Mass Shooting at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

[Fartsniffage]

As bad as this was, it could have been worse. The guy had a pilots license....

So you are saying that he could have flown into the crowd guns blazing?

Don't need guns if you're not planning to survived the attack.

[Thermodolia]

Point A:

It was a joke.

Sure it was.

Point B: The Desert Eagle is actually really powerful and useful.

Yeah, when you run out of ammo you can club your assailant to death.

To be honest I laughed way to hard at that

[Thermodolia]

He doesn't have kids does he?

I think they are stepchildren, but he and his wife did have several; it's very unfortunate.

Oh that's awful

[Sovaal]

Sure it was.


Yeah, when you run out of ammo you can club your assailant to death.

To be honest I laughed way to hard at that

Duels with unloaded Deagles when?

[Thermodolia]

So you are saying that he could have flown into the crowd guns blazing?

Don't need guns if you're not planning to survived the attack.

Well they did shoot themselves so....

[Sovaal]

I think they are stepchildren, but he and his wife did have several; it's very unfortunate.

Oh that's awful

terrible situtation all the round. Honestly, why do some people have to be so shitty?

[Sovaal]

They gotta get in some cheap shots bro.

The original point was a person suggesting they carry a firearm because they fear criminals, thugs and rapists. Related because of their love of their "freedom" yet they can't outside their house without a weapon in case they meet someone else who means ill for them. That doesn't sound like freedom to me, it sounds like living in a psychological prison.

One person's reason =/= everyone's' reason.

[Ifreann]

Local news is reporting that someone my family was friends with was killed in the shooting. I didn't know him very well, but I had been to parties at his house.

That's awful, man.

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Sure it was.


Yeah, when you run out of ammo you can club your assailant to death.

To be honest I laughed way to hard at that

I may have swiped the joke from the C&Rsenal episode about the Webley.

[Thermodolia]

Local news is reporting that someone my family was friends with was killed in the shooting. I didn't know him very well, but I had been to parties at his house.

That's awful, man.

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To be honest I laughed way to hard at that

I may have swiped the joke from the C&Rsenal episode about the Webley.

Well it's a good one

[Gig em Aggies]

Talk about your visions of the future.

Although I assume a better use of them would have been to go up to the guys room before he started shooting.

Imagine just kicking down the door before the shooting started...

"Surprise Motherfucker!"

Stop your making me into a monster for laughing at that joke you said not the situation

[Greater Redosia]

I have a couple friends in Las Vegas, I either hope they didn't go to the concert or that they are okay. When I get home I'm getting on discord right away to make sure they're alright.


May those that are injured survive, may those that have sadly died Rest In Peace, and may the people of Las Vegas continue on.

[Sovaal]

Local news is reporting that someone my family was friends with was killed in the shooting. I didn't know him very well, but I had been to parties at his house.

That's awful, man.

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To be honest I laughed way to hard at that

I may have swiped the joke from the C&Rsenal episode about the Webley.

I need to watch more C&R. But every time I do I want a new weapon.

[Major-Tom]

That sucks man. I'm sorry for your loss

I didn't know him very well, myself. I'd been to parties at his house with my family; my parents knew him and his wife well though.

Shit, man. Wishing them the best, and also wishing my best to everyone affected out there.

[Thermodolia]

Imagine just kicking down the door before the shooting started...

"Surprise Motherfucker!"

Stop your making me into a monster for laughing

[Imperializt Russia]

Remember when people wouldn't stop attacking Sadiq Khan over the "part of living in a modern city" quote in reference to a spate of terror attacks in London?

Channel 4 News had on an American gun publisher who just made the exact same argument - "it's the price of living in a free country".
Fucking dumbfounded.

[Thermodolia]

Remember when people wouldn't stop attacking Sadiq Khan over the "part of living in a modern city" quote in reference to a spate of terror attacks in London?

Channel 4 News had on an American gun publisher who just made the exact same argument - "it's the price of living in a free country".
Fucking dumbfounded.

People say dumb things in different ways. News at 11

[Rusozak]

My heart goes out tot hose affected, and I hope real change for the better comes from this. Enough's enough when you're not even surprised about these things anymore.

That said, what I'm interested to see is if after years of heckling Obama for never saying "Islamic terrorism" Trump is ever going to call this guy a terrorist. So far all the news channels seem to be following his example. Apparently the criteria for being a terrorist is being tied to an Islamic terrorist group.

[Vassenor]

Remember when people wouldn't stop attacking Sadiq Khan over the "part of living in a modern city" quote in reference to a spate of terror attacks in London?

