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My policy as well. But what's to prevent hotel staff entering your room anyway? | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
I meant it as tongue and cheek - just poking fun of some of the conspiracy theories. Also, I admit to robbing the theme from Jack Reacher....so I can't even claim my own ridiculous conspiracy.  | |||
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| Ignored facts still exist |
Not to minimize the impact of this awful event, but this last weekend, over 3 times as many people perished in car accidents in the USA, as perished in this shooting. My point is that this type of event is, luckily, very rare, and there are other threats to life that are much more common, and to some extent more preventable if people would put emphasis into such prevention. In conversations with others, it seems like the popular thing now is to "see what can be done" about crazy snipers by means of laws/policy, or things like "see something, say something" etc. In reality, anything that can be done to make your drive safer is likely a better bet in terms of saving your life. . | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Yes but...  ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Listening to FoxNews just now, it's apparent that the police know nothing new. Host is talking about how the guy wore sweats and flip flops a lot. They're talking about his slip-and-fall accident.  Mark my word- they have found out everything they're going to find out about this guy. | |||
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I wish I had predicted this earlier, I've felt the same way almost from the beginning. As others have noted, evil doesn't need an excuse to exist. Lover of the US Constitution Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
My feeling is the slip-and-fall issue is the reason behind his actions. A person of reasonable intelligence with a lot money loses a simple case he has convinced himself the other party was responsible for and wanted to cost the hotel as much revenue as possible. The hotel will probably never rent out that room again. There's loss of revenue. The potential, and likely, lawsuits against the hotel - more revenue lost. Next year for the festival - who's paying for security and will the hotel rent out any of the rooms on that side of the building? More lost revenue. Again, just my opinion, the guy wanted to cost Mandalay Bay as much money as possible. No other motive and possibly not even a death wish. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Coin Sniper |
The media will not rest until they can provide some "closure on this to an injured nation" Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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Normality Contraindicated |
Can't tell if you're making a joke here, but the slip 'n fall lawsuit was against the Cosmopolitan Hotel, not the Mandalay Bay Hotel. ------------------------------------------------------ Though we choose between reality and madness It's either sadness or euphoria | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
Check your facts, please. Wrong hotel. No reason will ever be found, because there was no reason. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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Irksome Whirling Dervish |
I just have to say that you're really stretching. There's zero evidence that your scenario is true, makes sense or is even remotely true. In our quest to explain what might turn out to be unexplainable in terms of pure cause and effect, people start to make up stuff to give them comfort and undertanding of things so they can compartmentalize and address them. It's OK for this to be nothing but the actions of a closet evil mad man and that may be all the answers any of us get. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
People will continue to make guesses and will continue to be wrong. There's only one person who knows why this guy did what he did, and he's dead. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
It's only really mattered to me to know whether or not he was (or was influenced by) an Islamic terrorist (and thus we were attacked by outside forces by proxy), or he was a domestic terrorist with some particular political bent (and thus it would have been more evidence of growing domestic political divisions, etc), or he was just a murderous weirdo of any other variety, and the latter seems more true each day despite my earlier thinking. Crazy and wrong in all three cases. Fewer broad implications in the latter/now likely case. | |||
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ammoholic |
It happened. Families are grieving, dealing with terrible life altering injuries, healing with minor injuries, and some (un)lucky ones trying to handle the psychological damage. Evil just is. There are enough ER Docs, Medics, LEOs, & Nurses here that see the same. Shootings, Knifings, beatings - its pure asocial violence, no reason, just because. See it enough, you harden into a cynic. There is no nuanced "why". Same through history, both big events (Inquisition/Crusades/Slave trade/Holocaust), and everyday violence. You can't control it. Many need to find an answer, otherwise they can't prepare or handle the violence when it happens. | |||
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| bigger government = smaller citizen  |
I just heard on the radio over lunch that a relative of one of the deceased is "considering suing the country music venue..." But they didn't say why or anything. What the fuck could the venue possibly be at fault for? “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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| Ignored facts still exist |
Ambulance chaser lawyers. Next they will go after bullet makers, and even those who supplied the hammer that broke the hotel windows. . | |||
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Festina Lente |
Sean Spicier @sean_spicier The inability to find a motive sounds strange until you remember they can’t even find a motive when the attacker’s yelling Allahu Akbar 8:19 PM - Oct 6, 2017 NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
Thanks for muddying the waters even further, Sean, by implying that there's a coverup. That's what he just did- he implied that there's a coverup. | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
The good news is government sucks at covering up issues they don't want to have see the light of day. So if there was, we'll hear of it one day. But I'm with Para. The is nothing to cover up because the simple answer theorem applies. That theorem says the simplest answer is usually the correct one. In this case Massmurderertwatwaffle just wanted to kill people. Like every serial killer, when you strip away the bullahit you find a person with an overwhelming desire to murder. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Alienator |
People will not let it die, will they? I pop in every once in a while it's mind boggling. I've seen all the random facebook conspiracy posts already. There were up to 7 shooters, blah, blah, blah. Use common sense. SIG556 Classic P220 Carry SAS Gen 2 SAO SP2022 9mm German Triple Serial P938 SAS P365 FDE P322 FDE Psalm 118:24 "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" | |||
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