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2 minutes ago, AbeFroman said:

Wow, it was that guy.  I watched those and that team was great.

 

Pretty clear now that he didn't want anyone to be hurt, and if he had intended to kill large numbers of people he had the skills to have eclipsed that Jason Aldean shooter

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6 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Pretty clear now that he didn't want anyone to be hurt, and if he had intended to kill large numbers of people he had the skills to have eclipsed that Jason Aldean shooter

I never quite understood how that LV shooter missed Aldean.  He sure hit a crap ton of other people.

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Posted
1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

I never quite understood how that LV shooter missed Aldean.  He sure hit a crap ton of other people.

Maybe he tried, no way to know for sure and no way he could aim accurately. He just had a large, target rich area to aim at. A good friend of mine was there and still has crippling PTSD from seeing some girl's head get half taken off 5 feet away from him. Just a completely unreal situation.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:

Maybe he tried, no way to know for sure and no way he could aim accurately. 

Well, I disagree that there was no way to get off an "accurate" shot.  It was a 500 yard target.  Sniper distance, for sure, but maybe he didn't have that skill.  I honestly don't know if he had something in for Aldean or if it was just garden variety terroristic mayhem.  I don't recall any definitive reports.

Posted
2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, I disagree that there was no way to get off an "accurate" shot.  It was a 500 yard target.  Sniper distance, for sure, but maybe he didn't have that skill.  I honestly don't know if he had something in for Aldean or if it was just garden variety terroristic mayhem.  I don't recall any definitive reports.

He was an asshole who wanted fish in a barrel, and that's exactly what the hotel and concert venue allowed to happen.

Posted
22 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

He was an asshole who wanted fish in a barrel, and that's exactly what the hotel and concert venue allowed to happen.

Try that in a small town.

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Posted
37 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I never quite understood how that LV shooter missed Aldean.  He sure hit a crap ton of other people.

He should have tried that in a small town.

Posted
1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

As someone that was in the military, the "military member who is experiencing mental health issues but doesn't want to come forward to get help because they might get processed out" checks out, sadly

Babbling about anti-gravity technology is kind of a tip-off that something is up.

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What we have been seeing with "drones" is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft by most recently China in the east coast, but throughout history, the US. Only we and China have this capability. Our OPEN location for this activity in the box is below.

"China has been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up. As of now, it is just a show of force and they are using it similar to how they used the balloon for sigint and isr, which are also part of the integrated coms system. There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time.

"The so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned AC, they are the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the WH if they wanted. It's checkmate.

"USG needs to give the history of this, how we are employing it and weaponizing it, how China is employing them and what the way forward is. China is poised to attack anywhere in the east coast

 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Babbling about anti-gravity technology is kind of a tip-off that something is up.

 

maybe the cybertruck was just the only thing he could find on such short notice

Posted
41 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Tfw the long snapper never got set so it wasn't all 11 players getting subbed

a giant gaping vagina can't tell the difference

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You bail out 956? It never fails to surprise me watching the most self-assured clowns, stomping their feet and talking in very authoritative voice, just fucking falling right on the face time after time after time after time. 956 has mastered that act. He relies on the short attention span of many posters here, and a very deep subject matter expertise in one small niche that doesn’t translate broadly, to run out his craft. That’s why everything comes back to kremlin talking points for him. His world doesn’t get much deeper than that.  

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9 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

You bail out 956? It never fails to surprise me watching the most self-assured clowns, stomping their feet and talking in very authoritative voice, just fucking falling right on the face time after time after time after time. 956 has mastered that act. He relies on the short attention span of many posters here, and a very deep subject matter expertise in one small niche that doesn’t translate broadly, to run out his craft. That’s why everything comes back to kremlin talking points for him. The world doesn’t get much deeper than that for him.  

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Posted
47 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

LV shooting was a botched assassiation attempt

I hate Jason Aldean as much as the next person, but I doubt somebody cared enough about him to want to assassinate him.

