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A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:
I was supposed to drive someone from Irwin to the airport in Vegas tomorrow, but I'm guessing that's not going to happen now. Jesus christ that was a lot of shots.

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Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
Used to be lots of shots in Vegas was a relatively fun and desirable goal...

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 27, 2008

The casualty count just leaped from 2 dead, 24 injured to 20 dead, 100 injured. :stare:

Apparently the shooter was a Las Vegas local; police are searching for his "companion." Dunno if that means a person who may be an accomplice or another victim.

Victor Vermis
Dec 21, 2004


WOKE UP IN THE DESERT AGAIN

suboptimal posted:

The casualty count just leaped from 2 dead, 24 injured to 20 dead, 100 injured. :stare:

Apparently the shooter was a Las Vegas local; police are searching for his "companion." Dunno if that means a person who may be an accomplice or another victim.

I believe they said "Roommate".

The name they gave matches a Facebook profile of a woman fitting the description; casino employee, Mandalay Bay on her "likes".

Looks like a normal American Pacific-Asian grandma.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
20 dead and over 100 injured is a lot of loving injured and dead.

Jesus.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

Victor Vermis posted:

I believe they said "Roommate".

The name they gave matches a Facebook profile of a woman fitting the description; casino employee, Mandalay Bay on her "likes".

Looks like a normal American Pacific-Asian grandma.

Yeah and now a name of a dude and a profile is being swung around. It's gonna be interesting twitter storm.

Some really solid first responder work.

Gobbeldygook
May 13, 2009
Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

Wasabi the J posted:

Active shooter at Mandalay Bay. My team's ok but holy poo poo.

https://twitter.com/davidsakach/status/914730995147870208

This is not a joke. I'm a Vegas goon. Over 20 people probably dead.
Imagine how many people he would have killed if he hadn't consistently taken 20-30 seconds to reload :stare:

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Several of my two-step addicted friends from Flag and Phoenix went there, holy poo poo

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
Feel kind of lovely that I woke up, heard about Vegas and my first thought was "it's been a while."

E: which says something about either me or America because didn't a guy shoot up a church like a week ago?

boop the snoot fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Oct 2, 2017

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006

I HAVE A MICROPENIS AND I WON'T REST UNTIL YOUR CHILDREN DIE FOR IT
Fun Shoe
Jesus gently caress. gently caress those loving garbage waste of oxygen pieces of poo poo. loving dome them 17 times so there's nothing left but mush.

I know this isn't a controversial opinion but some of my GF's friends were there. And I'm pissed.

Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Oct 2, 2017

Gobbeldygook
May 13, 2009
Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

NUKES CURE NORKS posted:

Feel kind of lovely that I woke up, heard about Vegas and my first thought was "it's been a while."

E: which says something about either me or America because didn't a guy shoot up a church like a week ago?
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

There is a mass shooting - 4 or more people being shot in one incident - on average once a day in America. It's just so common that it usually only makes the local news.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Wasabi the J posted:

Dan on his IG Story.

I want to clear the air and say I'm very proud of my community in this time, I'm seeing so many people trying to help, including reuniting kids and their parents via Facebook. Metro is doing a great job trying to get a handle on this and people are still feeling pretty safe around here.

Not trying to be a dick here, but isn't Dan Bilzerian the wifebeating SEAL-washout poker millionaire attention whore that sued the producer of that Mark Wahlberg SEAL movie because he didn't get enough airtime?

I'm honestly not really surprised that people would think it's anything other than more attention-whoring from him. I'd be all for any off-duty special forces dude doing anything they can to help or stop the threat, but I'm assuming they'd have other priorities than updating their Instagram story to assure their fans they're grabbing their gun to get the shooter.


Glad to hear your dudes are safe, though.
Relatedly, what "team" of yours is this? I have trouble remembering what everyone in GiP does and can barely distinguish between mildudes and LEOs.

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
No way that a civilian w a gun looking to help could go wrong. "Only a good guy with a gun" :jerkbag:

Yea Dan B is a huge douche. His celebrity is based around social media likes from people who wish they could be huge bros so of course he's gonna live stream it. People are already calling him a hero.

Paradise Lost
Feb 11, 2003

kill your enemy, drink his wine, and take his women
Fox is now reporting 50+ dead

:stare:

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
LVMPD twitter reporting at least 50 dead and over 200 injured.


gently caress.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Well, there goes the deadliest-shooting-in-history record again...from only last year :catstare:


Jesus loving Christ

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Well, there goes the deadliest-shooting-in-history record again...from only last year :catstare.


