Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Las Vegas Shooting: More Questions Than Answers

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Logic.  I try to be as logical as I can be with the information provided.  While I am not a conspiracy theorist, I do believe that sometimes the folks that we sometimes are convinced have aluminum caps on their heads and a calculator in their shirt pocket may be on to something - though their explanation as to why something is the way it is may not always be exactly right.

The Las Vegas shooting earlier this week, which has turned out to be the deadliest mass shooting in modern American History, has me a little puzzled.  I have questions, and while I am not ready to chase a "the government did it" narrative, I do believe there are elements in certain positions of power in government, and in non-government entities (such as education and the media) who may be willing to go so far as to stage a shooting (some believe Sandy Hook was staged) so as to advance their agenda regarding gun control, or take advantage of a truly horrific and true shooting so as to bend and twist (or simply not reveal all aspects) of the truth from something that may hurt their leftist narrative to a story that would be more beneficial to what they are trying to accomplish.

That all said, let me pose a few questions that, while I am not quite sure there is some sinister conspiracy going on, show that everything regarding this shooting just does not completely add up.

1.  Stephen Paddock has been described as a 64 year old man who has no political or religious preferences, and no interest in firearms (He was not known to have strong political beliefs, an interest in firearms, a history of violence, mental-health issues, or anything else that might explain why he would commit such a horrific act.  NYMAG).  How is it, then, that he suddenly became a proficient shooter with firearms he expertly modified so that they could automatically fire, killing 59 people, and injuring over 500, all by himself from a block away (several hundred feet) from an elevated staging point?

2.  He killed over 50 people, injured over 500 (granted, many of the 527 wounded were hurt during the chaos of stampeding bodies running for some kind of safety), and did so in a span of 10 to 15 minutes.  While the most proficient shooter may be capable of such a thing, a guy with no interest in firearms and no military experience would likely not be able to pull it off.

3.  The windows of the Mandalay Bay hotel do not open, and the only two windows broken at the hotel are the two from Paddock's vast suite on the 32nd floor.  If that is the case, then what are the flashes of light on the fourth floor being reported by some people who claim there was another shooter on the fourth floor?
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4.  Based on the images provided, Paddock looks like an average 64 year old that is probably not in great shape.  How is it that the senior citizen shooter smuggled 23 firearms, plenty of ammunition, and all of the other gear to his hotel room by himself without any help without straining his back, and without being noticed?  Where was security?  Is there video showing him do all of this work?  Did he lug it all up there in one day, or over a period of time?

5. His own brother asked a question we should be asking: "He’s not an avid gun guy at all. The fact that he had those kind of weapons is just – where the hell did he get automatic weapons? He has no military background or anything like that,” he told MSNBC.  He likely used "bump-stocks" to enable his rifles to fire repeatedly.

6.  What about the woman who warned concert-goers of the shooting?  One witness said another woman told the crowd that they were “all going to die tonight” just before the shooting.

Brianna Hendricks, told KSNV, an NBC affiliate station in Las Vegas, that she attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival, where a lone gunman opened fire and killed 59 people and injured more than 500.  She said she saw a woman who pushed her way into the front row of the concert and issue a warning.

The witness said the woman started messing with some other people in the crowd, and then started saying “that we’re all going to die tonight,” according to Business Insider.

"There was a lady who pushed her way forward into the concert venue and into the first row, and she started messing with another lady, and told us that we were all going to die tonight," Hendricks said. "None of us knew that it was going to be serious."

The incident happened 45 minutes before the shooting, Hendricks told KSNV.

Both the woman and another man were escorted away from the concert, she added.

Authorities have not revealed anything about the woman.

7.  Why did the police scanner indicate that there were multiple shooters, but also state a shooter was also on the 29th floor?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSri0ajQfcM (listen at 4:20 mark).  Again, while there is no hard evidence of a second shooter, and police deny that there was a second shooter, circumstantial evidence convincingly suggests that there was a second shooter.

8.  Which brings us to another piece of circumstantial evidence suggesting Paddock had help.  If Stephen Paddock was alone, why did he order room service for two people as it shows on his receipt?

9.  Also in an attempt to support the possibility of a second shooter, one must ask why one witness named Jessica Cabrera called her father from Las Vegas and screamed into the phone: "They're shooting at us. People are falling. I love you!"  They're?  Why not "Someone's shooting at us?

9. Why does the receipt for room service say he checked into his room on September 27th, but police and the media say he checked in on September 28th?

10.  If all whites, according to the left, are white supremacists and are racist and dangerously wish to kill minorities, why did the white shooter go to a country-western music festival to fire into a crowd of mostly white people?

11.  Why did the lights go off while the EMTs were attempting to help the wounded and dying.  VIDEO

Is that Paddock in the pink outfit at an anti-Trump rally?
12.  How is it that a deliberate and meticulously planned act of terror has absolutely no obvious motive?  Surely, something is known about "why" the shooter did what he did, right?  Or, do they (deep state?  leftist media?) know things and they aren't telling us because it doesn't fit their narrative?  Is not the reality that the target audience was full of pro-gun, politically supportive of Donald Trump, enough to consider that the concert was the perfect target for Paddock's possible leftist political expression?  Mass shootings always have one of two motives.  Either a certain type of group or person is being targeted due to some kind of social, political or personal disagreement, or the person wants to go out with a blanket of notoriety over them so that they can transcend who they were in life (as we've seen with shootings like Columbine, these kinds of shooters tend to be young).

13.  Why did Paddock wire $100,000 to the Philippines the week before?  NBC

14.  Why did ISIS claim the shooting as being by one of their recent converts?  Do they claim that everything is theirs, or do they normally only claim something if they have some kind of connection?

In short, there's more to the story we are being told, and I think information is being hidden and not released because it would be damaging to the anti-gun agenda.

I am only asking questions.

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