Crime FBI report reveals what most active shooter situations have in common

[Madmick]

We’ve been asking this question since columbine. We as a nation have more guns freely available than any other in the world and we have more gun deaths than any other nation in the world. seems pretty clear.

It seems clear you're misinformed. If only things were simple.

Gun Deaths by Country 2024

worldpopulationreview.com

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

According to what I looked up, he was pro gun and pissed at the casino because he wasn’t treated better. What a fucking pussy

He wasn’t pro gun, his brother claimed he hated guns and didn’t own one. He was a trump hater and his wife was a foreign poc. Then him shooting right wingers kinda proves it.

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

I asked you for a source because when I look it up I find nothing close to what you claim.

Investigators and behavioral analysts at the F.B.I. similarly concluded in 2019 that they could not determine a “single or clear motivating factor” behind the attack. Investigators said it appeared that Mr. Paddock had wanted to die by suicide, after experiencing a decline in physical and mental health.

The newly released reports of F.B.I. interviews with people who knew or interacted with Mr. Paddock, made public in recent days, shed some new light on what has long been known about his obsessive, high-roller gambling habits and his state of mind before he unleashed a barrage of gunfire from his hotel window.

Mr. Paddock, who sometimes spent up to 18 hours a day gambling in various hotels, “was very upset at the way casinos were treating him and other high rollers,” one gambler told the F.B.I.

“The stress could easily be what caused Paddock to ‘snap,’” he said.

The fellow gambler said that Mr. Paddock and gamblers like him would frequently carry around $100,000 in cash and “had a bankroll of approximately $2 to $3 million.” He described Mr. Paddock as personable and intelligent and said that like “all professional gamblers,” Mr. Paddock “frequently kept to himself.”

He explained that casinos had long treated high-rollers with free cruises, penthouse suites and tours but that those perks had been scaled back in recent years.

Gunman in 2017 Las Vegas Shooting Was Angry at Casinos, New F.B.I. Files Show (Published 2023)

While investigators concluded that the motive of Stephen Paddock was unclear, newly released records include an account that he was angry about the casinos’ treatment of wealthy clients.

www.nytimes.com

Stephen Paddock was anti gun according to his brother and ranted about gun control

Stephen Paddock ranted about gun control before Las Vegas massacre: police documents - National | Globalnews.ca

Police documents said a person they believed to be the gunman ranted in the days prior to last October’s Las Vegas Strip attack about the federal government and gun control.

globalnews.ca

 

[Cajun]

Gun ownership went up. Killings went down. Brazil debates why.​

Firearms enthusiasts are claiming victory. Not so fast, criminologists say.

By Elizabeth Dwoskin
and Gabriela Sá Pessoa
December 23, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EST

BALNEÁRIO CAMBORIÚ, Brazil — Take away the açaí smoothies and the skewers of barbecued Brazilian meat and the four-day Texas ExpoTiro here could be a gun show anywhere in the United States.

Firearms dealers from all over the world have rented booths to market Glock pistols and AR-15s, and gun rights advocates are offering lectures on how to confront violent urban crime.

“This is a triumph of liberty!” said retired military police chief Marcelo Venera, the executive director of the two-year-old expo, the largest gun show in the country and the first open to civilians. “We are here to show that we are good people and there is nothing wrong with loving guns!”

The gun owners of Brazil are proclaiming victory these days. Private gun ownership, once tightly restricted in Latin America’s largest country, has grown at least sixfold in the four years since President Jair Bolsonaro began relaxing the rules.

What’s more, gun enthusiasts say, it’s working: The homicide rate in Brazil — one of the world’s most violent countries — has fallen more than 27 percent since 2017.

“Everyone said there would be more homicides when Bolsonaro loosened the restrictions,” said Paulo da Silva, 25, attending the gun show with friends. “But it turned out to be the opposite!”

Not so fast, criminologists say. They’ve spent the past four years trying to understand the unexpected decline — and say it has little to do with Bolsonaro or his decrees.

Research consistently shows that when private gun ownership goes up, killings follow.Analysts say it’s too early to draw conclusions from what they’re calling a global test case for what happens when strict gun rules are suddenly lifted. But many say the drop here has more to do with organized-crime trends, investment in policing and demographics.

