Five years ago the nation and Las Vegas was shaken by a “lone gunman” who murdered many people. But was there more to the story?
“Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.” Isaiah 47:11
The Las Vegas shooting came suddenly and seemingly from nowhere in ‘sin city’. Between the Temple of Luxor and the Mandalay Hotel & Casino, with the Luxor phallus and sphinx in the background. All in a “child friendly” atmosphere at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival country concert featuring the group Live Nation.
Well, maybe not as it all appears, but this is Las Vegas, you know, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Maybe Not this time. The Bible verse is talking about the practitioners of sorcery, astrologers, stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators in the verses surrounding the above mentioned. Isn’t that what the people were in the midst of?
Everything to this Las Vegas story smells like day old fish left outside in the hot summer sun. How does a hotel guest identified as 64 year old Stephen Paddock, haul multiple firearms, multiple thousands of rounds of ammo, different types no less, multiple weapons, power tools, recording equipment, the baggage to haul it inside and who knows what else into the Mandalay Bay Hotel and gambling casino and up to the 32nd floor without anybody being the slight bit suspicious?
If Al Capone or Bugsy Moran were running the hotel maybe I might believe it, but now? No way! There are cameras, motion detectors and people looking everywhere, there are heat sensors, metal detectors, biometric and crowd scanners, and various other devices that detect and sense just about everything that takes place today. And security is tight in most places too, especially gambling casinos where they want to keep track of every potentially suspicious move.
These LV casinos and hotels are no small time rackets, they are multi-Billion dollar big time business! Big hotels and casinos for big shots with big bucks. Only the latest in accommodations and technology for their big time customers. If you have any doubt just watch a few old movies, like the Ocean’s series and you will see what the movies portray, much less than what actual casinos have in place. Immediately following the massacre security was heightened and experts interviewed.
Could this increased security still being implemented with scanners, wands, security doorways, etc, be part of the new surveillance state unfolding with the recent Covid injections and the bio luminescent image producing material called luciferase? That material is like a QR code that can be read by scanners, etc and immediately notify security if you are “safe” or not to enter? Could the Las Vegas murders have been part of a mental Pavlov’s dog response to get most Americans to demand extra security and voluntarily accept loss of freedom and movement? We’ll probably never know that, but there are many details we do know for a fact. We’ll look at some of these below.
Sixty people died, 58 at the scene and two later, as a result of the shooting massacre all attributed to Paddock. So, how does a guy pull off this grand murder, and why? First, Bringing or using recording devices in a casino is a no no, and usually gets people permanently banned, they don’t come in and they don’t pass “GO”. They don’t want anybody recording anything to beat their racket or see who is winning or bringing lotsa money into the place. They have their own cameras and security for that. That being the case, if Paddock was the only shooter, how did he get in all in?
Next, his own brother said he was not ex military, not even a gun guy, but he had several automatic firearms. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to own these, but really, no experience and 60 kills and multitudes, over 400 wounded and over 800 injured! He reeled off over a thousand rounds in 4 1/2 minutes at approximately 500 yards away! Really?! Let’s think about that, that’s over a quarter mile away. Gun guys and military personnel take lots of practice to hit targets at that range. At that range you don’t just aim or point, you’ve got to consider elevation, windage, and other factors.
Reportedly, Paddock had 24 rifles and a pistol. It has been reported that 12 of the rifles had 100 round magazines attached. The firearms were of the AR-15 and AR-10 models. One shooting a NATO round of .223 and the other a .308, or 7.62×51 round. Even if he had 100 round capacity magazines for the .223 (just a slightly larger and more powerful .22 sized bullet) he would have to either change rifles over 12 times, or change magazines, in just over 4 minutes! The .308 round has at max a 50 round capacity drum, but this is the round most likely to inflict any damage on anybody 500 yards away. Interestingly, the Sheriff and FBI found that Paddock had only fired 8 of the AR-10 .308 rounds. They also concluded that Paddock had fired 1,058 of the .223 NATO round from 15 firearms. For a guy who’s not ex-military and not a gun guy? That would be stretching reality even for gun guys and military! It doesn’t seem realistic to me.
Anybody with full auto experience, and he DID NOT have automatic firearms according to reports, knows that you can only get off short bursts of fire to stay accurately on target. And then, he has to change either the firearm or the magazine when he’s out of ammo. And reportedly again, Paddock did NOT have any automatic weapons, only what’s called a “bump stock” device! Even slower! Again, I say, No way Jose! By the way, bump stocks were officially banned in December 2018.
Even if he had 100 and 50 round magazines and automatic weapons, which he DID NOT have, he still had to stop firing and either change firearms or the magazine. With approximately 560 hits he would have had to stop firing and change something over 10 times. That doesn’t even consider having to reassess his targets and fire, and this is not even counting the missed shots.
On top of that the people he was firing at were not standing up and sitting still, holding bright light targets and waiting for him like ducks on a pond. It was dark, people were running, ducking, hiding, crouching behind defensive positions, etc. They were doing what any rational minded person would do by trying to avoid being shot.
