos of that happening on purpose.

He was planning appropriately for near continuous simulated automatic firing over an extended period of time.

FWB | October 10, 2017 8:54 AM | Reply

And like the other mass shooting the root cause of these actions was/is psychologists and psychiatrists and their "drugs" which never fix a problem but only serve to cover it up.

I've yet to understand why Americans are so enamored with psychology when it has no scientific basis. I'm talking scientific as in hard sciences such as chem or phys. These people can't tell you what the chemical and biochemical pathways are that store and retrieve information from the brain. They can screw with it using "drugs" but they have no elucidation of the actual chemistry/biochemistry involved. Ask them, "what chemical(s)/element(s)/molecule(s)/compound(s) is/are it/they that stores memories?" Of course no answer so how does anyone think these people can "help" when they don't know what they are doing?

Anonymous | October 15, 2017 8:16 PM | Reply

I have to admit as time has progressed with no other motive advanced, the theory is seeming more and more likely. That said, I agree with the previous remarks too - especially about psychology. For decades I've told people I place it in the same category as alchemy and astrology.

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