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Re: Las Vegas Shooting. 59 dead. Over 515 Injured.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:24 am
by Moggy
Poser wrote:Moggy wrote:
I guess that’s why the conspiracy theories flourish with cases like this, it’s almost unbelievable that one person can do it and it is scary to think that just one person can cause such carnage.
That's very much how Dan Carlin starts his Blueprint for Armageddon series: he posits that conspiracies sit so well because people feel safer knowing that there are greater agencies at work, even if those agencies are committed to doing bad things.
Yeah I agree with that, people are far more scared at the idea of one crazy person killing in a mass spree than they are with the idea of a shadowy government agency doing it.
Re: Las Vegas Shooting. 59 dead. Over 515 Injured.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:26 am
by Corazon de Leon
A second shooter wouldn't surprise me especially, but they'd have to be doing a strawberry floating excellent job of staying under the radar now. I did see that the guy's girlfriend had been made a person of interest again after being previously exonerated(she was out of the country). I think the suggestion was he'd paid her a large sum of money just before the shooting.
Re: Las Vegas Shooting. 59 dead. Over 515 Injured.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:45 am
by Knoyleo
Corazon de Leon wrote:A second shooter wouldn't surprise me especially, but they'd have to be doing a strawberry floating excellent job of staying under the radar now. I did see that the guy's girlfriend had been made a person of interest again after being previously exonerated(she was out of the country). I think the suggestion was he'd paid her a large sum of money just before the shooting.
She's already been taken in for questioning by the FBI after flying in from the Philippines. Apparently the shooter had bought her a holiday out there, and then wired her $100,000 as some kind of life insurance payment. Supposedly she knew nothing about it, and unsurprisingly, it's been reported that they had an abusive relationship.
Re: Las Vegas Shooting. 59 dead. Over 515 Injured.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:54 am
by Corazon de Leon
Knoyleo wrote:Corazon de Leon wrote:A second shooter wouldn't surprise me especially, but they'd have to be doing a strawberry floating excellent job of staying under the radar now. I did see that the guy's girlfriend had been made a person of interest again after being previously exonerated(she was out of the country). I think the suggestion was he'd paid her a large sum of money just before the shooting.
She's already been taken in for questioning by the FBI after flying in from the Philippines. Apparently the shooter had bought her a holiday out there, and then wired her $100,000 as some kind of life insurance payment. Supposedly she knew nothing about it, and unsurprisingly, it's been reported that they had an abusive relationship.
The sheer volume of shitty reporting in the days after this is infuriating, to the point where I really have no idea what has gone on, or what is going on. There should be a ban on immediate news reporting after an event like this for at least a couple of days until reporters have the chance to verify their news sources.
Re: Las Vegas Shooting. 59 dead. Over 515 Injured.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:28 pm
by Knoyleo
Corazon de Leon wrote:Knoyleo wrote:Corazon de Leon wrote:A second shooter wouldn't surprise me especially, but they'd have to be doing a strawberry floating excellent job of staying under the radar now. I did see that the guy's girlfriend had been made a person of interest again after being previously exonerated(she was out of the country). I think the suggestion was he'd paid her a large sum of money just before the shooting.
She's already been taken in for questioning by the FBI after flying in from the Philippines. Apparently the shooter had bought her a holiday out there, and then wired her $100,000 as some kind of life insurance payment. Supposedly she knew nothing about it, and unsurprisingly, it's been reported that they had an abusive relationship.
The sheer volume of shitty reporting in the days after this is infuriating, to the point where I really have no idea what has gone on, or what is going on. There should be a ban on immediate news reporting after an event like this for at least a couple of days until reporters have the chance to verify their news sources.
Most of what I posted is from the BBC, so I'm fairly confident it's reliable. Although the story has been updated since I last read it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41504063
Re: Las Vegas Shooting. 59 dead. Over 515 Injured.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:30 pm
by 7256930752
If any of you are interested, Ian Poulter put his thoughts on Twitter and the replies are just as awful.
-Gun ownership saved us from the oppressive British
-Drugs are illegal and that doesn't stop people getting them
-How are those gun laws working out for you in Europe
-Cars kill far more people than guns
I can't get my head around how people can't see the issue of such casual ownership of a device designed purely to kill.
Re: Las Vegas Shooting. 59 dead. Over 515 Injured.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:35 pm
by OrangeRKN
Hime wrote:-How are those gun laws working out for you in Europe
...quite well?
Re: Las Vegas Shooting. 59 dead. Over 515 Injured.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:38 pm
by Photek
Twitch Streamer Destiny aka Steven Bonnel is brilliantly taking down gun nuts on twitter.
twitter.com/OmniDestiny/status/914920368300847109
twitter.com/OmniDestiny/status/915481546349572096