We can't go 25 posts without people making this political.

What an awful situation for anyone involved!

Fine. Other than checking whether people are okay, is there anything that's time-sensitive? Can we wait a month - or even a week - before calling for banning guns or rushing out to buy guns or digging into his life as a gambler or calling for banning white men from entering the country or whatever axes people have to grind?

Go out and donate blood if you're concerned but don't know where to start. And we'll ban guns, or mandate everyone carries a gun, or gawk at surveillance video of the shooter ... some other ****ing time.

The most time-sensitive matter is that there the carnage is over.

There is a lot of interest in him, obviously. And this is highly unusual. Outlier of an outlier. Something like 4 standard deviations above the age of the usual mass-murderer. Pilot, high-stakes gambler, real-estate investor. Plus, this happening on the 32nd floor of a place the entire world knows (vs. the Pulse Nightclub for example) where we have the false sense of security that most of us will never be.

We have no idea why he did it (as of now) so it is natural to try to figure it out. And we as poker players/gamblers may perhaps have a little more insight. At least interest.

Such a tragedy

To be clear, I'm just as interested as anyone. But the frenzy of attention is not only not helpful, but actually detrimental to the investigation.

ISIS claimed responsibility, and in the wild, chaotic aftermath, their claim was given full validity and repeated by news outlets.

Democrats and Republicans are lining up to score screen time because you can't spell tragedy without rage. We're taking away your guns! They're taking our guns! Yeeeeeaaaargh!!!

I bet there's at least a few people in the ICU right now fighting for their lives. The death toll will creep up over the next few days as people recover or don't.

Sure, there's no more active shooting, but we really don't need Internet Detectives harassing Facebook friends or family, or clogging up the "airwaves" with random - and often poorly-vetted - revelations.

Prayers ITT too...

A surprisingly high number

Who here is investigating? I also think we have more insight than most people when it comes to something gambling related than the average people.

If someone has real information, of course they should go to the police.

I think the casino(s) have a ton of information on this guy. Reams.

^^this^^

Stop for a second and consider what we actually know as fact:
Facts:
Shots were fired into the concert crowd from Mandalay bay (video of muzzle flashes and other evidence)
The police broke down a door and found Stephen Paddock dead in a room with multiple firearms and two shot out windows.
As of right now these are all the facts we have.

As of right now:
There is no forensic evidence that any of the weapons found are the murder weapon(s)
There is no eye witness evidence that Paddock did the shooting
There is no forensic evidence (GSR, Window glass splinters) that Paddock did the shooting.
Paddock left no note or manifesto
All conventional wisdom marks Paddock as a outlier mass murderer / spree killer (statistically speaking)

All of this may come and I'm not suggesting he didn't do it but we should really wait for the facts to come in.

I am suggesting you are either trolling or really dense.

HOW do you claim such certainty that "there is no ....evidence that ...", etc. Just because no one has shown YOU what has been found ?

I'm as skeptical as anyone, but I think LMPD last night was really measured in their public utterances.

"we should really wait ....."

wtf, ...... wait for what ? There is a need for action now, to help the victims, or do you not think there were enough of them to help? If you are in Las Vegas, and healthy, donate blood. If you are not here, donate money.

otoh, what precisely do you think YOU are going to do"later" that matters and hinges on some as yet unrevealed "facts.... coming in" ?

Exactly. This could be a classic movie plot, where a CIA-spook type sets up Paddock to be a patsy, except this spook saw Jack Reacher and made sure to cap Paddock before he escaped.

Phonebooth. Kiefer Sutherland.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7978821.html

And multiple reports that gunfire was coming from 5th floor too.

I don't know really. And who said this guy was a $100 video poker slots player?

All odd.

His brother said he played $100/hand. If there was gunfire coming from the 5th floor, there would presumably be a broken window or other place where those shots could be fired from.

Except that movie was pretty awful compared to Jack Reacher.

Is this some type of condescending remark?
Are Mods working for free (volunteers) on this site?
Volunteer in a more noble cause son.

You mean like a church?

Semi-auto to full auto:

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/oc...ce-to-speed-f/

How it works:

http://www.slidefire.com/videos

I am sure there is forensic evidence... powered on his hands. The police chief also stated he shot thru the door and hit a security guard in the leg at which point they pulled back and waited for swat. He also had a slip and fall lawsuit against a casino.

You would know condescending Shawny.

Was the shooter a poker player? He seems really familiar looking to me, specifically from playing Excalibur 1/2 NL tables in the last few years.

If not then my apologies, but I'm sure I've seen him there as a reg

Your suspicions assume a great deal and it misses the one major element, motive.


The timing of his wife being outside the country.

The number of guns found at home home, presumably by more than one officer when they went to his home.

Interviews by gun dealers who stated they remembered him buying a weapon.

The large number of weapons he brought to the room.

Again, most important which I repeat. MOTIVE. For what reason would someone try to randomly kill innocent people and place the blame on this guy?

Furthermore, with all the weapons and ammo in the hotel room, and the time he was there (three days, him coming and going from the room), it would be a poorly designed frame job. He would easily be cleared if hotel videos don't show him bringing multiple bags into his room.

If they did clear him, we would have to see video of some other person bringing all of these weapons into his room. With so many working this case and having already watched the video of him in the hotel hallways the last three days, there would already have been another "person of interest" alert being put out to be public.

All of these facts and many other could be raised to debunk your theory, but another major problem would be that this would require that not one person in this investigation; probably in the hundreds from different police forces; would dare leak their suspicions or suggestion of odd evidence or lack of evidence.

If you've ever cooked something in the oven for a long time you will know that a little tinfoil lining the tray is important, too much tinfoil and you are not doing any good.

As I said in my first post ITT, bumpfire, not real full auto. A real M16 fires even faster and would be easier to control and aim. Thankfully he didn't have one or it could have been worse.

Article on increased Strip security:
http://in.reuters.com/article/usa-la...-idINKCN1C80AU

Steve Wynn seems way ahead of the curve according to that article.