Las Vegas Shooting: 50+ Dead 500+ Injured at Jason Aldean Concert

[Wormius]

Maybe I am completely missing something, but this seems like a bit of overreaction over satirical comments about vehicles being dangerous weapons.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Overreaction? I think people are mostly mocking a string of laughably bad posts more than anything. Especially since, you know, treating vehicles like guns ignores the irony of how regulated owning a vehicle is.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Maybe I am completely missing something, but this seems like a bit of overreaction over satirical comments about vehicles being dangerous weapons.

Exactly - I'd hate to see what happens when they read The Onion.

[Senator Clay Davis]

We'd laugh far more than reading your attempts at humor?

[PepsiFree]

Never a good sign when you make a bad joke and you’re the type of poster where everyone believes you aren’t joking.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Maybe I am completely missing something, but this seems like a bit of overreaction over satirical comments about vehicles being dangerous weapons.

I think the part you're missing it that it wasn't satirical. Once they were called out on how absurd the comment was, they tried to play that card.

[Minnie]

Shooter's brother detained in child porn investigation (not the one who spoke with media after the shooting). Nice family.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3824238/l...d-pornography/

[Wormius]

Hard to believe it has only been 3 weeks. This shooting has nearly faded completely from the news.

[OMG!WTF!]

The NY Times put together an incredible video analysis of all the available video and audio files of the shooting...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/i...-by-pixel.html

They've got Campos being shot a minute after the first shot was fired. That makes a bunch more sense than the 6 minutes before theory.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Hard to believe it has only been 3 weeks. This shooting has nearly faded completely from the news.

Mass shootings are so commonplace in the States that we've, unfortunately, become somewhat immune to them.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

The NY Times put together an incredible video analysis of all the available video and audio files of the shooting...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/i...-by-pixel.html

They've got Campos being shot a minute after the first shot was fired. That makes a bunch more sense than the 6 minutes before theory.

Incredible work by the Times on this video.

Thanks for posting this.

So if I understand what he is saying, there were 1100 or so rounds fired that night. Nearly half of them found a mark.

Unreal.

[OMG!WTF!]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Incredible work by the Times on this video.

Thanks for posting this.

So if I understand what he is saying, there were 1100 or so rounds fired that night. Nearly half of them found a mark.

Unreal.

Yeah and the really shocking thing was the time between bursts. There were delays of over a minute between some of the bursts of fire...much longer than what would take to switch mags or guns. And also shocking is that he killed himself way before the cops ever arrived. It sounds like it could have been much worse.

That one video where you can here the glass being broken and hitting the ground before the shooting starts is ultimately creepy.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Tough to watch some of that stuff again but that was well done by the NYT.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Incredible work by the Times on this video.

Thanks for posting this.

So if I understand what he is saying, there were 1100 or so rounds fired that night. Nearly half of them found a mark.

Unreal.

Nobody outside of a soldier at war should have the capability to fire roughly 100 bullets a minute at anything living, so very stupid and senseless

[taco.vidal]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Nobody outside of a soldier at war should have the capability to fire roughly 100 bullets a minute at anything living, so very stupid and senseless

The government is at war with its citizens.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by taco.vidal

The government is at war with its citizens.

It's not that the government is at war with its citizens. Rather it is the continued lobbying and contributions of the gun industry to political candidates that prevent politicians from proposing legislation with any teeth that would protect the general public. Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to negligence and incompetency.

[bigtmac19]

That was horrifying to watch.

[Huntingwhale]

That video is insane, wow. What a POS that guy was.

[northcrunk]

Why was Campos allowed to go to Mexico right after the shooting? Wouldn't he be too injured taking a bullet from a high powered rifle? Wouldn't that have shattered his leg?

http://nypost.com/2017/10/26/jesus-c...egas-massacre/

Jesus Campos reportedly left the country days after Vegas massacre

Customs and Border Patrol documents obtained by Fox News show that the 25-year-old entered the United States from Mexico at the San Ysidro border crossing in California — one week after the mass shooting.

[Lubicon]

I was surprised to see that he fired ~200 shots down the hallway of the Mandalay if I am understanding the video correctly. That would likely have played a large part in how the police responded.