Channel 4 News had on an American gun publisher who just made the exact same argument - "it's the price of living in a free country".
Fucking dumbfounded.

IOKIYAC.

[Imperializt Russia]

Point B: The Desert Eagle is actually really powerful and useful.

It is very powerful, it is not very useful. It is gas-operated, which is weird for a pistol, exceedingly heavy and firing a stupidly large cartridge.

It's a range queen gun. There's a reason it shows up all the time in videogames and hip-hop culture. It's not because it's good.
9mm cartridges have probably killed more people in history than any other centrefire cartridge and aren't "ineffective" or whatever other bullshit led you to (allegedly) look into a Desert Eagle.

[Gig em Aggies]

My heart goes out tot hose affected, and I hope real change for the better comes from this. Enough's enough when you're not even surprised about these things anymore.

That said, what I'm interested to see is if after years of heckling Obama for never saying "Islamic terrorism" Trump is ever going to call this guy a terrorist. So far all the news channels seem to be following his example. Apparently the criteria for being a terrorist is being tied to an Islamic terrorist group.

Well technically he is a terrorist just not one of the Islamic kind.

[Imperializt Russia]

My heart goes out tot hose affected, and I hope real change for the better comes from this. Enough's enough when you're not even surprised about these things anymore.

That said, what I'm interested to see is if after years of heckling Obama for never saying "Islamic terrorism" Trump is ever going to call this guy a terrorist. So far all the news channels seem to be following his example. Apparently the criteria for being a terrorist is being tied to an Islamic terrorist group.

Well technically he is a terrorist just not one of the Islamic kind.

As they so often say, terrorism is about goals and motivation. Violently pressing an agenda.

It is not "doing a heck of a scare".
Maybe if motive can be gleaned from this we can revisit this point, but what agenda is really being pressed here? "Down with country music?"
Who is meant to be frightened or bullied into action, for what, here?

[Rusozak]

My heart goes out tot hose affected, and I hope real change for the better comes from this. Enough's enough when you're not even surprised about these things anymore.

That said, what I'm interested to see is if after years of heckling Obama for never saying "Islamic terrorism" Trump is ever going to call this guy a terrorist. So far all the news channels seem to be following his example. Apparently the criteria for being a terrorist is being tied to an Islamic terrorist group.

Well technically he is a terrorist just not one of the Islamic kind.

I know. My point is that the president and the media refuse to acknowledge that. When the Boston Marathon bombing or the Orlando shooting happened everyone was using the word "terrorist" right away. But so far I've only heard "lone shooter" and "seemingly no connections to terrorism" with this guy.

[Vassenor]

Well technically he is a terrorist just not one of the Islamic kind.

I know. My point is that the president and the media refuse to acknowledge that. When the Boston Marathon bombing or the Orlando shooting happened everyone was using the word "terrorist" right away. But so far I've only heard "lone shooter" and "seemingly no connections to terrorism" with this guy.

We've seen the LVPD dance around the issue already, insisting on calling him a "disturbed individual".

[Imperializt Russia]

Well technically he is a terrorist just not one of the Islamic kind.

I know. My point is that the president and the media refuse to acknowledge that. When the Boston Marathon bombing or the Orlando shooting happened everyone was using the word "terrorist" right away. But so far I've only heard "lone shooter" and "seemingly no connections to terrorism" with this guy.

Well with the Boston Bombing, it was because it was, well, a bomb. Coordinated multiple bombs, at that.
And it was then sadly reinforced by racial stereotyping of first a Saudi person unconnected to the attack and then again when it transpired the actual attackers were furrin Islamics.

Sure, it was actually terrorism, attacking the American state/"the west" by proxy through a high-profile high-casualty attack on Americans/"westerners".
The issue isn't whether the Boston Bombing was considered "terrorism" from the outset, but that it was clearly dogwhistling as Islamic terrorism. And sadly it was.

But this was a mass shooting by a white guy, so it's never terrorism (unless you shoot at Conservative Representatives apparently, but ok).

[Thermodolia]

My heart goes out tot hose affected, and I hope real change for the better comes from this. Enough's enough when you're not even surprised about these things anymore.

That said, what I'm interested to see is if after years of heckling Obama for never saying "Islamic terrorism" Trump is ever going to call this guy a terrorist. So far all the news channels seem to be following his example. Apparently the criteria for being a terrorist is being tied to an Islamic terrorist group.

Well technically he is a terrorist just not one of the Islamic kind.

He might not be one at all.