Las Vegas: Active shooter reported near Mandalay Bay

[edpc]

Aw Geez!  Now ABC is rehashing Obama's responses to prior mass killings.  The Obama worship at the networks is sickening.  All the idiot ever did after these shootings was make the case for more gun control.  No compassion for the dead and injured, no encouragement for a shocked nation.  Just politics, politics, politics.

The push over the past decade for curbing gun ownership, installing universal healthcare, and relaxing drug laws has always struck me as particularly insidious.  I'm not a grassy knoller, but a sedated, unarmed populous, with your life literally in the government's hands?  That's a terrible combination, inviting control and oppression.

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

Yes, that's true.  That's the picture of a real hero.  Knew he could be gunned down at any second but was willing to risk himself for strangers.

John 15:13  "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

All the more so for a stranger. May Almighty God Bless him and all those others who ignored their own safety to help others.

[Smokin Joe]

The push over the past decade for curbing gun ownership, installing universal healthcare, and relaxing drug laws has always struck me as particularly insidious.  I'm not a grassy knoller, but a sedated, unarmed populous, with your life literally in the government's hands?  That's a terrible combination, inviting control and oppression.

I wrote an essay in AP English over 40 years ago that postulated a future between Brave New World and 1984, with the worst of both. Well, we're here.

[edpc]

I wrote an essay in AP English over 40 years ago that postulated a future between Brave New World and 1984, with the worst of both. Well, we're here.

Definitely approaching, if not on the precipice.

[Applewood]

@Applewood

Did they mention his shout-out after the Fort Hood killings?  I'm willing to bet they didn't.

Didn't see that, but there was one clip -- maybe after Sandy Hook??? -- where Obama appears to wipe away a fake tear.  PFFFT!

[edpc]

Didn't see that, but there was one clip -- maybe after Sandy Hook??? -- where Obama appears to wipe away a fake tear.  PFFFT!

Bill at Ron Brown's funeral still beats all.....

[txradioguy]

Some idiot is on Fox claiming that we have 64 "mass shootings" a day.

[Applewood]

Bill at Ron Brown's funeral still beats all.....

That looks like he's laughing.  Either that, or he had a long night with some babe and he had just gotten out of bed.

[Smokin Joe]

Some idiot is on Fox claiming that we have 64 "mass shootings" a day.

[Applewood]

Some idiot is on Fox claiming that we have 64 "mass shootings" a day.

And all of them in Chicago?

[bigheadfred]

Some idiot is on Fox claiming that we have 64 "mass shootings" a day.

Those are opiate ODs on Ohio.

[Smokin Joe]

And all of them in Chicago?

Don't leave out Philly and East St.Louis!

[Silver Pines]

John 15:13  "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

All the more so for a stranger. May Almighty God Bless him and all those others who ignored their own safety to help others.

@Smokin Joe

Amen to that, my brother.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

@IsailedawayfromFR
A lot of things have changed since 1966.

It would have been justifiable homicide, just like in 1966.

[Silver Pines]

Didn't see that, but there was one clip -- maybe after Sandy Hook??? -- where Obama appears to wipe away a fake tear.  PFFFT!

@Applewood

I think I remember that.

I'd post a link, but I don't want to trash up the thread with Obama.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Those days he spent in the room prior to last night would have given him ample time to see the ingress and egress patters of the crowds when the daily concerts were over so as to better know which way the people would head once the gunfire began.

That should be known from the video camera everywhere.

Las Vegas likely has more than almost anywhere else.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Something that is not often discussed in the UT shooting incident was the fact students had rifles in their vehicles and were shooting back.  That kept Whitman occupied, under cover, and unable to shoot more people.

I grew up in Austin and was there when the shooting occurred.  Charles Whitman lived about 6 blocks away from our house.

I never heard about that one.

The guy was a phenomenal marksman.  A kid at the high school I attended was shot in the leg while riding a bicycle on Guadalupe, about 2 blocks away from the UT Tower.

[bigheadfred]

The push over the past decade for curbing gun ownership, installing universal healthcare, and relaxing drug laws has always struck me as particularly insidious.  I'm not a grassy knoller, but a sedated, unarmed populous, with your life literally in the government's hands? That's a terrible combination, inviting control and oppression.

For people who are completely sick of that shit it is a target rich environment.

And since I am so late to the thread and ain't gonna read all of it....

HAIL SATAN!!!!

[Applewood]

@Applewood

I think I remember that.

I'd post a link, but I don't want to trash up the thread with Obama.

Yes.  Bad enough I even mentioned him in the first place.

[Rivergirl]

Alex Jones on this.   Claims it's conspiracy by ISIS, etc. and assorted other actors. 

[bigheadfred]

For a one day total for one guy, an outstanding performance.

Given the murder rate in this country it is still an outstanding performance.


HAIL SATAN!!!!

[edpc]

I grew up in Austin and was there when the shooting occurred.  Charles Whitman lived about 6 blocks away from our house.

I never heard about that one.

The guy was a phenomenal marksman.  A kid at the high school I attended was shot in the leg while riding a bicycle on Guadalupe, about 2 blocks away from the UT Tower.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/07/50_years_after_the_university.html

[bigheadfred]

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

Except for the fact gone effing crazy is the law of the land.

Brain dead populace with no moral compass. Unless you count the one installed on your Smart Phone. I saw one of those. It kept saying turn left. Turn left. Turn left.

Your glorious leaders have manipulated and ginned up such division and hatred in this country its total demise is imminent.

HAIL SATAN!!!!

[txradioguy]

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

Except for the fact gone effing crazy is the law of the land.

Brain dead populace with no moral compass. Unless you count the one installed on your Smart Phone. I saw one of those. It kept saying turn left. Turn left. Turn left.

Your glorious leaders have manipulated and ginned up such division and hatred in this country its total demise is imminent.

HAIL SATAN!!!!

Dude...seriously...not the time for your stupid sh*t.

You may think you're funny right now...no one else is laughing.

[EasyAce]

Alex Jones on this.   Claims it's conspiracy by ISIS, etc. and assorted other actors.

@Rivergirl
Someone needs to remind Mr. Jones that ISIS would claim retroactive credit for the St.
Valentine's Day Massacre if they could find enough like him to listen and believe.