What Happened in Vegas?

[DaveP]

1.  It was easier to own a machine gun in the 50s than it is now.
2.  A machine gun was NOT used in Vegas nor Texas, nor any other mass shooting since the 50s that I can recall, except by the government.
Please check facts before posting.

My bad, should have said there were not so many, or Al Capone had them all.
As we are gun ignorant in Europe because we hardly have any, we call any gun that fires lots of bullets a machine gun.
Even though there are bump stocks and assault rifles and technical differentiation.

DaveP

 

[mattiasNYC]

I'll take a stab:

What happened? -

Failed assassination attempt of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. They expected him to be upstairs in his property on the top 4 floors but he was out on the town dressed as a normal american human. Here is the SWAT team escorting him out of the Tropicana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd-qz6ei-UM

Shooters provided cover/distraction for the rival prince(s) to leave when they found out that agents were waiting to ambush them, one shot at the crowd while the other tried to explode fuel tanks shooting at the airport. All the other shooters and bodies reported in the other casinos were a result of SWAT evacuating the crown prince. Tragic that several survivors/witnesses turned up dead shortly after.
Obviously the princes and others who called the hit were rounded up or killed over the weekend, big question to me is who let them leave Vegas, had to be someone very high up.

Interesting to see where all these guys have been putting their money for decades. So nice of them to give all of those millions to the foundation, wonder what they got in return. They were even nice enough to get no-name 26 y.o. Barry into Harvard and pay for his tuition. Always wondered who footed that bill. Even the Bush's old business partner Bin Laden got arrested. No not THAT Bin Laden, his brother. The one that was the business partner, not the arch-nemesis.

Comforting to know our president is safely under guard of our military right now. It's like he has his own little security and intelligence team that reports directly and only to him! I wonder what they know!
Interesting to see where this all goes, maybe we will learn more tomorrow? The date seems significant for some reason.

Or maybe I'm just an idiot. Be safe out there

"I'll take 'Things you can do with tinfoil' for 500 Alex".......

 

[bluebird]

Hahahahahah...

 

[adeptusmajor]

Yes very tinfoiley

Yet now suddenly we are up to 33 sealed indictments in DC courts.

Is it "!!!IMPEACH DRUMPF!!!"
Or maybe something else?

 

[Scodiddly]

My bad, should have said there were not so many, or Al Capone had them all.
As we are gun ignorant in Europe because we hardly have any, we call any gun that fires lots of bullets a machine gun.
Even though there are bump stocks and assault rifles and technical differentiation.

DaveP

Arguing over definitions is often used as a tactic to shut down discussions about gun control.

 

[mattiasNYC]

Arguing over definitions is often used as a tactic to shut down discussions about gun control.

I agree, and I was actually about to post something about that but remembered that I  posted some quip about it before at some point. It's often beside the point whether or not we call weapon X a "machine gun" or "assault rifle" or something else, if the point we're making is that whatever that weapon is called it should probably not be sold to regular people.

I guess "red herring" is an appropriate term.

 

[bruno2000]

My bad, should have said there were not so many, or Al Capone had them all.
As we are gun ignorant in Europe because we hardly have any, we call any gun that fires lots of bullets a machine gun.
Even though there are bump stocks and assault rifles and technical differentiation.

DaveP

A gun that fires a lot of bullets could be called a single shot shotgun..........many small projectiles with one trigger pull......
Definitions matter.
Best,
Bruno2000

 

[Matador]

Definitions matter.

Why, exactly? It seems to be arguing a distinction with no real difference.

 

[bruno2000]

Why, exactly? It seems to be arguing a distinction with no real difference.

Because that's the way laws are written.
Best,
Bruno2000