Murdered by the millionaire sniper: Police officers, veterans, a hard-working mother-of-four, a minister's wife and a beloved high school football coach are among the 59 killed in the Las Vegas massacre

Lengthy article with photos and a brief story of each of those murdered, some of whose photos are here.

UK Daily Mail   "Police officers, veterans, medical workers, teachers, mothers and fathers are among the 59 people who were slain when a millionaire sniper started indiscriminately shooting at country music fans from his suite on the 32nd floor.

Stephen Paddock smashed out the windows of his Mandalay Bay hotel room in Las Vegas on Sunday and opened fire.

For 72 minutes he unfurled a horrific barrage of gunfire, while the helpless crowd ran for their lives. His sickening attack is the worst mass shooting in American history.  

"Christopher Roybal (left and right) was identified by his mother as the 25th victim. The military veteran served in Afghanistan & would've turned 29 years old next week"

He survives being killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan to be killed here by a millionaire sniper.

. . . "One witness at the concert told DailyMail.com that a woman had entered the crowd with a male companion and screamed 'They're all around... You're all going to f***ing die today' just 45 minutes before the gunfire broke out.

"The woman was described as being Hispanic and in her 50s; she and the man were escorted out of the venue by security. 

"Witness Breanna Hendricks, who was in Vegas celebrating her 21st birthday, said: 'There was a lady who came running up behind us in the concert and she started to play with people's hair acting crazy and she told us that we're all going to f***ing die.

" 'She said they're all around us and we were going to die,' continued Hendricks, whose mom Shawn Hendricks also witnessed the startling altercation.

" 'She was Hispanic, probably about 5ft 5, brown hair. It felt like she had knowledge of what was about to happen, her and her boyfriend who was also Hispanic.

" 'The woman was saying her boyfriend couldn't breathe so they could get through the crowd. 

" 'It seemed she was telling us to either warn us or she was part of it and she was telling us because she knew we were going to die, it was so scary.'

"It's not clear whether what she witnessed is related to the shooting or not." . . .

How will the families of the dead feel when they hear about these reactions from "Liberals"
They are happy, thinking those killed are Trump voters. Is it fair to suggest those celebrating the shootings are all Obama-Hillary lovers? 

Our Broken Obama Military Can’t Even Manage to Toss Out Traitors

. . . But they quake in their boots back home in the face of an enemy they don’t understand and that can destroy their careers – the Social Justice Warrior. That’s why you don’t see them saying what every damn one of them knows is true – that women, despite their heart and commitment, are a net liability in ground combat units, that trans troops are an expensive distraction and damaging to morale, and that the insane focus on “diversity” programs sucks up priceless training time and fuels, rather than quells, discord in the ranks.

Townhall

"After nearly a decade under President Faily McWorsethancarter, can our military win a fight with North Korea? Because if it is unable to perform the basic task of ensuring that the people commissioned to lead our troops in the defense of the United States are actually loyal to the United States, how the hell can we reasonably expect it to be able to conduct high-intensity combat operations against a Nork Army that prioritizes fighting over political correctness?

"We can’t.

"I don’t enjoy saying that – it gives me no pleasure to have to wonder whether the Army I served in both in active and reserve status for close to 28 years is broken. And it’s not just the Army. The Marines and the Special Ops community, well, they seem to be holding on to the standards the rest have forgotten, but the Navy and the Air Force – they’re broken too. Our military – in terms of strategy, equipment, and leadership, is in crisis. American troops will die if we don’t fix it.

"Hell, they already have." . . .

. . . You’ve seen the photo of this disgrace wearing a Che t-shirt under his uniform and showing it off. Question: Who took the photo? He was with other cadets so some other cadet saw it and did nothing – doesn’t West Point have an honor code, or is honor now a microaggression? Imagine how interested CNN and the Democrats would suddenly be if his undergarment icon was Hitler, or even Robert E. Lee, instead of the racist, gay-murdering dorm room darling of the campus commies." . . .

If a Liberal Whines with No One Around to Hear, Does He Make a Sound?

First, this case in point:  CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas ‘Because Country Music Fans Often Are Republican  
. . . "CBS has a history of hostility towards Republicans. Shortly after the attack on the GOP congressional baseball team gravely injuring Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise in June, former CBS anchor Scott Pelley questionedwhether the shooting was “foreseeable, predictable and to some degree, self-inflicted.”  

"The original thread was deleted, but not by Geftman-Gold." . . .

Teacher Prays That Only ‘Trumptards’ Were Killed In Las Vegas Terrorist Attack

American Thinker  "The left has a depressing message: racism, misogyny, greed, hate, communism, socialism, and the list goes on.  Americans have given these people a forum for decades, suffered through the angry speeches, the pompous lectures, the unending accusations and shaming.  And frankly, most people are sick of it.  They now go out of their way to avoid the liberal beatings. 

