Phil1111

The premise is not false. No other civilized country is plagued bygun violence like America. Look, I am willing to listen to any idea. Got any that would have stopped the shooting this weekend? Why do you insist upon teasing everyone who reads your posts. You see you do not have any ideas either. Perfect example I why I waste little time on those like you...... You are very kind and considerate, unlike trump. thanks!!

The premise is not false. No other civilized country is plagued bygun violence like America. Look, I am willing to listen to any idea. Got any that would have stopped the shooting this weekend? Why do you insist upon teasing everyone who reads your posts.

... I am still staggered that Americans are told to accept rampant gun violence as "the price of freedom" while the idea of universal healthcare is somehow just inconceivable. I feel like the only thing that will change it is those spewing stupidity like "the price of freedom" start paying a whole lot more of that price. According to my calculations. The actual cost of freedom, i.e. gun violence, in the US over the lifetime of US citizen is $139,000. "the U.S. was found to be on course for the lowest average life expectancy levels of all the rich countries worldwide... very unequal to an extent the whole national performance is affected – it is the only country without universal health insurance," ... the U.S. has the highest child and maternal mortality, homicide rate, and body-mass index of any high-income country.... https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/22/us-life-expectancy-is-low-and-is-now-projected-to-be-on-par-with-mexico-by-2030.html The annual cost for victims of gun violence is an average of $2.8 billion in emergency-room and inpatient charges alone, the study concluded. If lost wages are factored in, the financial burden rises to $45 billion each year. https://qz.com/1093144/us-gun-violence-costs-an-average-of-2-8-billion-a-year-a-johns-hopkins-study-reveals/ Assuming 80 year life expectancy, interest 5%, single annual compounding,$137 a year per person cost, of $45 billion over a 318 million population. The average life expectancy of a US citizen is only 78. But the OECD average country with universal health care is 80.

I LOVE that Headline. This is the same guy that stole from charities and made it a habit of promising donations to Charities. For which he reneged on the actual donation.

Ivanka, Trump Jr. were nearly charged with fraud in 2012: report ...The case disappeared after Trump's personal attorney, Marc Kasowitz, met with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to ask him to drop the investigation.... That same year, Kasowitz donated $25,000 to Vance's campaign... A later donation of $50,000, however, occurred less than six months after Vance dropped the case... “I donated to Cy Vance’s campaign because I was and remain extremely impressed by him as a person of impeccable integrity, as a brilliant lawyer and as a public servant with creative ideas and tremendous ability,” Kasowitz told ProPublica http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353788-ivanka-trump-donald-trump-jr-were-almost-indicted-over-fraud The Trump kids partnered on the project with two Soviet-born businessmen, one of whom was Felix Sater, who previously pleaded guilty to racketeering and had spent time in prison for a bar fight where he attacked a man with the stem of a margarita glass. ... Business was slow, but the Trump family claimed the opposite. In April 2008, they said that 31 percent of the condos in the building had been purchased. Donald Jr. boasted to The Real Deal magazine that 55 percent of the units had been bought. In June 2008, Donald, Jr. and Ivanka, alongside their brother Eric, gathered the foreign press at Trump Tower in Manhattan, where Ivanka announced that 60 percent had been snapped up… None of that was true. According to a sworn affidavit by a Trump partner filed with the New York Attorney General’s office, by March of 2010, almost two years after the press conference, only 15.8 percent of units had been sold. This was more than a marketing problem. The deal hinged on selling at least 15 percent of the units. By law, the sales couldn’t close with anything less. The Trumps and their partners would have had to return the buyers’ down payments. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/04/propublica_report_ivanka_trump_and_don_jr_nearly_indicted_for_real_estate.html Just more draining the swamp.

The Justice Department is demanding that Facebook turn over information from three accounts that could provide access to the personal details of thousands of activists who expressed interest in anti-Trump rallies. The department obtained search warrants targeting three Facebook accounts that were used to organize Inauguration Day protests against Donald Trump, the ACLU said late Thursday. But accessing those accounts would provide information on thousands of other users who "liked" an anti-Trump Facebook page, the group explained. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-demand-facebook-share-information-anti-trump-protesters-n805801

It appears as if the gunman had up to a dozen bumpstocks in his hotel room. Its been reported that he bought 33 guns in the last 12 months. LE has reported that he fired continuously for between nine and 12 minutes. Then ceased fire. The time between when he opened fire, 10:08 P.M. and when LE breached his door, 11:20 P.M. Means he was in the room for an hour after the shooting ceased, until LE entered his room. America's gun culture in eight charts http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081

Now, the next crisis you're going to hear about, and it's not widely talked about yet: Cash Well its been discussed in the news quite a bit. Limits on ATM withdraws for the very few in San Juan that work. Limits on bank withdrawals. You need power and internet for the banking system to work. Beyond that if you're not working. If your business isn't running. If you have no insurance or can't make a claim and get paid. You won't have any cash. Then what?

