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Nobody saw it coming.
People who knew him said he wasn't a 'gun guy' yet he owned almost 50 firearms. Because that's 'normal'?
Even the gun shop owner who sold him a couple of guns said he seemed normal... which is like talking to a dope dealer when one of his customers has an overdose.
Thousands of rounds of ammo. Is this normal?
Modified rifles to shoot faster. Is this normal?
All legal.
He had cameras outside his room so he knew when the cops were coming.
He shuffled up nearly 30 weapons - many of them modified semi-automatic rifles - into his room over a period of days. Is this normal?
I don't care about his motives. His methods were clear. He wanted to kill as many people as possible and went about it in a methodical way. He bought lots of high powered guns - guns whose DNA is military - their purpose is to kill people. He modded them to shoot more, shoot faster - and proceeded to do so.
Not shot guns. Not bolt action hunting rifles. Rifles designed to kill. Is this normal?
He found himself a nice sniper's nest, stocked it over a period of days then rained lead down on a country western concert. I know gun nuts, their biggest wet dream is to be there when some lunatic starts shooting and they - the calm, rational man (it's always a man) pulls out his concealed weapon and removes the killer from the scene. Yeah, this time... you would have needed to fire *up* a few dozen stories.
And with silencers... he could have kept on shooting while they tried to figure out where the gunfire was coming from.
His reasons are unknown... but his methods are clear: semi-automatic weapons and lots of them. That he brought so many with him is overkill. And these those puppies don't come cheap either. He had a small fortune (compared to what most people have in the bank) in killing iron in his room and at his home.
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. I hope this is an exception.
The means and methods to the mass killings in the past few decades are clear - guns. Lots of them. Time to get rid of them.
Oh... by the way... how many of those over 500 wounded have enough health insurance to cover their wounds? Yeah, go figure *that* into the cost of gun ownership.
-m
People who knew him said he wasn't a 'gun guy' yet he owned almost 50 firearms. Because that's 'normal'?
Even the gun shop owner who sold him a couple of guns said he seemed normal... which is like talking to a dope dealer when one of his customers has an overdose.
Thousands of rounds of ammo. Is this normal?
Modified rifles to shoot faster. Is this normal?
All legal.
He had cameras outside his room so he knew when the cops were coming.
He shuffled up nearly 30 weapons - many of them modified semi-automatic rifles - into his room over a period of days. Is this normal?
I don't care about his motives. His methods were clear. He wanted to kill as many people as possible and went about it in a methodical way. He bought lots of high powered guns - guns whose DNA is military - their purpose is to kill people. He modded them to shoot more, shoot faster - and proceeded to do so.
Not shot guns. Not bolt action hunting rifles. Rifles designed to kill. Is this normal?
He found himself a nice sniper's nest, stocked it over a period of days then rained lead down on a country western concert. I know gun nuts, their biggest wet dream is to be there when some lunatic starts shooting and they - the calm, rational man (it's always a man) pulls out his concealed weapon and removes the killer from the scene. Yeah, this time... you would have needed to fire *up* a few dozen stories.
And with silencers... he could have kept on shooting while they tried to figure out where the gunfire was coming from.
His reasons are unknown... but his methods are clear: semi-automatic weapons and lots of them. That he brought so many with him is overkill. And these those puppies don't come cheap either. He had a small fortune (compared to what most people have in the bank) in killing iron in his room and at his home.
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. I hope this is an exception.
The means and methods to the mass killings in the past few decades are clear - guns. Lots of them. Time to get rid of them.
Oh... by the way... how many of those over 500 wounded have enough health insurance to cover their wounds? Yeah, go figure *that* into the cost of gun ownership.
-m
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