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hack89

(39,171 posts)
1. It sounded like a true automatic weapon
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:03 AM
Oct 2017

if that is the case, then it makes sense. Over 500 rounds a minute can do a lot of damage.

Zoonart

(11,832 posts)
5. A lot of injuries were caused during
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:07 AM
Oct 2017

the panic to get out of the area. There was a stampede. I would not be surprised if a lot of the injuries are broken bones, contusions and sprains among the more serious and possible gun shot wounds.

atreides1

(16,066 posts)
2. With the kind of weapon he used
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:05 AM
Oct 2017

Full automatic, either drum or belt fed...or he used more then one weapon!

hatrack

(59,574 posts)
3. Full-auto weapons, or something close to them . .
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:06 AM
Oct 2017

Throw in a big, dense crowd of people enjoying a music festival and a firing position some stories above that, and yeah, that's how one person does it.

The real American Exceptionalism - our global performance in mass-casualty shootings really is exceptional.

barbtries

(28,769 posts)
11. I am so shook up by this.
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:24 AM
Oct 2017

and so frustrated. it just does not have to be this way.

i'm not sure i will go to work.

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smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with guns or how easy it is for people
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:27 AM
Oct 2017

to obtain them in this country. It must be something else.

hatrack

(59,574 posts)
13. There must be some dysfunction deep within the white community that caused the gunman . . .
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:29 AM
Oct 2017

Oh, oops, sorry! Wrong script!

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