If you have no empathy....and the reasons for how that can be are very numerous......If someone like that is going to check out, then there will always be that small percent of them willing to take others with them.

This has always been with us. It's about limiting how much damage they can do.

You just never want one who can launch nuclear weapons or release deadly diseases we have no cures for.

Life is managing risk, but we can never avoid it unfortunately.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

So its an anti-tank tank.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Suspicious for any man if you ask me. A woman, well yeah, that could be just shoes.

But a man, with 10 suitcases - that's a man who has problems.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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There's a gun show every weekend in Las Vegas, where you can buy truck-loads (literally) of firearms legally, and without a background check. I'm sure it's not unusual for a "sportsman" to be heading to his room with any number of guns.

Also, Nevada is an open carry state, so you can walk down the Vegas strip with an AR-15 slung over your shoulder and any number of weapons strapped to you, fully on display, and no one can say anything*.

* Unless you're black; open carry being a purely white privilege.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

I think it's anti most things you want to fire it at. It can even go on water.

Optimistic as ever

One can be "twisted" but still a very careful planner and executor of such a plan.

As to marksmanship, don't get too caught up on that. I was a military qualified marksman in my younger days - shooting any number of weapons including the old British Army standard issue SLR, the Lee-Enfield #4 & #8 and a few others.

Marksmen use single shot weapons because only the first shot will be on target. It's extremely difficult to be accurate at distance and, despite what Hollywood would have you believe, nigh-on impossible to hit anything that's moving. If you're what's moving - say from the recoil from the prior shot - you'll miss every other shot thereafter until you steady yourself again.

The shooter used a bump-stock repeat firing modification, so he was just spraying indiscriminately into a large crowd. Accuracy be damned, he didn't care what he hit.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.