A forensic psychiatrist told Fox News on Tuesday morning that CNN was to blame for mass shootings like what transpired in Las Vegas. “I think that CNN’s going to have to answer how they demonize gun enthusiasts and how CNN actually contributes to mass shooting,” Michael Welner said. “And I think that they do.” https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-cnn-mass-shootings-1ad50b45ba2c/ Fox can sure find them.

Well 41/2 hours on the ground. Leaving one hour earlier than scheduled. Thats all it takes to get a handle on it. So that would be 8 hours in air farce one for 4.5 on the ground. Good thing its "Trump to Puerto Rico: your hurricane isn’t a “real catastrophe” like Katrina" https://www.vox.com/2017/10/3/16411488/trump-remarks-puerto-rico

No,not the one on the right. There is allot of BS online about "bump stocks" . It has some high end (expensive) add on parts.The one in the left picture I don't know. The disadvantage of bump stocks is you can't control the trigger, firing rate, like a regular stock/trigger combo. Without going too deep into it because I don't believe in educating the stupid. Not referring to you or anyone else that regularly reads this column. This is the search that came up on google for "ar-15 drop in auto sear". https://www.google.ca/search?q=ar-15+drop+in+auto+sear&dcr=0&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4pJy0n9XWAhWm8oMKHaCTBjcQsAQIJw&biw=1237&bih=791#imgrc=8q_bI689lTUShM: The whole page is filled with schematics and info on how to do it. Its easy. Bump stocks may be quicker to utilize, but the first image its hard to tell. The second does not. The website Ar-15.com is filled with discussions skirting on the edge of the law. With regards to all of this stuff. Mostly young kids and SEAL wannabes.

First pictures have been released of two guns likely used by the Vegas gunman. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41487593 The Weapon in the left photo appears to be a AR variant with a scope and bipod. The one in the right photo is a AR-15 variant with a a 100 round capacity surefire brand magazine in it.

Um, some photos of a generic middle aged white guy with a beard at a Trump protest are already out, courtesy of a massive group of internet trolls actively searching for anything that would support the assumption that he's a liberal terrorist. Can you honestly look at those photos and tell me with certainty that guy in the pink shirt is Steve Paddock? Seriously? LE and major media certainly has made no such connection. Right Wing wants to start a anti trump spin. Nothing new. Bring on the twitter, facebook, trolls. Fake News needs rebroadcast in order for disinformation to spread.

Wow, that is just incredible. In what way? Seriously, after Texas & Florida got hit, there was a huge outpouring of support. State, local, federal, media, social media, sports figures, everything. It was handled well. After Puerto Rico got hit, the public response was non-existent. When Trump said "we're doing a fantastic job", it was clearly not the case. When the mayor said "we need help", Trump and all the "Trumpettes" attack her. What. The. Fuck. Pop star Lady Gaga suggested Saturday that President Trump “isn’t helping” Puerto Rico because it lacks electoral votes. “Oh I see @realDonaldTrump you're not helping [Puerto Rico] because of the electoral votes u need to be re-elected #Florida=29 #Texas=38 #PuertoRico=0,” Gaga tweeted. http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/353241-lady-gaga-trump-not-helping-puerto-rico-because-of-the

Of course not. He's a troll before there was a internet. He panders to his base, a base that writes his paychecks. Just like Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, etc.

I don't disagree with what you've said. I was raised around guns and farming. Where I could walk out the back door with my stainless S&W .357 and head out to the pasture to shoot to my hearts content. Yesterday on another forum. There was a comment. "Only in the US can everyone have the right to own and use a machine gun. But its a privilege to get the medical care to repair those results and freedoms". He could have killed more by flying a aircraft into that crowd as he was a pilot. But Hollywood gunthink, copycat thinking, the ready availability of guns in the US. Have made the US the poster child for these events. Sure they have occurred elsewhere. Canada, Australia, UK, France, etc. But only in the US is this so sickening repetitive. So disheartening.

You spoke too soon. Alex Jones went off the rails after ISIS claimed the shooter was their instrument and then followed up with another story that ANTIFA material was found in the hotel room and this is the beginning of the ANTIFA/Democratic Soros controlled conspiracy to start a civil war in November. I've also seen roll ups on FB stating he was a fan of *insert a number of left leaning pages here* but no one has been able to post a screenshot of the shooter's profile confirming and the Trumpets are just eating it up. The story: Alex Jones blames leftists, Communists, globalists, ISIS, antifa for Las Vegas shootings https://www.salon.com/2017/10/02/alex-jones-las-vegas

Thats going to be hard to beat. But the day is young.