Much violent crime in Brazil, and homicides in particular, stems from turf battles between the well-armed drug cartels that control favelas, or slums, throughout the country. The victims are predominantly poor young men of color. In 2017, a major war between the country’s two biggest cartels drove gun-related homicides to record levels.

But since then, conflict between First Capital Command and Red Command has calmed considerably, said Roberto Uchôa, a former federal police officer and member of the Brazilian Public Security Forum.

First Capital Command now dominates São Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state. In Rio de Janeiro, Red Command now clashes mostly with militias run by police, not rival gangs. As a result, the country’s northeast, ground zero for the groups’ 2017 war for new territory, has quieted.

Bolsonaro has also reaped the benefits of a decade of investment in policing, said Isabel Figueiredo, also a member of the Brazilian Public Security Forum, a nonprofit research group that has advocated for tougher gun laws. Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva professionalized local police forces and improved data collection and training, leading to a steady drop in homicides in several states. Lula, who was president from 2003 to 2010, defeated Bolsonaro in October to win a third term; he takes office in January.

-Nicole Bahls. A gift for those reading this wall of text!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/23/brazil-gun-rights-control-bolsonaro/

Interesting.... and imagine that... they dont know why

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

According to what I looked up, he was pro gun and pissed at the casino because he wasn’t treated better. What a fucking pussy

He was anti guns according to his brother and ranted about gun control. That’s why his brother was so shocked. He also hated trump.

Once they found out they swept the shooting under the rug and never talked about it again

Stephen Paddock ranted about gun control before Las Vegas massacre: police documents - National | Globalnews.ca

Police documents said a person they believed to be the gunman ranted in the days prior to last October’s Las Vegas Strip attack about the federal government and gun control.

globalnews.ca

 

[HomeCheese]

Here’s my biggest bitch. Even the active line shooters use handguns more than rifles yet rifles are currently under fire (pun intended) and biden et al want to ban them despite them being used only 16 times in 2023. Meanwhile, they flee from declaring mass shootings as such an issue because it has been shown to not be the lone racist white male shooter in most instances.

If you told me there was a lone gunman that shot up a school or a hospital, I would assume it was a white male but I would also know those are more rare than the two groups or gangs get into a fight and a few shooters open up on each other and hit multiple people. Those shooters are often more prone to melanin but the left doesn’t like to single out those shootings or comment much on them or the fact that they most always use handguns because they are more concealable.

I am just sick of the narrative by the left that it is always a white male using a rifle. They don’t want to acknowledge when a juneteenth block party leaves five or six dead and dozens injured

I think you are missing the point with the attempted bans on automatic rifles. No one really needs an AR 15 style assault weapon while you can make a reasonable argument a hand gun is good for home defense.

So an AR style gun is seen as the low hanging fruit, much less public support for these weapons being sold. So why not start with these? If you can't ban an assault rifle then why even try with hand guns.

I would also suggest that places like NY have some very strong gun laws but still have gun violence. Turns out the majority of illegal guns used in NY are from states with shit laws like Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina.

 

[Satanical Eve]

anyone who's played GTA knows this

What I used to do in GTA IV was get a decent wanted level, go into the internet cafe and just watch as police after police idiotically run into the cafe getting gunned down and same with GTA V. One time I spent about 2 hours doing this until I ran out of ammo and was finally wasted.

 

[nhbbear]

He wasn’t pro gun, his brother claimed he hated guns and didn’t own one. He was a trump hater and his wife was a foreign poc. Then him shooting right wingers kinda proves it.

Did you look at the link? His brother said he was pro gun had had several in a safe

 

[nhbbear]

He was anti guns according to his brother and ranted about gun control. That’s why his brother was so shocked. He also hated trump.

Once they found out they swept the shooting under the rug and never talked about it again

Stephen Paddock ranted about gun control before Las Vegas massacre: police documents - National | Globalnews.ca

Police documents said a person they believed to be the gunman ranted in the days prior to last October’s Las Vegas Strip attack about the federal government and gun control.

globalnews.ca

From your own source

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Federal Emergency Management Agency “camps” set up after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were “a dry run for law enforcement and military to start kickin’ down doors and … confiscating guns.”

