I would say his motive was he was a fucking coward with problems that were everybodys fault but his .

 

Damn if this is correct he was shooting from floor 32 Mandalay Bay to the New Concert Venue Just build 2 years ago....


22,000 in the crowd....50 dead 400 injured...

 

Country Music and during the time the National Rodeo was going on..

 

Wounded knee was the worse massacre 250 men, women and children brutally gunned down

 

Sounds like he used a illegal firearm.

A full auto rifle costs upwards of $25K to $80K depending on the gun for a registered legal one.

Building a full auto or converting to full auto without a FFL Type 07/02 is a federal offense with a minimum $10K fine and 10 years in prison plus forfeiture of everything you own. The fine can go up to $500K.

 

Laws might change, I doubt it though and there are thousands of gun laws in the US that do not deter crime and most are never enforced or are dropped in plea deals.

 

This guy planned the entire deal-----said he had platforms built....
he had cameras to watch when police showed up so he could kill himself...

He must have had Drum Magazines by the sound of the gun fire -- more shots than a clip...

he was in the hotel 3 days....he lived in north Las Vegas---

 

Very sad for the innocent 50+ killed and many more injured................BUT when will the politicians start to control guns and stop being held hostage by the NRA and all those retards that think its manly to have lots of guns ( and small cocks) . THERE CAN BE NO REASON FOR ANYONE TO BE ABLE TO BUY TEN POWERFUL WEAPONS WITHOUT THE POLICE BECOMING INVOLVED. Whatever feeble xcuse the NRA, Trump etc comes up with, UNTIL the US starts to control guns this will continue, the rest of the world looks on, shrugs and says what do you expect? We all have enough problems with ISIS etc. without homegrown nutters with no agenda, other than they are a bit depressed......... ok "Have gun will travel" etc. give it your best and try to justify gun ownership, RATHER than hurling insults at what to all sane people is an obvious opinion

 

Mandalay Bay-Las Vegas carnage: surprising/unfathomable?
Is the Mandalay Bay-Las Vegas carnage
really that surprising and unfathomable?

 

Disgusting that something like this happens. Thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved.

 

While you are certainly correct, the situations couldn't be more different. Perhaps I should have stated that it is the worst mass shooting conducted by an individual in US history.

The Las Vegas attack late last night was one individual mass murdering over 50 victims (the number is going to rise) and wounding over 400 more. The massacre at Wounded Knee was actually a battle which featured 400+ armed members of the US cavalry and 100+ armed Lakota Native Americans. There were numerous casualties on both sides.

Sorry for the confusion.

 

Save your thoughts and prayers, this is the new normal and nothing will change.

 

I have a question for those of you that know this............how much does ten assault rifles and associated ammunition weigh??

Thinskin

 

Looking at these to windows he shot from----he must have had a Suite---




400 Yards from the windows to the victims.....

 

No reason not to pray for those affected.....but the stock market is up-----
we seem to be getting use to this crap.....

 

I think we have already become accustomed to this. Shootings are the norm now. As far as why he did it. We may never know why since he killed himself.

 

Thank you shadow walker. Good to see that NRA Paranoia is alive and well and living in a hut some where in the backwoods

 

CNN now reporting 58 dead and 500+ injured.

 

Looks like being a psychotic maniac must run in the shooter Stephen Paddock's family....

Las Vegas shooter's father, 'Bingo Bruce,' lived colorful life of crime and deception


The father of the gunman behind the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history robbed a string of banks in Arizona, escaped prison in Texas and tried to start a new life as the manager of a bingo parlor in Oregon, according to historical newspaper articles.



Eric, the brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, who killed at least 50 people from his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino late Sunday, told the Orlando Sentinel that their father was Benjamin Hoskins Paddock.

The elder Paddock, born in Wisconsin in 1926, had a host of other fake names and nicknames, including “Big Daddy” and “Old Baldy," and was on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list from 1969 to 1977.


Paddock was indicted in 1960 on three counts of robbing Phoenix branches of Valley National Bank, the Arizona Republic reported on Oct. 6 that year. He was accused of stealing close to $25,000 and was caught in the summer of 1960 by FBI agents after returning to Arizona from Las Vegas.

The 6-foot-4, 245-pound Paddock was convicted and slapped with a 20-year prison sentence, but the lengthy jail term was cut short when he busted out of a federal prison in Texas in 1969, the Eugene Register-Guard reported.




An escaped federal prisoner poster issued by the FBI at the time said Paddock was “diagnosed as psychopathic” and “reportedly has suicidal tendencies and should be considered armed and dangerous.”

About six months after the escape, Paddock was involved in an armed robbery at a bank in San Francisco and was awaiting trial related to charges from that incident on Oct. 6, 1978, according to the Oregon newspaper.

Paddock, described by the FBI as being an “avid bridge player,” had managed to live a secret life centered on another game --bingo -- as a parlor manager in Springfield, Ore.

“My view is let him go… and good riddance.”

- Circuit Judge George Woodrich on Benjamin Hoskins Paddock's legal saga
The FBI said Paddock lived for years in the Eugene-Springfield area under the alias of Bruce Werner Ericksen and managed to stay one step ahead of law enforcement by constantly changing his appearance and avoiding contact with police, which may have resulted in fingerprinting, the Eugene Register-Guard reported.

The man dubbed by the newspaper as “Bingo Bruce” appeared to have run out of luck in 1978 when he was arrested, but the feds paroled him and he was back in the number-calling game just a year later.

“He was a nice guy, and helped a lot of people financially and did one hell of a lot for the kids,” former Junction City Mayor Chuck Ivey, who was on the parole board, told the newspaper.

“All that stuff is old news,” Ivey said when he asked about Paddock’s past.

In 1987, the gig finally ended when the Oregon Attorney General’s Office filed seven racketeering charges against Paddock related to his bingo operation. On top of that, he was charged with rolling back car odometers.

Paddock settled the racketeering charges for $623,000 and pleaded no contest to the odometer case, while simultaneously claiming he had cancer.

Among his other life claims: being an auto crew racing chief, Chicago Bears football player and survivor of a World War II mine sweeper sinking, according to the Eugene Register-Guard.

When the final verdict in Paddock’s legal saga came in, and Circuit Judge George Woodrich decided to let him off with a $100,000 fine and no jail time.

“He could be conning everybody, but this is an economic crime and he’s an old man,” the newspaper quoted Woodrich as saying. “My view is let him go… and good riddance.”

Paddock then went back to the Lone Star state and lived there until his death in 1998. Laurel Paulson, a woman he met while living in Oregon, told the Eugene Register-Guard that he got by on a VA pension and helped her run a machine shop.

“He was a man that people either loved or hated,” she said. “He always said he was a dinosaur.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/0...-lived-colorful-life-crime-and-deception.html