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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.

YOU have no idea on how a suppressor works. No I won't call you a dumbass and no I won't call you stupid. A suppressor slows down the speed of the gasses driving the projectile down the barrel. Its objective is to slow the gas to subsonic velocities to reduce the sound level. Temperature has nothing to do with the equation. Therefor if the bullet is subsonic and the gasses escaping the suppressor subsonic, the lowest possible sound is achieved. If the bullet is supersonic and the escaping gasses subsonic. The net effect is to make the sound of the shot appear to come from a 90 degree angle from the real exit point of the projectile. The 5.56 or 308 rounds are not subsonic. The only way it works in a rifle like that is too cool the gases to a point where they are subsonic but not have any effect on the bullet. It would be very difficult to fire the four to five hundred yards that he was shooting with subsonic rounds and do the damage that he did. So you may know a little bit about it but you don't know much. And regardless of the argument. Once the silencer or suppressor heats up to the same temperatures the gas coming out it is no longer effective. Therefore using them on automatic rifles for more than just a round or two is useless Stop while you are ahead. I've personally shot over 10,000 rounds from automatic weapons. Including over 3,000 rounds from suppressed weapons. I bought my first Dillon 550 when I was 20 years old.

YOU have no idea on how a suppressor works. No I won't call you a dumbass and no I won't call you stupid. A suppressor slows down the speed of the gasses driving the projectile down the barrel, to subsonic velocity's as the gasses flow around the baffling, in the suppressor. Its objective is to slow the gas to subsonic velocities to reduce the sound level. Temperature has nothing to do with the equation. Therefor if the bullet is subsonic and the gasses escaping the suppressor subsonic, the lowest possible sound is achieved. If the bullet is supersonic and the escaping gasses subsonic. The net effect is to make the sound of the shot appear to come from a 90 degree angle from the real exit point of the projectile.

Its unfortunate that it takes a serious medical event to cause an epiphany of thought. But thats not uncommon. Many of my friends are what most people would call rifle toting rednecks. One of my best friends lives and breaths every opinion of FOX news. If its on FOX it must be true. Sometimes religion takes a beating in these forums and the current events in the persecution of Rohingya. By the Buddhist leadership and military of Myanmar. Suggests that religion, sometimes deserves a broad brush of condemnation. Especially so when such acts are met with silence. But for every act like that there is a religious group funding, pursuing community and economic development. In a disadvantaged community. For every conservative like trump, Judge Moore, etc. There are two ones like McCain. It takes discourse to find them. It takes mutual respect to realize that the discourse of current government doesn't last forever. Sooner or later, it swings to a common ground.

I know this comes as a complete shock, but Trump was actually a person before he became president. Shocking, I know. So, what he did prior to becoming president can still be attributed to him. Shocking right, holding people responsible for their actions. Such liberal snowflake whining right..... I don't know why the village idiot,trump, isn't defending PR. Trump doesn’t deny that four of his businesses have filed for bankruptcy. He argues, however, that filing for bankruptcy is a common business decision, and he was smart to make the moves when he did. "Hundreds of companies" have filed for bankruptcy, Trump said earlier in the debate. "I used the law four times and made a tremendous thing. I'm in business. I did a very good job."... Bankruptcy 1: The Trump Taj Mahal, 1991.. By 1991, the casino was nearly $3 billion in debt.. Bankruptcy 2: Trump Plaza Hotel, 1992... By 1992, the hotel had accumulated $550 million in debt. Bankruptcy 3: Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts, 2004... had accrued an estimated $1.8 billion in debt I Could go on, from the article, but why bother, $5.3 billion just in the first three alone http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/21/carly-fiorina/trumps-four-bankruptcies/ The entirety of PR debt is $73 billion and trump, personally, has left investors out to dry for 13% of that amount of money. But it gets better. Because now trump is now running a bigger casino. The USA. He has a fiscal plan for the USA. Its called tax reform.

By endorsing other "winners". I usually include a quote from the story but the whole article about nutty,nut Judge Moore from Alabama needs to be told. How this guy ever got elected to be a judge is beyond me. No concepts of psychology, interpersonal relationships, group dynamics, group think, mass delusion, can explain this nutjob. "crackpottery" just dosn't meet the smello test for this guy. Yet he won. https://www.salon.com/2017/09/29/roy-moores-victory-and-the-republican-feedback-loop-of-crazy/ This story has a bit of a description that address some of the illogical psychology of his "win". Yes. I am aware of the populist rage afoot in the land. I did not need Hillbilly Elegy to tell me about the alienation that working-class whites—especially in rural, economically challenged areas—feel toward the sneering, culturally blue swaths of the nation. (That said, the book was a ripping good read.) I am all too familiar with the bubbling stew of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, nationalism, antisemitism, anti-intellectualism, anti-establishmentism, anti-governmentism, anti-mediaism, and revanchism that Donald Trump has ushered center stage in American politics. But seriously, Roy Moore? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/the-lawlessness-of-roy-moore/541467/

I think he is from PR. His support for trump clouds his judgement as to how good a job the Feds. can do.

You think they're jeopardising their income streams because it's trendy? They are celebrities and they are behaving as such. MSM plays it up because it creates sensationalism. There are more important issues in America than this one. Veteran suicide, adolescent suicide, veteran homelessness, drug addiction, etc. That's why leadership from the President should be directed in those areas. Rather than picking fights with the NFL, the mayor of San Juan, Senator McCain etc. A leader picks the issue, drives the narrative to achieve the result. Is not sidetracked by issues that distract from the narrative of the most important objectives. A leader pounds the pavement and the podium, equally. With focus on the end achievement.