"As a result, liberals have trouble getting their message out.  Most people don't attend leftist rallies, they turn off programs where liberals rattle off their grievances, and they generally try to avoid the toxic left.  But liberals never take no for an answer, they always find another way to impose their will, to force us to listen. 

. . . 

Want to curl up with a good book?  Hopefully you can look at J.K. Rowling's or Stephen King's books without associating their novels with the authors' venomous tirades. 
Maybe you'd like to see a movie?  Good luck trying to immerse yourself in the plot when the lead character – Jennifer Lawrence, George  Clooney,Meryl Streep, or another activist star – just delivered a political screed. . . . 
Maybe you'll just watch the Emmy's or the Oscars.  But alas, more of the same: hate on display, a shameless pile-on to insult, demean, and slander the president and other conservatives.  Entire shows dedicated to tantrums and spite.
Enjoy a latte at Starbucks?  Not without a shot of politics.  Starbucks's CEO promised to hire 10,000 refugees to refute the president's travel ban, publicly supported redefining marriage, declared Starbucks's U.S. stores gun-free zones, and launched the "Race Together" campaign in response to Ferguson's fake news.  Tough to get away from political firestorms even for a cup of java.  

. . . "And now they've tainted football, the last bastion of Americana. "

"The football player who started this NFL cluster, Colin Kaepernick, is blatantly anti-American.  He wore socks depicting pigs in police hats, sat out the National Anthem, and defended Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to a South Florida reporter. 

"Colin didn't deny that his protest was against the flag.  He flat-out admitted it. "  . . .

But there is - sometimes - a happy ending:

CBS Executive Fired for ‘No Sympathy’ Comments About Las Vegas Shooting  "Geftman-Gold wrote in a Facebook post comment how she didn't have any hope that Republicans, "Repugs," would "ever do the right thing," and that she isn't sympathetic to the shooting victims because country music fans are often "Republican gun toters." The Daily Caller was the first to report on her comments."

"This Is Why ISIS Took Responsibility For The Las Vegas Shooting" So they say, that is.

BuzzFeed

Experts say the group is trying to counter its diminished status by playing up its reputation to its remaining followers.

 

"ISIS’s claim of responsibility for the Las Vegas shooting was driven less by a desire to strike fear into the US than wanting to show its supporters that it remains relevant, experts say, dismissing the the militant group’s claim that it had influenced the shooter in the months beforehand.

"US officials, including the FBI and Las Vegas sheriff's department, have said they have no evidence to tie the shooting, which was carried out by 64-year-old Stephen Paddock and left more than 50 people dead, to ISIS. "We have determined to this point no connection with an international terrorist group," FBI investigator Aaron Rouse told reporters Monday.

"But the group has doubled down on its claim — releasing a statement and video, even going so far as to provide an alleged nom de guerre used by Paddock.

"If no evidence emerges to show that Paddock really was an ISIS agent, there’s no shortage of reasons for ISIS to lay claim to the attack. ISIS currently has a "faltering brand," said Herbie Tinsley, a researcher with the University of Maryland's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), and that could have spurred them to jump on the news from Las Vegas." . . . 

This is what ISIS does, isn't it?

 . . . "By 3pm local time, Clark County Coroner John Fundenberg said that all of the confirmed fatalities had 'been recovered and transported to our office'.

"As of Monday evening, the casualty count stood at 527 injured and 59 dead. It was unclear whether the number of dead included Paddock, who killed himself as police breached his 32nd-floor sniper's nest. " . . .

"Blood stains and medical trauma treatment supplies lie in the street in the aftermath of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Las Vegas Boulevard."

California's Latest Bad Idea — Outlaw Gas-Powered Cars

Investor's Business Daily   "Global Warming: California is considering a ban on the sale of gasoline-powered cars. If state officials go this route, it will have little effect on CO2 emissions, but will harm consumers and kill California's economy.

"The head of the California Air Resources Board told Bloomberg News that the state is seriously looking into whether and how to make internal combustion engine cars illegal in the state, as part of its self-imposed plan to cut state CO2 emissions in 2050 to 80% of what it emitted in 1990.

"That follows announcements over the summer that the UK and France will try to ban the sale of gas- and diesel-powered cars by 2040. More recently, China claims it will impose a ban in 2030.

"The CARB's Mary Nichols says California could implement such a ban in 13 years, and one state lawmaker plans to introduce a bill that would enforce it in 2040.

"To put it bluntly, this is one of the most ill-conceived public policy ideas in a state that seems to have them in abundance.

"First, some perspective.

"According to the EPA, all transportation — cars, trucks, planes, trains and boats — are responsible for about a quarter of the nation's CO2 emissions. The share contributed by passenger cars alone is considerably smaller than that. In the European Union, for example, cars account for 12% of CO2 emissions.

