Subject: No sense
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Saturday, October 14, 2017
Las Vegas Still Makes No Sense
Everything about this case leads nowhere. Exactly as I suspect was intended
from the outset.
We know Stephen Paddock was found dead at the scene.
We know 197 people were shot, ostensibly from a suite comped to Paddock,
from a pair of rooms he began staying in 6 and 1/2 days prior to the
shooting.
We know in it were found thousands of rounds of ammunition and 23 weapons,
at least 20 of which were nothing but props, and which the carting to the
premises was nothing but theatre, and not expediency.
We know that Paddock acquired 33 of the nearly 50 weapons he owned in the
last 12 months.
We know he stayed at hotels overlooking several other concert sites
recently.
We know he had 10-20 or more 100-round Surefire magazines that fit all the
.223 AR-type rifles found in Vista Suite 32-135.
We know Paddock had virtually no online footprint, no political or religious
affiliations, a far-beyond-comfortable nest-egg, and no discernible
reason(s), neither personal, mental, or physical, to shoot 197 strangers and
kill 58 of them, plus himself.
We know cameras were placed to allow a shooter inside the suite to see the
approach of police coming up a long corridor to the room.
We know the emergency stairwell right outside his suite door was secured
shut.
We know that a hotel security person, and a maintenance worker, were
summoned to the exact floor and wing in question mere minutes before the
shooting, by an unsecured door alarm three doors down from Paddock's rooms.
How convenient.
We know someone inside the room fired several bursts at both of these men,
at spitting distance, yet managed only one superficial injury to the guard,
and none to the maintenance man.
We know that hotel security was notified within seconds, several minutes
before shooting began on the concert, but that it took the police 18-19
minutes to arrive on the 32d floor, and who waited another hour and change
after that to enter the suspect suite.
We know that over several minutes after that, hundreds to thousands of
rounds were fired, ostensibly from the suite, at a concert site packed with
attendees, at a range well within the effective range of an AR .223 rifle,
and at a rate boosted to near full-auto cycling by the use of bump stocks.
We know that target was nearly the size of a WWII aircraft carrier.
We know no one on the ground immediately beneath the hotel reacted untoward
after the initial bursts.
We also know that the initial pounding or shooting out of the windows on the
32d floor also produced no alerts, alarms, or anything else below.
We know that most of the exits from the concert venue were locked, trapping
attendees in a large, stadium-lit killing zone for minutes during the
onslaught, with a rat maze of obstacles to contend with to attempt to flee.
We know that after the initial burst down the hall, and after finishing the
6-minute killing bursts on the concert, no further fire was placed on either
venue, and that it was several minutes, perhaps as many as 10, between the
end of firing from the suite, and the arrival of the first LVMPD officers at
the hallway landing on the 32d floor.
And that's everything.
