Regardless of his motivation, dude was crazy. No sane person does this sort of thing.I think it's probably a mentally ill guy.
Regardless of his motivation, dude was crazy. No sane person does this sort of thing.I think it's probably a mentally ill guy.
Thats pretty much a given.Yes but the reports are he is NOT a military vet so that rules that out unless they're wrong.
I seriously doubt any political motivation is the root source here. I think it's probably a mentally ill guy.
Good grief man. That's just sad. It seems like the man went to war at this point.They just revised estimates to over 400 injured now.
Police also said the shooter was dead when they entered his hotel room, an apparent suicide.
Should've been your first warning.USAToday has an article
seems like with a large number of these instances, the family has a "but he was a good boy and wasn't capable of this" momentI read that the family of the shooter is shocked by his actions. I find this extremely difficult to believe. Something like this, they had to know something was off. No one just wakes up one day and decides to do this.
Not to deflect, but that was same BS we heard with Michael Brown in the Ferguson police shooting. But as the old saying goes "denial is not a river in Egypt."seems like with a large number of these instances, the family has a "but he was a good boy and wasn't capable of this" moment
The reports I have read stated that there were as many as 8 firearms recovered from the scene.Reports are that he had been at the hotel for 3 days. He had set up 2 platforms in the room to have a better vantage point to fire down from. Whatever the "reason", it seems he planned this and certainly was not an impulse thing.
I'm not a gun expert, but I wouldn't be surprised if multiple weapons were used based on the sounds I'm hearing.
The amount of human suffering here is shocking. I fear the number dead will rise.
If you have deep secrets that you don't share with everyone it's not that hard to understand how a family wouldn't know that something like this is possible. In some cases it would be easy to know that something is off as in cases such as one of my wife's family members, and in others you would never know until it was too late.I read that the family of the shooter is shocked by his actions. I find this extremely difficult to believe. Something like this, they had to know something was off. No one just wakes up one day and decides to do this.
I tend to agree with you. A bump-fired AR-15 is even faster than his rate of fire, which sounded like full auto. Also, on NBC, they said he had no criminal record...It's either fully automatic from the factory or has been tampered with to be made fully automatic. I'd lean towards tampering but hearing some more about the guy he may have had the resources to go through the process of legally acquiring a fully automatic weapon. Those were large mags he was cycling through and the rate of fire is pretty slow so the weapon was likely larger than an SMG...something like an AKM or thereabouts is possible. I think ALL Americans, pro-gun or anti are going to be shocked at what they guy was packing.
I'll be real, I know some good ol' boys who have modified their AK's to go full auto out on their farm - so that's why I lean that direction first - would be easier and cheaper to modify a gun to do that rather than acquire one legally, but who knows.
Yeah, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother said the same thing. Seriously.seems like with a large number of these instances, the family has a "but he was a good boy and wasn't capable of this" moment
Yeah, there ARE a few. We can usually piece it together afterwards.If you have deep secrets that you don't share with everyone it's not that hard to understand how a family wouldn't know that something like this is possible. In some cases it would be easy to know that something is off as in cases such as one of my wife's family members, and in others you would never know until it was too late.
I have had personal experience with a close friend of the family being fun and jovial the majority of the time to the outside world right up until he did a murder/suicide involving his kids.
https://twitter.com/abc/status/914735456943607808WTH?Definitely sounds like at least one weapon was hand cranked.
https://twitter.com/abc/status/914735456943607808
Yikes man. So very glad that you are ok.Was in hotel during shooting last night. It was a madhouse