“Jesus Campos, a security guard at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino (above), was shot by Paddock six minutes before he began shooting into a crowd of 22,000 people enjoying the country music festival down below, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in a news conference Monday evening.” The foxnews.com report radically … Read more
When an act of evil on the scale of the Mandalay Bay massacre happens, the first impulse (immediately following politicians and advocates attempting to benefit) is to try to divine the killer’s purpose. Sometimes the reason is terrorism (Ft. Hood, San Bernardino, Orlando). Sometimes it’s madness (Gabby Giffords, Sandy Hook, Aurora). But in the week … Read more
Among the many items found by investigator in Stephen Paddock’s Mandalay Bay hotel room after the murderer committed suicide: a piece of paper with numbers the shooter had written down. A note with numbers written on it was found in Paddock’s room, a source close to the investigation told CNN on Friday. The New York Times … Read more
CBS (like every other media outlet in creation) is ignoring a key point about ARs equipped with a bump fire stock: they’re wildly inaccurate. If Las Vegas spree killer Stephen Paddock hadn’t been repeatedly firing into a crowd of thousands, if he’d had to actually aim at individual targets with a bump fire-equipped AR, he … Read more
Reader Jerry Spiegler writes… Dear Mr. Farago, I read your essay in USA Today and found much with which I can agree. By way of disclosure I confess ignorance about guns, except they are rather expensive when I visit the local Cabella’s superstore. However, I am vitally interested in the truth. Today I am 66 … Read more
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Route 91 Harvest music festival crowd wasn’t Stephen Paddock’s only target. He also fired at two jet fuel tanks about 650 yards from the Mandalay Bay hotel, striking them twice. The bullets left two holes in one of two circular white tanks. One of the bullets penetrated the … Read more
Do tell . . . Mass Shootings Are A Bad Way To Understand Gun Violence So mass shootings become a symbol of gun violence in general. The deaths of dozens become a window into the death of one, and a separate one, and a different one over there. This, of course, has already happened with the … Read more
Please tell me Ryan won’t fall for this . . . Pelosi calls on Ryan to form select committee to curb gun violence House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Monday urged Speaker Paul Ryan to create a Select Committee on Gun Violence that would craft “common sense legislation” in the wake of a Las Vegas … Read more
Given this week’s events and the fact that Las Vegas murderer Stephen Paddock apparently used at least one bump fire-equipped rifle during his Mandalay Bay killing spree, the mainstream media have now become aware of the existence of these niche accessories. Which is why TTAG’s RF and Jeremy S. teamed up with Jason Carter of … Read more
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