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CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas Victims Because ‘Country Music Fans Often Republicans’ - Geftman-Gold also happens to be a big fan of former Democrat candidate for President, Hillary Clinton. So much so, that she held a block party for Hillary on election night in 2016.
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Vegas gunman’s ‘psychopath’ dad landed on FBI’s most-wanted list
By Max Jaeger
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock and Stephen Paddock FBI ; Facebook
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock and Stephen Paddock FBI ; Facebook Father and Son
Las Vegas shooter was a degenerate gambler
The father of Las Vegas madman Stephen Paddock was a “psychopath” himself — a bank robber who escaped federal prison in the late 1960s and landed on the FBI’s most-wanted list, according to reports.
Paddock’s dad was serial felon Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, according to the Daily Mail and a tweet from NBC.
Benjamin Paddock had been locked up in 1960 for robbing an Arizona bank, escaped in 1968 and spent nearly three years on the run before the FBI caught up to him in Las Vegas in 1971, at which point he tried to run down an agent with his car, according to archival editions of the Tuscon Daily Citizen.
“Since he has utilized firearms in previous crimes, has employed violence in attempting to evade arrest and has been diagnosed as being psychopathic, [Benjamin] Paddock should be considered extremely dangerous,” Palmer M. Baken Jr., agent in charge of the Phoenix FBI office, said at the time, according to the Citizen.
Paddock’s dad was serial felon Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, according to the Daily Mail and a tweet from NBC.
Benjamin Paddock had been locked up in 1960 for robbing an Arizona bank, escaped in 1968 and spent nearly three years on the run before the FBI caught up to him in Las Vegas in 1971, at which point he tried to run down an agent with his car, according to archival editions of the Tuscon Daily Citizen.
“Since he has utilized firearms in previous crimes, has employed violence in attempting to evade arrest and has been diagnosed as being psychopathic, [Benjamin] Paddock should be considered extremely dangerous,” Palmer M. Baken Jr., agent in charge of the Phoenix FBI office, said at the time, according to the Citizen.
No, This Isn't The Time To Talk Gun Control. Here Are 3 Reasons Why.
By BEN SHAPIRO @benshapiroIn the aftermath of Sunday night’s massacre outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas by Stephen Paddock, 64 — a massacre that ended with at least 50 dead and more than 400 wounded, making it the bloodiest mass shooting in American history — the political actors got right to work promulgating their various agenda items. Gun control advocates sent the hashtag #GunControlNow soaring on Twitter. The president of Media Matters tweeted snarkily, “9 AM. Time for the parade of right-wing chorus of ‘now is not the time to talk about gun control policy’ to begin.” Famed British atheist Richard Dawkins was even less tactful:
Here are a few thoughts.
Here are a few thoughts.
1. The Motive Of The Shooter Is Still Unknown. At the time of this writing, we still don’t know the shooter’s motive.
✔@ABC.@BrianRoss:
Las Vegas suspect had no criminal record, had pilot's license, Alaska hunting license & was accountant http://abcn.ws/2hGPwrW
8:14 AM - Oct 2, 2017
✔@ABC.@BrianRoss:
Las Vegas suspect had no criminal record, had pilot's license, Alaska hunting license & was accountant http://abcn.ws/2hGPwrW
8:14 AM - Oct 2, 2017
He apparently had no criminal record, and was 64 years old. He’d been staying in this hotel room since September 28. Police say he likely acted alone, and the Department of Homeland Security has no other information on other possible attacks. We cannot call this an act of “terror” technically until we know the motive. The jump to making policy based off such lack of information is stunning.
2. How The Shooter Acquired His Weapons Is Still Unknown. We still don’t know how the shooter acquired his guns. We know he had at least 10 guns in the room, and there is a real-time debate taking place regarding the nature of the weapon he used in the attack. Some say he had a fully automatic machine gun, which has been illegal to purchase in the United States for decades; grandfathered weapons were still allowed, but purchase of a weapon requires over $10,000 and a serious FBI background check. As Charles Cooke of National Review points out, legal automatic weapons have been used in a grand total of three crimes since 1934. Modifications to semiautomatic weapons are possible, but they require planning and aren’t always reliable. We need to know such information before we can determine policy. People aren’t waiting.
3. Making Policy On The Heels Of Horror Is Rarely Wise. Good policy is good regardless of timing; bad policy is bad regardless of timing. But when something horrific occurs, it’s in the interest of those pushing a related policy to suggest that those who oppose the policy somehow don’t care enough about victims. We heard this from gun control advocates after Sandy Hook, after Pulse, after Virginia Tech, after Columbine — after every mass shooting. Passion doesn’t make policy good or worthwhile. And injecting emotional accusations into the process never makes policy — or the country — better. Usually such accusations merely end with more heavy handed government policy that doesn’t actually achieve the end for which it supposedly aims.
All of which is to say, now is a good time to shut up. Now is a time to contemplate the nature of human evil, to gather information, and to stay silent. Now isn’t a time to push your favorite policy talking point, or to use people’s justifiable emotional response as gas in the tank for your legislative push. We have a republic, not a democracy, in order to separate emotion from policy. Let’s not fall into the trap of re-injecting it out of supposed moral righteousness. If your policy is a good one, it's still worth discussing without exploiting national heartbreak.