That does not change how people feel. That is why Donald Trump is the POTUS. If you want to address people's emotions, you have to do better than quote laws or statistics. Oh Ron! There you go with feelings and emotions. Again. I am a professionally trained counselor. That is what I do. Sports psychologists have long operated on the basis that feelings and emotions are nearly as important as talent and physical ability. But Wendy is quite correct that emotions will always be trumped(pardon the pun) by the purely factual, the physical.

That does not change how people feel. That is why Donald Trump is the POTUS. If you want to address people's emotions, you have to do better than quote laws or statistics. Oh Ron! There you go with feelings and emotions. Again.

I understand your point. But IMO Mayors have very limited authority. Certainly they can"t go to the dock and grab containers owned by FEMA or private concerns. Order the captains of ships to release cargo's. No fuel, no comms,no electrical, no water. No federal leadership for the first week either. Wait breaking news!! "Trump slams Puerto Rico: ‘They want everything to be done for them’ http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353216-trump-criticizes-san-juan-mayors-poor-leadership-during-puerto-rico Trump: 'Fake news' is trying to 'disparage' first responders in Puerto Rico http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353217-trump-fake-news-is-trying-to-disparage-first-responders-in-puerto 'Not enough' troops, equipment in Puerto Rico, says general in charge of relief http://thehill.com/policy/defense/353137-not-enough-troops-equipment-in-puerto-rico-says-general-in-charge-of-relief

Standby water rescue boats MUST be available anytime a DZ is close to water. Wind can aggravate the landing and pickup. Tangled lines and possible canopy damage requires people in the boat with training. Everyone in the equation must be excellent swimmers. With training anything can be done. The premise that this idea will reduce injuries because a water landing is softer is fatally flawed.

IMO judgment, self righteousness, and hatred are shared equally by those who believe in any god and those that don't. The indifference that the world has today for the Rohingya, for Kurds,etc. is no different. The Pope, Islamic leaders have said nothing just as few voiced concerns. When ethnic cleansing, hatred, prosecuted religions and skin color before. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41420973

Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore failed to disclose at least $50,000 he earned from speaking engagements in his filing to the Senate Ethics Committee. The former Alabama Supreme Court judge told the Senate Ethics Committee in his filings that he did not profit "for an article, speech or appearance." However, Moore's filings with the Alabama Ethics Commission show that he made between $50,000 and $150,000 from speaking engagements, according to the commission's 2016 filings. The Daily Beast was the first to report Moore's failure to disclose such income. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/352975-moore-didnt-disclose-at-least-50k-in-income-on-senate-ethics A lying politician and a judge at that. Who'd have thunk it.

Or as trump put it to his friends. "For my friends anything. For the peasants, the tax code".

Not exactly. It shows that the cops (or feds in this case) were able to convince the judge that there is probable cause to search for evidence. It's more that the judge believes the cops are convinced that there is evidence. A bit of "hair splitting", but an important distinction. Technically you're both right. A crime and evidence that the state believes should be collected. There may not be a crime and there may not be evidence. But the motion before the judge lays out the states belief in both, via affidavit.

Reaganomics promised to reduce the government's influence on the economy. That policy was dramatically different from the status quo. Prior presidents Johnson and Nixon expanded the government's role. Reagan pledged to make cuts in four areas: The growth of government spending. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. Regulations on businesses. The expansion of the money supply.... The result? The federal debt almost tripled, from $997 billion in 1981 to $2.857 trillion in 1989. (Source: William A. Niskanen, "Reaganomics," Library of Economics and Liberty.) https://www.thebalance.com/reaganomics-did-it-work-would-it-today-3305569 So no.

The U.S. law that has protected workers from gender and racial bias for more than half a century should not be extended to cover gay and lesbian employees because that isn’t what Congress envisioned when it passed the bill, Trump administration lawyers told a federal appeals court. Judges must interpret laws based on lawmakers’ intent, and Congress didn’t have the LGBT community in mind when it crafted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Justice Department attorney Hashim Mooppan argued on Tuesday in Manhattan. The agency made its case in defense of a New York skydiving company accused of firing a worker for being gay. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-26/trump-administration-says-workplace-bias-rules-don-t-cover-gays Gay skydivers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and trump's ideas of justice. Sounds like a natural fit.

His selective outrage is very Christian. Let no stone be uncast.

Ron is a good fit for NASCAR. 1. Lots of confederate symbols waving in the wind. 2. Hats removed and right hand covering the heart during the national anthem. 3. Flypast of military aircraft at end of anthem. 4. Pre-race Invocation. Because NASCAR is a private organization they get away with it. 5. No Blacks to be seen. Keeping up national anthem controversy, Trump touts NASCAR's patriotism http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/25/politics/donald-trump-national-anthem-nascar/index.html Dale Earnhardt Jr. the most popular driver in NASCAR, who is retiring this year, tweeted: Dale Earnhardt Jr. ✔ @DaleJr All Americans R granted rights 2 peaceful protests Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable-JFK 5:54 AM - Sep 25, 2017 Credit to him.

Says everything about your personal perspective. 11 presidents -a couple wars -several recessions -end of cold war -collapse of Soviet Union - 9/11 and this is the turning point from your point of view. That Obama's legislation changed the US internal perspective to one of hate and division.