Jesus loving Christ

Deadliest *American* shooting; Breivik still holds the all-time record with 69 killed by gunfire. For now, at least.

bloops
Dec 30, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
Not a headline I wanted to read this morning. I know that area pretty well. Las Vegas was a second home to me and my family. We had a house out there for numerous years.

AkrisD
Sep 2, 2004
olololol '04 newb hurrrrrrr
Jesus gently caress...usually I have little, to no response for terror attacks other than "That sucks." This one really bugs me for some reason though.

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

AkrisD posted:

Jesus gently caress...usually I have little, to no response for terror attacks other than "That sucks." This one really bugs me for some reason though.

Dude opened fire on a crowd of people having fun, that's going to piss off everyone that isn't a nutter.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Welp, been nice knowing you Puerto Rico. Now your news stories are going to be beneath the fold and Donnie Dumbfuck can safely ignore you.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Man, there is an absolute ton of garbage information on social media, it's hard to tell the malicious garbage from the regular garbage.

psydude
Mar 31, 2008

Also that he was able to kill so many from so far away. Did he have a 240 or something? From the videos it sounds like something bigger than 5.56.

psydude fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Oct 2, 2017

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

psydude posted:

Also that he was able to kill so many from so far away. Did he have a 240 or something?

He was killed on the 32nd floor, so he had a decent elevation and a packed crowd to aim at. Fairly hard to miss at that point the utter bastard.

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006

I HAVE A MICROPENIS AND I WON'T REST UNTIL YOUR CHILDREN DIE FOR IT
Fun Shoe
Sounded like an AK to me

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
Festival was approx 40k people. Look at the videos and photos of how dense the crowds are, everyone just huddle together ducking down. Combined with the confusion, no surprise we saw the estimated body count jump from twenty to fifty so sudden

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

FastestGunAlive posted:

Festival was approx 40k people. Look at the videos and photos of how dense the crowds are, everyone just huddle together ducking down. Combined with the confusion, no surprise we saw the estimated body count jump from twenty to fifty so sudden

I'd be surprised if none of them were just trampled and not even shot.

That Works
Jul 21, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Bored As gently caress posted:

Sounded like an AK to me

I was wondering. Did not sound like 5.56 but I am not a good judge.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!



:stare:

gently caress.

EDIT: The dude at :50 who's running with his beer. loving DROP IT AND RUN, MORON.


Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Oct 2, 2017

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Handsome Ralph posted:

:stare:

gently caress.

That's actual automatic weapon fire.

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

Handsome Ralph posted:

:stare:

gently caress.

EDIT: The dude at :50 who's running with his beer. loving DROP IT AND RUN, MORON.

That's a hell of a lot of rounds to let loose in one go, I believe I counted > 40 if my hearing isn't totally broken.

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/914822640849833984

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

MazelTovCocktail posted:

That's actual automatic weapon fire.

Sounds like a AK, or RPD variant.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


MazelTovCocktail posted:

That's actual automatic weapon fire.


Oh I know, as soon as I heard the shots my brain went "well that's not a modded rifle."


Trying to guess what it might be based on the sound. RPK maybe? As others said, didn't sound like a 5.56.

bloops
Dec 30, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
Assuming that this weapon was legally purchased, you need ATF approval to buy something fully automatic like that yea?

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
It's just weird because every time someone says it's automatic weapons it always turns out to not be. It's just odd for it to seem to be real.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Yeah, and an extremely expensive tax stamp IIRC. Gun club I used to shoot at owned a .50 M2 that was purchased through member donations (the stamp was more expensive than the gun) and shot it off once a month or so.

bloops
Dec 30, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
MSNBC just gave a name to the shooter. Stephen Paddock. 64 years old. Hope you enjoyed getting shot to death by SWAT, geezer.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug
Pillbug

MazelTovCocktail posted:

It's just weird because every time someone says it's automatic weapons it always turns out to not be. It's just odd for it to seem to be real.

That rapid fire, either he's really good at bump shooting or it was full auto.

quote:

As he sprinted from the chaos to try to find a safe place, he declared: "Holy f***, this girl just got shot in the f****** head."

He also admitted that he regretted not being armed during the shooting.

"Stupid a** me didn't bring a gun," he complained.

:smith: Country Music Fans, jesus...

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Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
[quote="“Handsome Ralph”" post="“476972484”"]
Yeah, and an extremely expensive tax stamp IIRC. Gun club I used to shoot at owned a .50 M2 that was purchased through member donations (the stamp was more expensive than the gun) and shot it off once a month or so.
[/quote]

Stamp is the same $200 for all NFA stuff except some AOWs.

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