(10-02-2017, 07:42 PM)BIAD Wrote: ...By the way, if DFC is correct and the firearms aren't from this persons stock,
has this be simply overlooked or will it just be assumed he purchased them in
another way.
From what I've heard, it's difficult to buy such terrible weapons.
It is, unless you've got bottomless pockets full of money. Let that sink in for a minute.
But wait, there's more!
Think on this a while, too - no military record. No record of military training. yet he scoped out the place ahead of time (that sort of recon is a must for something like this), knew what to look for and how to set up, and managed to hit targets at that distance, firing down hill. That's not an easy task, even for lightly trained people. Any sniper or machine gunner will tell you that there are special considerations to take into account when firing down hill or up hill. It's not like in the movies - simply holding the trigger down and sweeping the muzzle are not enough to ensure hits in a "spray and pray" strategy. That's just movies.
He's had SOME sort of training and practice at some time... and NO ONE, not even his own family, knows anything about it. I just saw an interview with his brother Eric, who helped him move to Mesquite last year, and his big question is "Where the hell did he get the machine guns? He had no military background! All he had were legally purchased handguns." Think deeply on that... and wonder when Eric is going to have that AHA! moment where he thinks to ask "how did he even learn to use a machine gun?". machine gunnery is specialized training.
For something of this nature, with that many casualties, that's going to take a LOT of ammo, too - not every bullet is going to be a "hit", and conservatively he would have to have had at least twice the number of bullets as he had hits, and more likely a 10:1 ratio. That's a lot of ammo, a HEAVY lot of ammo, to sneak past hotel security in your over coat.
Watch and see what sort of demands for new legislation or "changes" suddenly pop into the news within the next 5 days. you'll find the reason and motive for this when they get around to making those demands, and they can't wait for it to go cold and be replaced by a new news cycle before they do.
Just sayin'...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’