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Shooting at Las Vegas casino

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by melock, Oct 2, 2017.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Oh, the 5.11 wearing tacticool wannabe SEALs are all convinced returning fire would have been the right play if they'd been there. Of course, they're discounting the fact that it's likely nobody picked out where the shots were coming from during the chaos or that their 9mm carry pistols wouldn't reach a 32nd story window from 400 yards away.
     
  2. amraeder

    amraeder Well-Known Member

    Exactly why I only hunt the most dangerous game - ManBearPig
     
  3. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Bret Bielema?
     
  4. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    It'd also quickly be framed as a war on people of color, since poor minorities in inner cities would probably be most likely to be found in possession of guns or to use them in commission of a crime. Then they get five years for the stick-up job and another 10 for having the gun.
    It's kind of the like the unfair sentencing disparities for crack and cocaine.
    You also make a criminal of the guy in a poor neighborhood who keeps a pistol in the house as a last line of defense against an intruder and eventually has to use it. Guy who commits a home invasion gets shot, lives, and gets seven years for the robbery attempt while the homeowner gets 10 years for defending his and his family's lives.
     
  5. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Funny how you neglected to mention that this story was nothing but a dumb hoax. Yes, clearly we need AR-15s to defend against the likes of gentle Fred:

    "Alabama Fisheries and Wildlife quickly revealed that it was a farm animal, and not a wild boar, that was shot in the 150 acre low-fence area. It was an overfed pet, a gentle domestic Duroc swine named Fred."

    Alabama's Monster Pig hoax, one year later
     
    Last edited: Oct 3, 2017
  6. Justin_Rice

    Justin_Rice Well-Known Member

    Good news!

    Infowars, Conversative SomethingOrAnotherOnMyFacebookWall and my Trump-loving friends have begun the, "something isn't adding up; there must be a conspiracy!" talk already.

    No mention if feral hogs were involved in this plot.
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  8. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    I wonder why in the hell this girlfriend is coming here ... it is not going to go well for her.
     
  9. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I'm glad to know more about him, but this just seems like a red herring or rabbit hole to me.

    There are probably thousands of rich retirees who like to gamble. This guy set up shop on the 32nd floor of a Vegas hotel with an arsenal and gunned down hundreds of people, with no criminal or, that we know of, mental health history.

    How the fuck does that happen? No signs manifested before this week over six decades?

    It's insane.
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    The San Bernardino shooter’s mother lived with him in a bomb factory, and she faced no criminal charges.

    Unless there are email/text messages indicating she knew his plans, I doubt she’s in any trouble.
     
  12. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member



    Hard to read.
     
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