"California's move would make no noticeable dent in global CO2 emissions. Plus, it would take well over a decade before the entire car fleet turned over to all electric." . . .

Witness Describes Being Warned Before Attack: 'You're All Going to Die'

Leah Barkoukis  "Some concertgoers were reportedly warned about the shooting at a Route 91 Harvest country music festival, which left at least 50 dead and more than 400 injured so far.

"According to one witness, a woman taunted some concertgoers about 45 minutes before the attack that they were “all going to die.”

“ 'She had been messing with a lady in front of her and telling her she was going to die, that we were all going to die,” the witness told local news about the woman, who had pushed her way to the front of the venue.

“ 'They escorted her out to make her stop messing around with all the other people, but none of us knew it was going to be serious.' ” . . .

China openly discussing collapse of North Korea

By Thomas Lifson at American Thinker   "China has sent an unmistakable signal that Kim Jong-un had better not rely on the historic alliance between China and North Korea to resist President Trump's demands.  In fact, as he dallies with his troop of teen sex slaves, he had better keep in mind that Beijing is wondering what it might be like with the Kim dynasty out of the way.

"The Chinese way of delivering such a harsh message is to use a third party – preferably one without a policy role, but who clearly speaks for the ruling elite.  Someone, for instance, like the dean of international studies at Beijing University (the Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford of China)." . . .

Yalu River bridges from China into North Korea

. . . China has long supported North Korea because it serves as a buffer from US troops stationed in South Korea, but Barthelemy Courmont, a China specialist at the Institute of Strategic and International Relations in Paris, said Pyongyang's downfall could be good for Beijing, especially economically.
"China now believes that a collapse of North Korea would not necessarily be to its disadvantage," Courmont said.
"If North Korea were to fall in a peaceful way, China would be best positioned for its reconstruction. China is the only country capable of overseeing the reconstruction of North Korea," he said.

. . .

 . . . "This sounds more like good cop/bad cop than outright conflict.  As with President Reagan, Trump is regarded as a bit of a madman, who might just start a nuclear war.  Even Kim Jong-un understands that North Korea cannot win such a conflict.  But now, the old passivity and delay that characterized American policy toward North Korea for the past three decades is over."

Puerto Rico Enters the 'Great American Victim Derby'

PJ Media  "Seems like everyone's a victim in the USA these days, from college "snowflakes" who can't abide someone with views unlike theirs within miles of their campuses to allegedly assaulted women wearing sexually explicit hats to multi-millionaire football players who are sure there's something wrong but can't always remember what it is (other than Donald Trump).  The latest of the many entries in this "Great American Victim Derby" is Puerto Rico -- or at least a significant part of the island's leadership.

"Who will win this derby?

"It's anybody's guess, but the thing about playing the victim game is that even -- perhaps especially -- when you do win, you're even more likely to continue to be a victim and play some more.  Victimhood is self-perpetuating -- a spiritual, emotional, political, and economic rerun out of the movie "Groundhog Day."

Every year it's the same thing and nothing changes.   Something bad happens and there you go again, drinking from the trough until you pass out like a fraternity boy being hazed for the thousandth time.

"Why not try something different for a change -- like taking responsibility?

"Are you listening, Puerto Rico?" . . .

N.F.L. Anthem Protests: Players Kneel, Stand and Hear Boos

NY Times  How fans responded on week 4

Liberation Sunday – Has the NFL surrendered?  "They asked us to choose sports heroes over country, and most people chose country."

. . . "The protests were as much about Trump as about racial justice, and that was before Trump even commented.

"Much like the media attempt to turn Houston, then Florida, and now Puerto Rico into Trump’s Katrina, there is nothing honest about how the media treats such disputes. Every event is twisted and turned to try to make it Trump’s Katrina, the defining event in which a passive president allows the media to freeze his presidency. Bush never recovered from the false blame placed on him by the media and Democrats for the failed Katrina response by local authorities, particularly in New Orleans.

"Trump could have sat back and seen a major, perhaps THE major, sports institution weaponized against him as part of #TheResistance, or he could have hit back.

"I’ll grant you, in a better world a president wouldn’t and shouldn’t respond to player protests in the way Trump did. But it’s not a better world. It’s a world in which there has been a sustained attempt to undo the election starting on election night, through Electoral College voting, into the Inauguration and the contrived Women’s March(es), and daily since then.

"The players protest cannot be viewed in isolation." . . .

How Every NFL Team’s Fans Lean Politically   . . . "Among the sports leagues we considered, the NFL had the most search traffic and the least partisan fan base. There is basically no correlation³between how Democratic or Republican an area is and how often its residents made NFL-related searches. By comparison, NASCAR has a very Republican fan base, which may explain why its team officials have been outspoken against the NFL protests. The NBA, meanwhile, has a largely left-leaning following, and the responses by its players and coaches have been especially critical of Trump.⁴

"Making matters more difficult for the NFL is that some teams are based in Democratic areas and others in Republican areas:" . . .

