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Might be time to talk about mental health.

One of the band members has torn up his Leopards Eating People's Faces Party membership card:

I don't think any hotel on the strip would've stopped this dude.

He probably hadn't broken any laws until he broke the window in the hotel room...

im sure most of those rifles could be disassembled to some extent, the hotel isnt going to be searching peoples' bags and ****

not to mention they'd all be legal for him to possess in nevada anyway

What were they supposed to do about it?

I'm fairly sure you can't open carry in Casinos. Not that it is necessarily against the law, but against Casino policies. I'd guess their hotel security would have issues with him had it only been a pistol and they spotted it.

Exactly. How are they supposed to stop him?

Yeah about that notion that a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. If the bad guy plans ahead the good guy's guns can be rendered useless by a) position (behind cover 1500' away, 32 stories up) or b) fear of being shot by cops (which happened in Dallas when all the open-carry guys immediately dropped their guns and ran away out of fear of getting shot by cops). Usually b.

Seems like a perfect set of circumstances have to happen for a regular citizen to stop or mitigate a mass shooting. Has to be a) no cops around yet, b) more or less stationary shooter approachable from some angle or reloading, c) regular citizen who has the nerve to risk their life in the moment and take a shot at a heavily armed assailant when it's rarely clear there's only one. Obviously ex-police or military is a different story.

Casinos aren't on the federally banned list so they could ask him to leave, but that's about it. If he refuses, they can have him arrested for trespassing.

i never once mentioned anything about open carrying bro, pretty sure all casinos have rules of some sort against that for obvious reasons

I seriously wonder how the NRA people sleep at night. What scum.

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I didn't mean to thrust the open carry part of what I said to the forefront. I was merely trying to point out that (I'm going to take a wild guess) hotel and casino security would intervene if they spot guns for the safety of their clientele.

I love the people who cite Chicago gun laws as some kind of show stopping response to any argument in favor of control. It's like the very concept of a multi-variable problem has never even occurred to them.

And of course the best evidence for this is that there have been literally hundreds of these kinds of shootings in the past decade and there have been...zero "good guys with a gun"?

Yes, it's not.

But I didn't think they would eat my face!

A guy with a gun on the ground at the concert would have zero impact on the outcome in Las Vegas. These are called soft targets for a reason. He had the high ground, the advantage of surprise, and relative concealment. By the time anyone found out where it was coming from, it was over. And to be honest, I'm surprised more were not killed. I'd like to see a timeline of events after the first shot was fired. Did he run out of ammo? He killed himself before LE gained entry into his room.

What?! I can think of nothing more effective than a couple thousand country music fans taking aim at a hotel 400 yards away with handguns.

So I think here's a good time to point out that I used to own two firearms, a .38 caliber S&W handgun and a .22 Survival rifle. I was a prosecutor who prosecuted violent felons and murderers and have recieved in my career more than one death threat. But the second I found out my wife was pregnant (and while still working in law enforcement) I promptly got rid of all guns, and I am more than confident that was a +EV decision. I'm sorry but people who are keeping guns for "self-defense" are committing a logical fallacy when evaluating the chances of those guns helping them and their family versus the much much higher chances of those guns hurting them and their family. They are the same tards who think the roulette history wheel can help them, or who think they're going to hit their flush this time because they're "due."

18+ weapons, explosives, and thousands of rounds in his room.

If they're properly and responsibly stored, how do they hurt the family?

i say that trump does something that obama could not do and that is put his foot up the nra's ass. letsas watch for further devolpments