Did I say 500 yards away? From just this one point it doesn’t add up. There was just not enough time for one shooter to do the damage done in the amount of time cited, not even close. Expertise? Not a gun guy and not ex military. I think it would have required several shooters to do this kind of damage. Have we been played? Set up?
Third issue, where is the hotel security video that shows him walking into the hotel, carting lotsa guns and ammo, or even what could be guns and ammo? I know, 24 pieces of luggage, but I still don’t buy it. Somehow, we always see that video when they’ve got something on someone, where is this one? Especially in a place that has security cameras everywhere! Yes, the hotel staff reported that he brought into the hotel twenty two known pieces of luggage. Most women don’t even bring that much luggage, do they? Did he drive a greyhound bus to the hotel just to carry the luggage? Another detail that just doesn’t make sense to me. And, don’t forget that Paddock and or his accomplices had to haul up power tools to screw the upper floor doors to the door frame to prevent entrance.
Fourth, and this is a big one, the supposed police video shows muzzle flashes from automatic gun fire from the fourth floor, at least it appears as hot muzzle flashes to my eye. Do they have problems distinguishing floors 4 from 32? Or was there another shooter on the 4th floor helping out? (NOTE: Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo concluded that there was no second shooter.) A shooter would Not have had to break out a window on the 4th floor as he would have had to do on the 32nd and other upper level floors. Oh geez, I forgot Snopes said that was “misinformation”. That’s like the thief saying, ‘hey, look over there, not over here.’
The enemies of our country and our freedom have no problem killing people. They don’t think like most normal people in America do. They don’t mind killing for money, they’re criminals, that’s why they often wind up in prison, at least the street thugs. White collar or upper level criminals rarely get caught or spend time in prison, they prefer to let lower level criminals pay the price for them. These people often disdain typical Americans and may have pet monikers for them like “cattle” or “pigs” or “vermin” and have no problem removing their, perhaps your, life so they can make a buck. They deem us expendable. Is that why Paddock and or other unnamed persons murdered 60, wounded 400 plus and injured over 800? Because they were expendable to accomplish some dark deed?
It was reported that somebody in Las Vegas had been pushing huge metal detectors with big dollars signs attached to them to casinos for the previous year or two before the shooting, with no sales to up to that time. Was there a connection there? Evil people have no level they won’t stoop to get what they want. Money, power, both, more?
Immediately following the murders all those casinos were suddenly clambering for those same huge discreet expensive metal detectors they rejected before. The murderous event appears to have been a boost for sales. Was it perhaps staged by professional assassins? We don’t know, the investigation was concluded in August 2018 by the Clark County Sheriff and in January 2019 by the FBI.
Then there’s the story of a Mexican woman shouting “you’re all gonna die” before the concert. Psychological warfare, then actual warfare perhaps? Could a possible Pavlov’s dog type conditioning have been at play here? Was this a deception to further tighten down on social media discussion, more stringent algorithms, or ??
I have also read that a woman was murdered across town and drew the majority of the police force to that event. Then the murderer(s) opened fire when most of Las Vegas police were drawn to the other side of town and the time had passed to decoy them.
A well thought out plan, but then suicide? How convenient, I guess dead men tell no tales. Doesn’t make logical sense to plan this in depth murder scheme, and then suicide. Perhaps I’ve watched too many mystery movies, but this Las Vegas murder scenario doesn’t add up. A brilliant scheme, lots of fire power, well thought out details like screwing floor entrance doors closed, and other details, then boxing himself into a hotel room and not leaving himself an escape route. No suicide note for his reasons why (they always want somebody to know why), and no confidante who knew the secret.
In my opinion there is more at play here that doesn’t immediately meet our eyes. So, we cannot be dumb sheep, we’ve got to think and speak. Don’t allow the dominant media to control the narrative as they have already proved themselves to be deceivers.
There is more to this, So, did the murderer have accomplices? Better yet, how many? The Sheriff says no accomplices. Even more, who were they really working for? Deep State, Mossad, Communist Party? Was it a heist gone bad? Was this event perpetrated by opponents of guns to stop bills in congress from loosening restrictions on guns?
A tell tale sign may be some of the comments made by a CBS executive who was fired for publicly voicing her opinion. Now former CBS executive Hayley Geftman-Gold wrote, “I’m actually not even sympathetic [because] country music fans often are Republican gun toters.” Could this have been part of the Red October Centennial planned by US Communists?
Pay close attention to the names that keep reappearing in many of the news stories either as perpetrators, protesters, radicals those causing violence, or executives making ‘better than you’ statements that we should be paying attention to. Keep your eyes and ears open, there is much to be aware of. Prepare yourself for the worst, hope for the best and get right with the Almighty.
The motive for the shootings has never been established for what is officially the largest mass murdering committed by an individual shooter in US history. Sixty people died and we don’t even know why, at the hands of what appears to be a madman of some sort. But, was it really what appears to have happened? There are way too many loose ends that I haven’t even mentioned in this article that don’t add up to me. The issues in this article are enough for me though to say, nah. Think what you want, but I think more is taking place behind the curtain that ultimately affects us all. Let me know your thoughts.
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