Some in the media and so called experts are really trying to over-complicate the physical and mental act this shooter performed Sunday night.
How do you get 10 bags to the room and not be noticed? Seriously? He was there since Thursday. He brings up a couple of bags a day and if he makes 2 runs in a day they are spread out far apart. This is easy and no one notices.
He could not have pulled this off without military training, how he attacked showed military planning, etc.....I continue to be shocked at this thinking.
Anyone wanting to kill a bunch of people would pick the upper floors with a line of sight to that area, you are shooting down and have full sight of everything, you do not have to be a military expert to figure this one out. High ground has advantages as anyone knows, it is even a saying - "take the high ground".
"You have to be an expert to be able to shoot these guns." Well, I am an accountant and former auditor and I just recently started to enjoy gun ownership 5 years ago. I have pistols, shotguns and an M&P 15 -.22LR Sport Rifle.
Within a very short period of time I became very accurate with every firearm I own and very knowledgeable in how to break them down. These guns are for hunting, self-defense, and my AR Rifle is a plinking gun for me. The worst thing for any gun is for it to be so difficult to use and for it to require advanced training. No one wants a gun so hard to use it might kill them or someone they know. The military definitely wants guns that are easy to shoot and maintain for soldiers in high stress situations. The simpler the better.
You could blindfold me and I can operate my Glock 19 handgun with ease. There is nothing, and I mean nothing about the guns he was using that was difficult. Changing magazines is simple. Loading magazines is simple. Turning the safety off and on is simple. Learning to use the charging handle on an AR rifle is simple. He was not worried about accuracy, using the bump stock decreases accuracy (and no, you do not need a military expert to tell you that, it is COMMON SENSE) but it puts out lead faster. When you have 22,000 targets he was just wanting to spread lead as fast as he could. He went with simple and fast. Perhaps he had all the rifles loaded with clips so he did not have to even mess with changing out clips? That would make sense in terms of trying to save time to lay more lead down faster and perhaps to not overheat a gun, but again that is COMMON SENSE. You can change clips, fast. Extra guns to me means saving seconds if possible to kill more people.
This man could read, he had some intelligence, he could learn quickly. There is all kinds of information on the internet and on video to get people up to speed very quickly on guns. You have gun ranges and you have instructors. I would suggest if you researched hard enough, read and learned enough, he could have learned more about guns, accessories, and bullet ballistics and types then a person that has just gone thru basic in the military.
I can guarantee you, IMO there is a bunch of gun owners on this board (and I would include myself) that are not military trained that could have physically and mentally performed exactly what this man did within a reasonable amount of time, from initial gun acquisition and target selection.
Maybe, the media and to some degree people do not want to admit that yes, ONE person can do this, perhaps people do not want to believe that and so they put down this guy as an old retired accountant that had no military training so how could he do it? Are people that naïve? Are they naïve about what intelligent human beings that like to read and learn can accomplish on their own? Is our society so dumbed down now, that unless you are spoon fed something from a so-called expert that an individual can not accomplish things on their own? That 64 year old came from a generation that was expected to figure things out on their own and to accept working 80 hours a week in the corporate world if needed doing all kinds of problem solving and detective (audit) work on their own. Yes, some people can still think for themselves.
One thing about auditors? They make an audit program before an audit (they plan every audit step and they plan both time and resources as well), they evaluate audit risk (getting inventory in place, position to shoot from - hide muzzle flash, timing (night), cameras to allow him to select his time of death), they evaluate how to minimize risk, they know what they are trying to accomplish (bump stocks for putting lead down range fast, and 2 shooting nests because he knew people would run in different directions so he wanted multiple angles), and they are very detailed oriented. A bunch of this is common sense, but for him it was second nature. FBI profilers are missing the boat, this man had the right intelligence and the professional and personal skills I noted above to apply this to this situation and to carry it out. Many other professionals in their careers learn very similar skills, skills that can be applied to many things, and in this instance is was to create mass murder.
Many people in the civilian population are smarter than those in the military. I laugh that some think only the military has the corner on planning an attack with the intent to kill.
