Shooting at Las Vegas casino

I was just going to post that. Here is the link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story, which is where the Washington Post got its information. (The Post story gives them credit.)

Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest.

Oops. This belongs on the politics thread. Sorry about extending the tangent.

 

Do those numbers include the money the NRA pours into state races?

 

Did Las Vegas killer plan to attack earlier festival? | Daily Mail Online

 

Compared to conversation at hand and the gun crisis, it's inane.

 

It's not me you need to worry about, it's Paul Ryan.

 

From the Daily Mail link at #651:


"Around him lay 23 guns, mostly rifles. Two rifles on the floor next to his body had bipods. At least one of the guns there was fully automatic.

And at least two weapons were modified with 'bump-stocks' that allow the gun to bounce back and forth on the shooter's finger, effectively - if not technically - turning it into an automatic weapon."

 

Not only was there shrapnel, but the high-powered shells he was firing had the power to go completely through one person and into one or two more. A crowd packed that tightly made that even more probable, especially early on before people started to scatter or dive for what they thought was cover.

 

Senator John Thune of South Dakota

 

And people say this country doesn’t have the fortitude to talk about solutions.

 

Didn't see this one, but confirmed that weapons were made to be automatic

 

We’ve known about the bump stocks for a while now.

I never suggested he hadn’t used a legal modification, and @Inky_Wretch suggested that he may have used bump stocks early on.

My skepticism was limited to the idea that he had procured a fully automatic weapon, or had made an illegal modification.

 

Fat shaming!!