Round-Up of Posts on Shooting

Since things tend to get buried on Facebook, here is a round-up of what you need to know.

RINO Gov. Sandoval wants “guidance” on implementing the private gun sale ban, Question 1. Basically he asked Attorney General Adam Laxalt (also an assumed Republican candidate for governor) to review his decision that found Question 1 as un-implantable. Sandoval wants the FBI to change its mind and process Nevada’s private background checks, which they refused to do because Nevada isn’t paying the FBI to do it. If Trump goes soft on gun control, expect the FBI to change its mind.

All indications show that the killer bought his guns through dealers and not privately. Sandoval has always read the political winds and is no friend of gun owners, but only willing to do what is politically expedient. As a moral coward, when he feels the hot wind of liberal and media scorn (like all moderate Republicans), he looks to cave on something important to appear he’s sensitive and doing something.  

Give Gov. Sandoval a piece of your mind at his contact page here, and email the Attorney General at: mailto:aginfo@ag.nv.gov

Machine Gun Vegas posted a press release throwing the Second Amendment against the bus, deleted the press releases from their website when it began to circulate, but gave this story to the UK press which is totally hypocritical of them. If the rest of us must sacrifice our gun rights, why should they allow to operate a machine gun tourist range?

A Mandalay Bay security guard approached the room and may have spooked the shooting into killing himself or at least ended the attack.

Conspiracy Theory?

No, probably just one deranged dude. Maybe with a little help, but this was not government “false flag,” just a crazed leftist, driven to violence by the rhetoric in the media and online.

Author and former Navy SEAL Matt Bracken wrote in his novel Enemies Foreign and Domestic of a similar attack at a sports stadium with a sniper “lobbing” rounds into the crowd creating just as many awful casualties. In his book, at the time, it was unthinkable that any one individual would do something like this, so he had to blame it on a conspiracy by an out-of-control government, thus spurring on the plot. If a writer can come up with this idea, or many other of the nightmare scenarios in Hollywood blockbusters, why can’t a smart man think it up on his own?

As far as other shooters, where are the bodies at other locations? No “I was there” reports, no video, no photos of additional crime scenes, just wild innuendo based on scanner traffic, itself based on panicked crowd reactions.

Shooter on the 4^th floor? Nope, strobe light in a room, filmed earlier in the night. Also, if they haven’t replaced the glass in time for the President’s visit, how/why did they replace the 4^th floor glass? Magic glass? Anyone have proof lower-floor windows in the hotel actually open enough for a rifle to poke out?

Secondary Motive, Harming the Second Amendment

In this article, we discuss a bit about conspiracy theory and motives. Short version is he was likely a dedicated leftist who wanted political violence. A very probable secondary motive was to utterly devastate the Second Amendment and quite probably Nevada’s good gun laws. Our state is very vulnerable right now, with a weak-willed governor and a Democrat controlled legislature, not to mention a very Democratic leaning voter demographic. Passing more gun control is giving this guy what he wants.

Open Carry and the Shooting

Millions of people upon learning that Nevada is an open carry state probably assumed that the killer carried his rifles through the casino floor and up to his room slung over his shoulder. Being America or out west (depending on where the person is), this seems totally normal. Casino and hotel guests probably just shrugged off the guy with twenty-odd rifles in the elevator as normal. Not so. Open carry is not to blame.

The shooter carried the guns up to his suite in several suitcases. Casino security will ask anyone they know is carrying to leave or disarm and store their weapon. Walking through a casino with a rifle on your shoulder, on the Strip, or in any heavily trafficked area in Las Vegas will cause alarm and a police response. No one legitimately carries a rifle in public here, despite what hysteria and anti-gun memes try to say.

In the past two days, many open carriers have said that others remarked to them that the sight of a holstered pistol made them feel safer for being around. Imagine that. Open carriers making unarmed folks feel safe instead of afraid. That is not something that these editorial writers and so-called journalists quoting our website for filler material will report. Not in this case, but in many others, one armed and brave citizen can and has stopped mass shootings.

Security Screening?

Metal detectors and baggage checks at casinos won’t last. It’s too expensive, too troublesome, and ultimately ineffective. Shooters will attack the security lines instead. It is what happened in the Brussels airport attack. Go for the soft targets outside the security areas. What we are witnessing is reactionary security theater and is unlikely to stop anything. If casinos put up metal detectors and backscatter devices, terrorists will just hit the dense crowds on the Strip.

Right now there is a psychological and public relations need for security theater. Guests won’t stand being treated like criminals when they come to lose money. Guns in the hotel room will be an issue when SHOT Show comes to town and DEFCON attendees want to hit the range. On top of that, the Strip isn’t a safe place. Concealed carriers do not deserve to be rendered helpless because some executard is more worried about liability and appearances than keeping guests from being robbed and raped in the parking garage.