This can happen again, this was a pretty simple physical and mental act IMO for a normal human.
How do you get 10 bags to the room and not be noticed? Seriously? He was there since Thursday. He brings up a couple of bags a day and if he makes 2 runs in a day they are spread out far apart. This is easy and no one notices.
He could not have pulled this off without military training, how he attacked showed military planning, etc.....I continue to be shocked at this thinking.
Anyone wanting to kill a bunch of people would pick the upper floors with a line of sight to that area, you are shooting down and have full sight of everything, you do not have to be a military expert to figure this one out. High ground has advantages as anyone knows, it is even a saying - "take the high ground".
"You have to be an expert to be able to shoot these guns." Well, I am an accountant and former auditor and I just recently started to enjoy gun ownership 5 years ago. I have pistols, shotguns and an M&P 15 -.22LR Sport Rifle.
Within a very short period of time I became very accurate with every firearm I own and very knowledgeable in how to break them down. These guns are for hunting, self-defense, and my AR Rifle is a plinking gun for me. The worst thing for any gun is for it to be so difficult to use and for it to require advanced training. No one wants a gun so hard to use it might kill them or someone they know. The military definitely wants guns that are easy to shoot and maintain for soldiers in high stress situations. The simpler the better.
You could blindfold me and I can operate my Glock 19 handgun with ease. There is nothing, and I mean nothing about the guns he was using that was difficult. Changing magazines is simple. Loading magazines is simple. Turning the safety off and on is simple. Learning to use the charging handle on an AR rifle is simple. He was not worried about accuracy, using the bump stock decreases accuracy (and no, you do not need a military expert to tell you that, it is COMMON SENSE) but it puts out lead faster. When you have 22,000 targets he was just wanting to spread lead as fast as he could. He went with simple and fast. Perhaps he had all the rifles loaded with clips so he did not have to even mess with changing out clips? That would make sense in terms of trying to save time to lay more lead down faster and perhaps to not overheat a gun, but again that is COMMON SENSE. You can change clips, fast. Extra guns to me means saving seconds if possible to kill more people.
This man could read, he had some intelligence, he could learn quickly. There is all kinds of information on the internet and on video to get people up to speed very quickly on guns. You have gun ranges and you have instructors. I would suggest if you researched hard enough, read and learned enough, he could have learned more about guns, accessories, and bullet ballistics and types then a person that has just gone thru basic in the military.
I can guarantee you, IMO there is a bunch of gun owners on this board (and I would include myself) that are not military trained that could have physically and mentally performed exactly what this man did within a reasonable amount of time, from initial gun acquisition and target selection.
Maybe, the media and to some degree people do not want to admit that yes, ONE person can do this, perhaps people do not want to believe that and so they put down this guy as an old retired accountant that had no military training so how could he do it? Are people that naïve? Are they naïve about what intelligent human beings that like to read and learn can accomplish on their own? Is our society so dumbed down now, that unless you are spoon fed something from a so-called expert that an individual can not accomplish things on their own? That 64 year old came from a generation that was expected to figure things out on their own and to accept working 80 hours a week in the corporate world if needed doing all kinds of problem solving and detective (audit) work on their own. Yes, some people can still think for themselves.
One thing about auditors? They make an audit program before an audit (they plan every audit step and they plan both time and resources as well), they evaluate audit risk (getting inventory in place, position to shoot from - hide muzzle flash, timing (night), cameras to allow him to select his time of death), they evaluate how to minimize risk, they know what they are trying to accomplish (bump stocks for putting lead down range fast, and 2 shooting nests because he knew people would run in different directions so he wanted multiple angles), and they are very detailed oriented. A bunch of this is common sense, but for him it was second nature. FBI profilers are missing the boat, this man had the right intelligence and the professional and personal skills I noted above to apply this to this situation and to carry it out. Many other professionals in their careers learn very similar skills, skills that can be applied to many things, and in this instance is was to create mass murder.
Many people in the civilian population are smarter than those in the military. I laugh that some think only the military has the corner on planning an attack with the intent to kill.
This can happen again, this was a pretty simple physical and mental act IMO for a normal human.
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