These things are becoming almost normal – but it seems another 20 innocent people have lost their lives for the sake of ‘freedom’.

I can only guess how Trump is going to make this worse, but he will.

Terrible news.

Yep, sad and predictable.

Apparently the US is heading for 15,000 gun deaths this year!

First on the massacre bingo page “lone wolf”.

P-Jay – Member
First on the massacre bingo page “lone wolf”.

already saying he was an ‘ultra-leftist’ so itll be Hillary conspiracies

makes no differnce to the victims & their families

A lone wolf gunman ..an act of terror but is it being treat as a terrorist act ?
Thoughts and sympathy to all caught up in this ..

I will never understand why random civilians are the targets.
If you have a beef, it surely can’t be with them and if you have a message it is surely always lost.

Moar gunz. We need moar gunz.

Obvious response is obvious. 😥

How depressing it’ll be to hear a president with Trump’s word skills react to this. Think he’ll do a banal “Tweet” first? what a ****

So how come the other citizens with guns didn’t take him out then ?

He was 32 stories up for a start.

Trimix – Member
So how come the other citizens with guns didn’t take him out then ?

ah so arming the populations doesn’t make it safer. Good to know that one.

So how come the other citizens with guns didn’t take him out then ?

He was in a hotel room 2-300 metres away.

Country & Western fans only take their handguns to open air music festivals. They leave the AR-15 in the car, so they wouldn’t have been able to get him.

So how come the other citizens with guns didn’t take him out then ?

It’s interesting, the rhetoric you see on Reddit etc whenever the topic of gun control comes up is:

“I’d rather have a gun to defend myself”

Or if something happens in another country:

“If your citizens were armed this wouldn’t happen as he would get shot by members of the public”

It’s sad some people are this fundamentalist around gun control.

That is quite some distance

Terrible terrible event

Substabtially less killed in Vegas than in Nice with a rented truck

Numbers killed believed to be over 50 now.

Jambalaya your missing the 15,000 killed already this year.
Would you call this a terrorist incident?

“Sheriff Joe Lombardo says 50 people died in the attack and at least 200 have been injured.”

apparently some 64 year old local guy.

Been at Mandalay Bay decently, and despite the odd episode in Vegas you certainly don’t feel particular at risk walking around that sort of place.

Substabtially less killed in Vegas than in Nice with a rented truck

Well that makes it ok then.

Fewer people died in your cruise liner capsize than when the Titanic went down? Hardly worth mentioning.

Fewer people died in your light aircraft crash than the twin towers? We wont even bother informing the next of kin.

**** your whataboutery jamby and your initial sentence to ‘prove’ that you’re thinking of the victims.

Substabtially less killed in Vegas than in Nice with a rented truck

wtf? what a unit this boy is.

jambalaya – Member

Substabtially less killed in Vegas than in Nice with a rented truck What’s that got to do with it? Stop your trolling.

The gunman was identified by law enforcement officials as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, a resident of Mesquite, Nevada.

This picture is pretty bizarre…

Cops taking cover. Guys on their phones standing around.

That is quite some distance

Yup, which goes some way to explaining why the death toll was initially looking low.

Substabtially less killed in Vegas than in Nice with a rented truck

FFS!

Other than being a member of your countries armed forces and being on a front line, I can’t think of a single legitimate reason why you should be in possession of an automatic assault rifle.

The fact that you can walk in off the street and buy one (or lots) with as much ammo as you can carry is absolutely insane. They can quote the constitution all they like, it doesn’t make it any less bonkers.

‘jambalaya – Member

Substabtially less killed in Vegas than in Nice with a rented truck’.

WTAF. You’re effing sick…! :-O

Drac – Moderator
That is quite some distance
Yup, which goes some way to explaining why the death toll was initially looking low.

There’s some audio of the actual sound of the bullets getting fired, boy in here played it, I don’t have the link. the amount of bullets and the speed of them sounded wild.

50 dead and 200 injured

Suspect named as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock

bennyboy1 – Member
‘jambalaya – Member

Substabtially less killed in Vegas than in Nice with a rented truck’.

WTAF. You’re effing sick…! :-O

don’t bite.

Other than being a member of your countries armed forces and being on a front line, I can’t think of a single legitimate reason why you should be in possession of an automatic assault rifle.

Yep. I’d include specialist armed police units in that as ‘armed forces’, but ultimately, yes.

FWIW, I’m pro gun ownership, along the lines of UK legislation, but the US attitude to guns disgusts me.

I’m in the US today, and just woken up to this news. Knowing that I’m going to be interacting with people who think owning an AR15 is some kind of ‘human right’ is going to be harder than usual today.

There’s some audio of the actual sound of the bullets getting fired, boy in here played it, I don’t have the link. the amount of bullets and the speed of them sounded wild.

Yeah I’ve seen some of it, sounds classic open up and shoot at anything.

Awful stuff.

jambalaya – Member

Substantially less killed in Vegas than in Nice with a rented truck

No one asked for a definition of a dick move.

the videos are really awful

This just goes to further divide the country and plays into Trump’s (tiny) hands of playing the right against the left.

There are ****tards on both sides, unfortunately. However, I believe the ****tard:not-****tard ratio within the alt-right is more in favour of the ****tards than within the alt-left.

Substabtially less killed in Vegas than in Nice with a rented truck

You are one twisted ****tard… FEWER, FFS!

You are one twisted ****… FEWER, FFS!

There are times when gallows humour just works.

From a quick internet search, I don’t believe any armed member of the public has ever intervened in such an incident. Kind of blows the NRA’s argument out of the water doesn’t it. Why don’t they argue for the right to wear body armour instead?

Can’t wait for Trump’s response, notice nothing yet. He’s still tucked upon bed.