He was firing indiscriminately with a bump stock that means things were far from smooth on his end of his rifles. If you watch the body cam footage released by LVPD, you can hear him empty entire mags at once.

If he'd wanted to be selective, I'm sure he could've been. I suspect, though, that it was easier for him to fire into a faceless crowd than it was to select and kill individuals in the open.

There's a lot we don't know about why this guy went off his trolley but, unless he was bizarrely turned to ISIS - the only group to have laid claim to the guy - this may be as simple as a guy slowly going nuts in plain sight and then losing it in a horrific meltdown.

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

Paddock was somewhat wealthy, owning multiple properties around the country, including in Florida, Texas and Nevada. I suspect 100 grand wasn't much to him, so it's hard to see this as a gun-for-hire event. As for his will, maybe he was giving her some walking around money until his estate was cleared - it will likely have about 597 lawsuits to settle first, after which there may not be anything left.

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

Those trying to deflect attention away from guns often say that this is a mental health - not gun control - issue. Well, that's partly true; but they undercut themselves when the same people vote - this year - to remove prohibitions on people with mental health issues from buying guns. Yes, that really happened.

Canada is awash with guns. I suspect, though, that they aren't military-style assault rifles. Also, they have universal healthcare, so that people with mental health issues can get treatment. Here in the good ol' U.S. of A., mental health coverage - even under Obamacare - is limited at best. Before Obamacare, you got 30 days under a good plan, then you were on your own. The majority of insurance plans had no mental health coverage.

So, yes, it's a mental health issue in that people with mental health issues go mostly untreated, are out in public, and have open access to as many guns and as much ammo as they can accumulate.

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

Doing a bit of background sniffing - the USA is the only country with more guns than people (only Wiki, but still) with over 110 guns per 100 people (UK is 6.6)

Further - this is terrifying (gun laws by state) and might just explain why the US police are so much more likely to shoot suspects (very good chance they are armed): [Link]

LVPD confirmed last night that he had 12 bump stocks. TWELVE!

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

My bad. Sorry.

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