LAS VEGAS (AP) — The gunman who sprayed more than 1,000 bullets into a Las Vegas country music concert also took shots at jet fuel tanks and targeted police officers responding to the scene, investigators said Friday in portraying a killer who seemed determined to inflict even more carnage than the 58 people he murdered.
Why is jet fuel being stored at a casino hotel? If this for emergency backup generator turbines?
I think the hotel was very close to the airport. I read concert goers scaler the fence to the airport to escape and the airport police mistook them for terrorists.
As long as guns are easy to get and easy to convert to something that can shoot 9 rounds a second, we’re at risk for suicidal loonies with a grudge against the world deciding to take out as many as he can.
Mass shooters learn from each other. Expect another shooter try to do the same thing, shoot a huge crowd with machine guns. It’s worth remembering that in the 13 minutes it took the Las Vegas police to get to the killer, he had time to shoot over 7,000 bullets.
Why is it important to know his motives? Will that change the outcome? Or do we just want someone/something to blame?
You are surprised that people want to know why the worst mass shooting in U.S. history happened?
It has been reported that he tried to buy a large quantity of tracer rounds, but the supplier was out.
Depending on when this was it might be that he was hoping to set these fuel tanks on fire (it would require him to have already selected this particular target and firing location, he had previously scouted others).
It wouldn’t have worked. Jet fuel is kerosene and not highly volatile. Small caliber tracer rounds (he was shooting .223/5.56 mm weapons) would not have done it, not even if he had hit the ullage .
Igniting the fuel tanks was part of his escape plan.
That would have drawn attention away from the hotel.
Then he could sneak down the stairs and get away.
Not the best plan, but it satisfied his needs.
Then the security guard came by and ruined the escape plan.
His main plan was to kill as many people as he could.
What else can you do with a large collection like he had.
His collection was not historical or diverse.
It was just good for killing.
And those people below looked like zombies to him.
Did the autopsy find jizz in his pants?
exactly. jet fuel doesn’t burn readily unless it’s been vaporized as in a plane crash