Bill O'Reilly: Las Vegas shooting 'the price of freedom' http://thehill.com/homenews/media/353503-bill-oreilly-las-vegas-shooting-the-price-of-freedom CBS executive fired after saying Las Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy “I’m actually not even sympathetic [because] country music fans often are Republican gun toters," former executive Hayley Geftman-Gold wrote. http://thehill.com/homenews/media/353495-cbs-executive-fired-after-saying-las-vegas-victims-didnt-deserve-sympathy How journalists earn their political stripes: https://www.poynter.org/news/lone-wolf-or-terrorist-how-bias-can-shape-news-coverage More will come.

How Trump turned against gun control When attempting to interpret Donald Trump's statements on firearm regulation, and how they could shape a presidential policy response to the Las Vegas mass shooting, the key is to note when he said them.... From then on Mr Trump - in his statements and on his campaign website - largely echoed the NRA's hard line on firearm issues. The group would end up spending more than $30m (£22m) to support Mr Trump's presidential bid. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41478293

It is somewhat disturbing to learn more about the Vegas gunman. Then compare him to James T. Hodgkinson, 66, of Belleville, Illinois. He is the Virginia gunman. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/who-is-james-t-hodgkinson/530295/ For Hodgkinson there seems to be an understandable political motive. For Stephen Paddock, 64, motive seems so far unfathomable. Guess the picture will emerge given time.

I was in PR about seven years ago. The San Juan newspaper would have two murders a day on the third page. Plus another 1/2 dozen stabbings and misc drug deal-seizure-shootout. It ain't no Virgin Islands. But its far, far better than Honduras.

A friend who is a gunsmith got a permit to build a suppressed sten gun from scratch. This was about 35 years ago. It was very heavy for a 9mm and as such very easy to control. We would take it to the range and run a 000 rounds through it each. Our fingers would get raw from reloading mags. At the end of the day our entire hands were black and we stunk of powder.

There is a place called you-tube. All kinds of rednecks doing dumb stuff with guns. Including full auto. I'm surprised you don't have a channel of your own! You can skip to 7:26 for full auto suppressed from "M16". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM8xvE5B4yk The gas temperature for a .5 meter rifle barrel is shown in the graph below. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316007119_Internal_and_Transitional_Ballistic_Solution_for_Spherical_and_Perforeted_Propellants_and_Verification_with_Experimental_Results It indicates 2000 K at the muzzle which equates to 3140 Fahrenheit. 14) How does the heat generated from firing a gun affect the suppressor? 10/22/2012 The hot expanding gases that propel the projectile are trapped within the silencer and cause the temperature of the silencer to increase. The more intense your firing schedule, the hotter the silencer (and the barrel) will become. Higher pressure rounds also lead to higher temperatures within the silencer because of the amount of hot expanding gases that the silencer will trap. http://www.advanced-armament.com/FAQs_ep_41-1.html#48

Maybe, maybe not. The audio I heard (and I only heard a bit on the news, I haven't gone and looked for it) had fairly long and consistent bursts. No "stumbling" through a couple shots semi, in the middle of a longer burst. The bump fire stocks, or a Hell Fire, or the "Rubber Band" technique or any of the "use the recoil of the shot to push it back then go forward to pull the trigger" techniques require a fair amount of finesse. Getting the sort of consistency I heard takes a good bit of practice. It's easy enough to do on the range, but under stress? The "fine motor skills" necessary to do that sort of thing are the first to go under that kind of stress. I am very interested in hearing an official statement on the weapon(s) used. Drop in auto sears and drop in auto devices are easy to build and fit most older AR-15's. Most (original)full auto military rifles can be converted from semi to full auto by any gunsmith or machinist. Who aren't afraid of ATF and/or prison. What this means is that there are 7.62(.308) machine guns where the sideplates (the receiver as defined by ATF) are retooled or removed. Then the weapon is sold as a semi-auto kit. The same as any regular firearm. This also applies to 5.56 full auto weapons(SAW). Some of the firing sequences from the audio suggest magazines larger than 30 rounds. This shooter was shooting for one hour and 12 minutes before his Mandalay suite door was breached. There have been three IS/Islam terror attacks in Canada. Two days ago in Edmonton Canada a Somali refugee struck a cop with a car hard enough to launch the cop 15' in the air. Then he attacked him with a knife and fled. He has a IS flag in his car. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/terrorism-charges-edmonton-attacks-1.4316450 In the 2014 attacks, one on parliament hill, Ottawa Ont. a deranged man who wanted to do Jihad used a lever action rifle to kill a war memorial honor guard. Two days prior to that a car was used as a weapon to kill a solider and injure another in a separate attack. The relative unavailability of weapons in Canada vr. the US is undoubtedly a factor in keeping fatalities lower in Canada.