Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

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Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by Agnes » Tue Oct 03, 2017 2:37 am

http://abcnews.go.com/US/50-dead-400-in ... =50223240
More than 50 people were killed and "well over" 400 were injured in Las Vegas on Sunday night when a lone gunman opened fire on a music festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. It was the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.

The "nonstop gunfire," according to one witness, sent more than 22,000 country music fans scrambling for their lives. Police say the suspect had at least 10 rifles when he was found dead in a Mandalay Bay hotel room.

Terrified bystanders ducked, ran, then sprang into action -- frantically caring for the wounded. As ambulances rushed to the scene, concert-goers made makeshift stretchers out of police barricades. They plugged wounds with their bare hands and used their clothing to try to stanch eachother's bleeding. At least one man described a stranger dying in his arms.

An off-duty Las Vegas police officer who was attending the concert was among the dead, police said
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Re: Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by Black Orchid » Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:34 pm

TV NETWORK CBS has sacked a legal executive who said she was “not even sympathetic” to the victims of the worst mass shooting in US history because they were probably “Republican gun toters”.

Hayley Geftman-Gold made the comments in a now-deleted discussion thread on Facebook, first reported by The Daily Caller website.
On Sunday night, 64-year-old gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino in Las Vegas, killing at least 59 people at a crowded country music festival below.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at- ... 96b9edd8a7

What the Hell is wrong with people who use social media to politicise tragedies?! Disgusting.

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Re: Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by 762NATO » Tue Oct 03, 2017 2:37 pm

It will be interesting reading when they get to the bottom of this. The anti gun lobby is pissing blood before the smoke has cleared. My prediction, a left wing democrat cutting loose on a large defenceless group of predominantly conservative people. Have to wait and see I suppose

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Re: Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by Neferti » Tue Oct 03, 2017 6:03 pm

It appears that the USA has finally beaten Australia's record of the MOST KILLED by a single gunman!

America has been trying hard to beat our record ... never succeeded until now.

WELL DONE YANKS!!!

Gold Medal indeed!

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Re: Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by Black Orchid » Tue Oct 03, 2017 6:11 pm

Marilou Danley, the girlfriend they are searching for, is an Aussie :lol:

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Re: Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by cods » Tue Oct 03, 2017 6:46 pm

Black Orchid wrote:Marilou Danley, the girlfriend they are searching for, is an Aussie :lol:

I dont think so I think she did live here we will find out when they catch up with her.....she must have known he was a gun freak...
17 high powered rifles in that room plus more at home.......

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Re: Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by Black Orchid » Tue Oct 03, 2017 6:57 pm

She's an Australian citizen who lived on the Gold Coast. Formerly from the Philippines I think?

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Re: Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by J o h n S m i t h » Tue Oct 03, 2017 9:00 pm

Black Orchid wrote:Marilou Danley, the girlfriend they are searching for, is an Aussie :lol:

she wasn't a girlfriend she was a room mate.

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Re: Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by 762NATO » Tue Oct 03, 2017 9:30 pm

Possibly AR 15 s/auto with bump or slide fire stock... no machine gun

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Re: Breaking : 50 dead 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Post by J o h n S m i t h » Tue Oct 03, 2017 10:25 pm

J o h n S m i t h wrote:
Black Orchid wrote:Marilou Danley, the girlfriend they are searching for, is an Aussie :lol:

she wasn't a girlfriend she was a room mate.
I stand corrected. The news story I saw tonight said she was his girlfriend.

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