Shooting at Las Vegas casino

From maps I've seen, across LV Blvd and about a quarter block North.

 

I believe I've been metal detected at most big shows I've gone to this year - Wrigley Field and Soldier Field already have them installed for games, and I'm pretty sure the amphitheater in Tinley Park has them, too. Not sure if we went through one at Northerly Island Pavillion last weekend. I'd had a few, and I wasn't really thinking about it. I'm pretty used to going through them at courthouses, so it's not something I especially notice.

When we left U2 in June, there were sniper cops with rifles trained on the dispersing crowd. It was certainly jarring.

This was different, obviously, Someone shooting from a tall building overlooking the crowd, outside of the venue's cone of protection. I don't know what you do. Live with it, I guess.

 

I've been in that area more than a few times ... you don't sense it from @Riptide's picture, but that's a damn long way (from a Mandalay Bay room) to where that crowd would be.

 

I saw that video this morning, too, and it looks like the hotel is right on top of the crowd. But I probably saw the same map as you - it's a ways down the street.

Compare to the Texas School Book Depository site, where the sixth floor is basically right on top of where the motorcade came through.

God, what a ghoulish conversation.

 

Yeah, those casino properties are huge. It takes several minutes to walk from one end to the other.

 

Maybe not so far when you're emptying an automatic rifle. Let's ask the NRA.

 

It's unlikely he used a fully automatic weapon.

A fully automatic weapon doesn't shoot further than a semi-automatic weapon.

 

Listening to the audio of this shooting and there is absolutely no fucking reason for a civilian to own something that can squeeze off this many shots in such a short period of time. It sounds like a helicopter circling overhead.

 

He didn't have to be that accurate when you're just spraying 40,000 people with Long rifles from such an angle

 

Just got on Google Earth and "estimated" it ... from the closest Mandalay Bay tower to where the bulk of concert-goers would have been is about 1,100 feet. For reference re: @Dick Whitman's, from the repository to where the motorcade was is about 200 feet.