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

You bail out 956? It never fails to surprise me watching the most self-assured clowns, stomping their feet and talking in very authoritative voice, just fucking falling right on the face time after time after time after time. 956 has mastered that act. He relies on the short attention span of many posters here, and a very deep subject matter expertise in one small niche that doesn’t translate broadly, to run out his craft. That’s why everything comes back to kremlin talking points for him. His world doesn’t get much deeper than that.  

Annie. Sweetie. Calm down child. Nobody is claiming Kremlin talking points about the LV trump tower bombing except you shitting in this punch bowl. Where tf are you coming from lol. Please quote your posts here if you're gonna go off the rails and thread shit.

Or you can just keep rhetorically "many people are saying" it until you believe it yourself. It's gotten you this far, after all.

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Posted
22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I hate Jason Aldean as much as the next person, but I doubt somebody cared enough about him to want to assassinate him.

Have you listened to a millisecond of his music?  I’d personally advocate for an army of Manchurian Candidate Cletuses that could be triggered with the first shitty twang he strums at a show. Then they tear him to shreds on stage, doing the music world a massive favor. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Phil: “So Joe, I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Albert Fish, but he was a contemporary of another famous Albert, perhaps you’ve heard of him, Albert Einstein.  This Albert Fish fellow inserted dozens of needles into his groin and pelvic region, and functioned at a high state of awareness, at least until the government forcibly removed them.”

Joe: “So you’re saying I should I insert needles into my pelvis if I want to operate at a higher state of awareness?”

Phil: “Joe, ask yourself why the government forcibly removed those needles from Albert Fish.”

Joe: “Interesting”

Albert Fish was a real jerk

Posted
3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Annie. Sweetie. Nobody is claiming Kremlin talking points about the LV trump tower bombing except you shitting in this punch bowl. Where tf are you coming from lol. Please quote your posts here if you're gonna go off the rails and thread shit.

Or you can just keep rhetorically "many people are saying" it until you believe it yourself. It's gotten you this far, after all.

it’s goldfished brain morons like you that 956’s propaganda works on  

 

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Posted
9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I hate Jason Aldean as much as the next person, but I doubt somebody cared enough about him to want to assassinate him.

Also, you have to be important to be assassinated.

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10 hours ago, Anastasis said:

it’s goldfished brain morons like you that 956’s propaganda works on  

 

Can you support this please? 956 has always come across genuinely to me, but I can certainly be goldfish brained at times. 

Posted
10 hours ago, Bill Brasky said:

Albert Fish was a real jerk

Well you have to give a little jerk to set the needle in the Fish.

Posted
15 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, I disagree that there was no way to get off an "accurate" shot.  It was a 500 yard target.  Sniper distance, for sure, but maybe he didn't have that skill.  I honestly don't know if he had something in for Aldean or if it was just garden variety terroristic mayhem.  I don't recall any definitive reports.

500 meters may or may not be "sniper distance."  Green fucking Marine recruits, many of whom have never held a weapon, much less fired one; qualify with open sights at 500 meters.  Dude's background was auditing/ accounting; so he didn't necessarily have the military training, but he damned sure had the equipment to easily pull off a 500 meter shot.

Re: targeting Aldean:  According to his girlfriend, Paddock repeatedly cased Las Vegas Village from different windows in their room when they stayed at the Mandalay Bay a month before the shooting.[16] Paddock also may have considered attacking other events. He had researched large-scale venues in cities such as Boston since at least May 2017[15] and had reserved a room overlooking the August 2017 Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, but did not use it.[17] From September 17, Paddock stayed at The Ogden in Downtown Las Vegas, which overlooked the open-air Life is Beautiful festival that ran from September 22 to 24.[16][8] Paddock's internet search terms from mid-September included "swat weapons", "ballistics chart 308", "SWAT Las Vegas", and "do police use explosives"

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47 minutes ago, Iceman said:

500 meters may or may not be "sniper distance."  Green fucking Marine recruits, many of whom have never held a weapon, much less fired one; qualify with open sights at 500 meters. 