Las Vegas Shooter Set Up His Kill Center 300 Yards From His Victims
As thousands of country music fans partied Sunday night at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, an unseen presence watched from several hundred yards away and 32 floors up, where suspected gunman Stephen Paddock had transformed his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino into a kill center.
Dr. Darrin Porcher: "We have a shooter that was shooting from three football fields away." http://fxn.ws/2fKkoaa
Police found at least 10 rifles in Paddock’s hotel room, said Joseph Lombardo, the sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Paddock is believed to have shot himself as police used an explosive device to breach the door of his room, authorities said.
Police did not disclose Monday what specific type of weapons Paddock used in his attack. Police also could not explain how Paddock was able to bring so many weapons into the casino undetected.
Paddock had two platforms set up so that he could sight his targets blow, and also had cameras installed so that he could see first responders coming, according to media accounts.
“We have a shooter that was shooting from three football fields away,” Dr. Darrin Porcher said Monday on Fox & Friends.
First look at the 32nd floor where the shooter fired down onto the conert-goers http://fxn.ws/2wsswzt
9:43 AM - Oct 2, 2017
On Monday, dawn revealed shattered windows on the floor where police say Paddock fired down at concert-goers. At least 50 people were killed and over 400 more were taken to local hospitals.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer Randy Sutton said that smoke from the shooter’s weapons helped police to locate him.
“The way the shooter was identified was not from the muzzle flashes, but the smoke detector in the room went off from the amount of smoke that came from firing that fully automatic weapon,” Sutton told CBS This Morning.
Retired FBI special agent and former national FBI spokesman John Iannarelli said the attack was “obviously well-planned.”
Iannarelli also said the gunman used “expensive guns and ammunition.”
Paddock had begun his stay at the hotel on Sept. 28.
Before checking in, he lived in the suburbs around Mesquite, Nevada, near Arizona.
As of Monday morning, police do not know what the motive behind the shooting was.
“We have no idea what his belief system was,” Lombardo said of Paddock.
Puerto Rican Mayor Makes 1 Sick Admission That Changes Everything
BY CILLIAN ZEAL
When San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz went on TV this weekend and began ranting about how Puerto Ricans were “dying” and how the Trump administration wasn’t doing enough to help the island territory in the wake of Hurricane Maria, she instantly became a hero of the left — especially after the president critically tweeted back at her.
Major news agencies began running extensive profiles of her. Celebrities like Lin-Manuel Miranda and Lady Gaga began tweeting their support of Cruz and their contempt of the president. She instantly became the face of the new narrative — namely, that the Trump administration couldn’t care less about Puerto Rico.
However, on Sunday, a little problem emerged. While Cruz had spent most of the weekend vociferously complaining about the federal government’s disaster response, it turns out she has yet to even meet with the disaster response team.
The mayor made the admission during one of her multitudinous media appearances, this one on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” To his (rare) credit, Stephanopoulos actually pressed Cruz on what the administration has been saying about her lack of involvement in disaster relief efforts.
“The president’s FEMA director is suggesting you’re not really plugged in. Yesterday, he said you need to make your way to the joint field office and get plugged in to what’s going on,” Stephanopoulos said, according to The Daily Wire. “Have you been to the joint field office? And if not, why not?”
And, cue massive equivocation.
“Well, number one, I got a call from the White House a couple of days ago. I think it was Thursday. Mr. Bossert took it upon himself to call and I was very glad that he called. He seemed to be a very action-prone — a guy that does what he says and says what he does,” Cruz said.
“So we got appointed a FEMA coordinator. We have two people that are appointed to San Juan. We are the capital city, the largest city in Puerto Rico, with the most amount of population. And we got appointed just — direct links. So, actually, I was in FEMA the couple of days afterwards. When they were at the San Juan Marriott, I was invited to visit and we have been communicating ever since.
“Things have to be done in a sustained manner,” she continued. “If I only get for a population of 350,000 or perhaps half of them are in need of food and water, sustained supplies, then, you know, I get four pallets of food, three pallets of water, that’s really not even going to provide for a dent. The supply chain of aid has to be sustained. And we have the logistics in order to do that.”
“People from my administration, people from my administration have been to the — yes.”
In other words, she hasn’t been to those meetings, but “people from my administration” have been. Clearly this a priority for her.
While Cruz’s claims that the president had “abandoned” Puerto Rico had gotten plenty of uncritical play in the media, there was plenty of writing on the wall to indicate Cruz’s public pleas were nothing more than politics. Take FEMA Director Brock Long, who told CNN that the San Juan mayor hadn’t even reached out to the command center to coordinate efforts.
“The problem that we have with the mayor unfortunately is that unity of command is ultimately what’s needed to be successful in this response,” Long said.
If you don’t buy what a Trump administration official has to say, though, perhaps you’ll believe another Puerto Rican mayor. Guaynabo Mayor Angel Perez Otero told the Washington Examiner that, surprise surprise, Cruz has been absent in meetings with FEMA and military officials down in Puerto Rico.
“I’ve seen other mayors participating. She’s not,” Otero said.
But she sure finds enough time to be on TV, doesn’t she?
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