"It is time to put your constituents before the National Rifle Association. Reject currently pending legislation that would gut regulations on gun silencers and armor piercing bullets, block the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, and take immediate action to ban weapons of war, including assault weapons and large capacity magazines, which have no place in the hands of private citizens.”
Interesting trivia to me - The shooter was found relatively quickly because the smoke from his extremely rapid rate of fire set off his room's fire alarm.
Interesting trivia to me - The shooter was found relatively quickly because the smoke from his extremely rapid rate of fire set off his room's fire alarm.
Could have happened, but then again with this strange media we have, they could have made it up.
Early this a.m. I heard one of them speculate that it could have been the smoke setting off fire alarms. A couple hours later others were saying that the smoke had set off the fire alarms and alerted police.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
... The SWAT team used the alarm triggered by the smoke to zero in on Paddock's position in about 20 minutes — not nearly enough time for a floor-by-floor search of the hotel, which has 3,309 rooms and a 135,000-square-foot casino....
20 minutes is still a long time, I thought that I'd heard less.
... The SWAT team used the alarm triggered by the smoke to zero in on Paddock's position in about 20 minutes — not nearly enough time for a floor-by-floor search of the hotel, which has 3,309 rooms and a 135,000-square-foot casino....
20 minutes is still a long time, I thought that I'd heard less.
I can't imagine why someone on the ground couldn't have counted floors to the broken out window sooner.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
I always find it more disturbing when they say a shooter's firearms "were all purchased legally" than if he had stolen them or bought them black market. But in this case, it brings up an interesting question. The guy had 40 guns, all "legal" but nobody - family, friends, gun shop people - found that peculiar in the least? So let's say that for all intents and purposes, he was just another "good guy with a (big collection of) gun." Just exactly the type of guy the NRA buys Congressmen to protect. It would appear, with the evidence available today, that there is no way to tell the difference in a "good guy with a gun" and a potential mass shooter. Well, unless the guy with the gun is Black, Muslim, Mexican - then he's a bad guy. If he's wearing camo with an NRA patch - then he's a good guy. I think I've got it.
and hardly surprising that their own attorney is a convicted murderer who was able to get his conviction, for shooting his girlfriend, overturned on a technicality.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
and hardly surprising that their own attorney is a convicted murderer who was able to get his conviction, for shooting his girlfriend, overturned on a technicality.
and hardly surprising that their own attorney is a convicted murderer who was able to get his conviction, for shooting his girlfriend, overturned on a technicality.
Whose own attorney?
The nra
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
The NRA likes to remind us that "the best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a crowd of good guys with guns." If only everyone in that country music audience had had a machine-gun, too, they could have taken aim at that 32nd-floor window a couple blocks away - and lit up the entire hotel.
Predictably, the NRA's mothpieces are saying "now is an inappropriate time to talk about gun control." That's fine, if they'll also tell us when it is appropriate and when they'll be ready to discuss it.
Predictably, the NRA's mothpieces are saying "now is an inappropriate time to talk about gun control." That's fine, if they'll also tell us when it is appropriate and when they'll be ready to discuss it.