Baltimore Ravens suffer joint-worst defeat in their franchise history after Jacksonville Jaguars hand them Wembley Stadium thrashing

. . . " 'We knelt with them today. Nonviolent protest is as American as it gets. We knelt with them today and let them know we are a unified front. There is no dividing us. I guess we're all sons of bitches.'

"Veteran receiver Mike Wallace added: 'Sometimes when you feel things go too far, you have to make a statement.' 'I felt strongly about it. I will always back Kaepernick and the message that he sent.

" 'After yesterday, it went too far. I just felt strongly about it today. So I did what I did. I didn't need anybody to tell me yes, no, whatever. That was just the way I felt. When I walked out on the field, some of my other teammates felt the same I did. So we did what we did.' " . . .

Forum: What's Dumber? The NFL Knee Or Refusing Free Books From The First Lady?

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Every week on Monday, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher's Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week's question,courtesy of Don Surber: What's Dumber? The NFL Knee Or Refusing Free Books From The First Lady?

 Rob Miller:You can't make this stuff up.

"The NFL commissioner and the team owner's refusal to rein in their pampered millionaires from disrespecting flag and country and obey NFL rules has already affected TV ratings, game attendance, and sales of NFL merchandise. It's even costing NFL games TV and radio sponsors as what amounts to an NFL boycott by their fan base spreads.

"Don Surber's Question calls for a comparison..to this.

"First Lady Melania Trump loved reading Dr. Seuss books to her son Baron when he was small, and the books themselves have long been associated with helping children learn to read and improving children's literacy.Even the National Education Association’s annual “Read Across America” day — when cities and towns across the country host events to celebrate reading — is on March 2, Seuss’s birthday. So the First Lady decided to purchase a complete set of the beloved books and sent the set as a gift to the librarian of the Cambridgeport School in Massachusetts, one Liz Phipps Soeiro.

"Soeiro not only refused the gift, but wrote a rude screed to the First Lady,criticizing Trump administration education policies and calling the pictures in the books “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.”

"I suppose that means President and Michele Obama are racists too, what with all the times they read Dr. Seuss to school kids.

"She also accused the First Lady of using the 'racist' gift to brainwash children. Which makes this nasty little attention whore a major hypocrite:" . . .

Ex-Flight Attendant Suing Airline, Union For Religious Discrimination

Hot Air

. . . "Charlene Carter was terminated in March, allegedly because she made a number of Facebook posts opposing abortion and sent messages to the president of the TWU local. Her messages included complaints that dues money had been used to fly union representatives to Washington for the Women’s March early this year. (Free Beacon) . . .

"Sometimes these cases can be hard to prove when you’re claiming wrongful termination, but Carter’s employer specifically cited her pro-life messages as being, “highly offensive in nature.” They also referenced her messages directed to Stone, describing them as, “harassing and inappropriate.” Stone may have felt harassed, but when the complaints are directly related to your handling of union funds that sounds like the sort of complaint you’re supposed to take seriously, investigate and respond to. It’s also a hot topic right now because the Supreme Court is preparing to hear some cases involving the mandatory collection of union dues and the politically slanted uses those funds are put toward regardless of the opinions of the members." . . .

At Least 50 Dead, More Than 400 Hurt in Las Vegas Concert Attack: Updated

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Update that you might expect: Islamic State claims Las Vegas attack, says shooter converted to Islam months ago, but provides no evidence

Washington Free Beacon   LAS VEGAS, Nevada (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed and more than 400 injured when a gunman opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, raining down bullets from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before he was shot dead by police.

"The death toll, which police emphasized was preliminary, would make the attack the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, eclipsing last year's massacre of 49 people at an Orlando night club.

"Some 22,000 people were in the crowd when the man opened fire, sending panicked people fleeing the scene, in some cases trampling one another, as law enforcement officers scrambled to locate and kill the gunman. Shocked concert goers, some with blood on their clothes, wandered the streets after the attack.

"At least 406 people were taken to area hospitals with injuries, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said.

"Police identified the gunman as area resident Stephen Paddock, 64, and said they had no information yet about his motive.

"He was not believed to be connected to any militant group, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters.

" 'We have no idea what his belief system was," Lombardo said. "We've located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied."

"Authorities had earlier regarded Paddock's roommate, Marilou Danley, as a person of interest, but later on Monday said they no longer regarded her as related to the case, CNN and Fox News reported, citing police sources.

"Police had located two cars that belonged to the suspect.

"The dead included one off-duty police officer, Lombardo said. Two on-duty officers were injured, including one who was in stable condition after surgery and one who sustained minor injuries, Lombardo said. Police warned the death toll may rise." . . .  (UK Daily Mail photos)

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