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Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas

posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting

A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 02 2017, @07:06PM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 02 2017, @07:06PM (#576094) Homepage Journal

    Check the audio in the videos. He was most definitely full auto.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:36AM (#576495)

    While it could have been due to echoing sound reaching the recording cameras, I perceived a change in fire rate several times.

    It reminded me of what often happens when someone is using a "bump-fire" stock to turn a semi-automatic firearm into a kinda-sorta full-auto firearm. Example [youtube.com]