By never fired a weapon, do you mean they spend several days learning how to use it and gradually increasing range to learn the fundamentals? Also, unless I’m misreading table 1 of MCO 3574.2M, those green marines could technically whiff every shot at 500 yards and still qualify. Regardless, I don’t care how anyone defines “sniper distance” … a 500 yard open sight hit under pressure is impressive and requires practice. 

Posted (edited)
2 minutes ago, B00M said:

By never fired a weapon, do you mean they spend several days learning how to use it and gradually increasing range to learn the fundamentals? Also, unless I’m misreading table 1 of MCO 3574.2M, those green marines could technically whiff every shot at 500 yards and still qualify. Regardless, I don’t care how anyone defines “sniper distance” … a 500 yard open sight hit under pressure is impressive and requires practice. 

Range week is...well...a week.

The bigger point is that knucklehead in Vegas was very capable of making a 500m shot with the equipment in his possession. It wouldn't appear he had a specific target in mind beyond the venue in general, especially with regard to Aldean.

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Posted
17 hours ago, Bill Brasky said:

Albert Fish was a real jerk

Sure, but the man was a master chef when it came to cooking little monkeys. He might have learned it from the Chinese but he really made it his own with fresh ingredients.

Posted
10 hours ago, Iceman said:

500 meters may or may not be "sniper distance."  Green fucking Marine recruits, many of whom have never held a weapon, much less fired one; qualify with open sights at 500 meters.  Dude's background was auditing/ accounting; so he didn't necessarily have the military training, but he damned sure had the equipment to easily pull off a 500 meter shot.

Re: targeting Aldean:  According to his girlfriend, Paddock repeatedly cased Las Vegas Village from different windows in their room when they stayed at the Mandalay Bay a month before the shooting.[16] Paddock also may have considered attacking other events. He had researched large-scale venues in cities such as Boston since at least May 2017[15] and had reserved a room overlooking the August 2017 Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, but did not use it.[17] From September 17, Paddock stayed at The Ogden in Downtown Las Vegas, which overlooked the open-air Life is Beautiful festival that ran from September 22 to 24.[16][8] Paddock's internet search terms from mid-September included "swat weapons", "ballistics chart 308", "SWAT Las Vegas", and "do police use explosives"

Sorry but you are wrong.  Marine recruits ain't gonna hit 500 meters with an iron sight.  99 percent of the world isn't hitting 500 meters with a scope.  My .308 is sighted to 500 yards and that is incredibly hard

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7 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

Sorry but you are wrong.  Marine recruits ain't gonna hit 500 meters with an iron sight.  99 percent of the world isn't hitting 500 meters with a scope.  My .308 is sighted to 500 yards and that is incredibly hard

Sorry to disappoint, but...

Every Marine recruit qualifies at 200m offhand/ standing, 300m kneeling/ sitting, and 500m prone.  Open sights, and typically, you make up points at the 500m line, but what the fuck do I know?

https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/marine-corps-weapons-qualification-course.html

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6 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Sorry to disappoint, but...

Every Marine recruit qualifies at 200m offhand/ standing, 300m kneeling/ sitting, and 500m prone.  Open sights, and typically, you make up points at the 500m line, but what the fuck do I know?

https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/marine-corps-weapons-qualification-course.html

 

 

I assume different targets. I don't think I could see a bullseye at 500M.

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It looks like rifle qual changed in 2018, but the 500m line is still involved.    https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/02/23/the-new-marine-corps-rifle-qualification-is-here/

 

All I know is this shit was drilled in our head so much, I can still recite it 35 years later, "Sir, sight alignment is correct when the front sight post is centered both vertically and horizontally in the rear sight aperture, Sir."

Yes.  Open sights.  and yes the targets vary in size for what yard line you are firing from.

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