“Somebody has to wake up the American public and get them to arm themselves,”

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

Did you look at the link? His brother said he was pro gun had had several in a safe

He ranted about gun control and his brother even said he wasn’t a gun nerd. Having one pistol or hunting rifle doesn’t mean you love guns

 

[Copper Burner]

He wasn’t pro gun, his brother claimed he hated guns and didn’t own one. He was a trump hater and his wife was a foreign poc. Then him shooting right wingers kinda proves it.

The "shooter" was never caught on any surveillance camera carrying gun bags or cases with military grade weapons into the hotel. There is no shortage of cameras in and around that hotel.

The man was killed and framed. Special ops did the shooting. There's evidence of multiple shooters in the crowd. A black hawk was filmed above the event.

Shortly after the shooting starts, the flood lights come on and light the entire crowd up like sitting ducks.

 

[plataoplombo]

Been saying this for a long time but the deterioration of mental health is a major problem. Add with social media adding fuel to the fire, we're going to continue seeing this.

 

[nhbbear]

I think you are missing the point with the attempted bans on automatic rifles. No one really needs an AR 15 style assault weapon while you can make a reasonable argument a hand gun is good for home defense.

So an AR style gun is seen as the low hanging fruit, much less public support for these weapons being sold. So why not start with these? If you can't ban an assault rifle then why even try with hand guns.

I would also suggest that places like NY have some very strong gun laws but still have gun violence. Turns out the majority of illegal guns used in NY are from states with shit laws like Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina.

Wow. Criminals don’t care about gun laws? Who knew? And low hanging fruit, so hey, let’s do it while it will do absolutely nothing to stop gun violence. And who cares if we infringe on the second a little bit-I mean, the founding fathers carried glocks and not long guns, after all. And going for handguns as the ultimate goal is the whole point of my post, but thanks for agreeing there

 

[nhbbear]

He ranted about gun control and his brother even said he wasn’t a gun nerd. Having one pistol or hunting rifle doesn’t mean you love guns

He said multiple guns in a safe and hunted and then the link you provided said he was ranting about fema and the govt taking guns during Katrina, which they did. He was def pro gun

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

The "shooter" was never caught on any surveillance camera carrying gun bags with military grade weapons into the hotel. There is no shortage of cameras in and around that hotel.

The man was killed and framed. Special ops did the shooting. There's evidence of multiple shooters in the crowd. A black hawk was filmed above the event.

Shortly after the shooting starts, the flood lights come on and light the entire crowd up like sitting ducks.

There were videos of him getting his guns delivered to his room in duffel bags.

 

[Copper Burner]

There were videos of him getting his guns delivered to his room in duffel bags.

Let me guess, the dead shooter isn't in any of them.

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

He said multiple guns in a safe and hunted and then the link you provided said he was ranting about fema and the govt taking guns during Katrina, which they did. He was def pro gun

His own brother said he wasn’t pro gun. Him and his brother were anti trump far left wingers, dudes wife even was a person of color

 

[Poon Goon]

Stephen Paddock was anti gun according to his brother and ranted about gun control

Stephen Paddock ranted about gun control before Las Vegas massacre: police documents - National | Globalnews.ca

Police documents said a person they believed to be the gunman ranted in the days prior to last October’s Las Vegas Strip attack about the federal government and gun control.

globalnews.ca

I didn't see Trump mentioned at all, but your source does mention his anger about gun control. It's just wildly different than what you are claiming.

From your source:

The man said Paddock became upset and launched into a tirade about gun control when the man rejected an offer of $500 apiece to modify semi-automatic guns to fire automatically.

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

Let me guess, the dead shooter isn't in any of them.

Yes he was he’s walking with the hotel worker

 

[Copper Burner]

Yes he was he’s walking with the hotel worker

So the hotel worker carried his bags of guns into his room while he walked alongside him?

Edit: watched the vid, looks like he has excessive luggage at minimum.