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applegrove

(118,793 posts)
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 08:56 PM Oct 2017

Friend of Vegas shooter says he was intelligent, conservative, guarded and devoted to gun rights

DAVID FERGUSON at Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/friend-of-vegas-shooter-says-he-was-intelligent-conservative-guarded-and-devoted-to-gun-rights/

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An Australian friend of Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock described the killer as passionately devoted to U.S. gun rights, but otherwise methodical, extremely intelligent and a “strategic” thinker, said The Guardian on Wednesday.

The man — who asked to remain anonymous — dated the sister of Paddock’s partner Marilou Danley, who has been declared a person of interest in the investigation of Sunday’s shooting, which killed 59 people and injured hundreds more.

“Yes, I was familiar with him,” said the man, speaking from his Brisbane home on Wednesday. “He was extremely intelligent, methodical, conservative — guarded — and strategic. A planning, thinking type of guy.”

The two men met on a half dozen occasions between 2013 and 2015. Paddock was a high-rolling gambler who lived a lavish lifestyle in the world of casinos, playing poker machines according to an algorithm of his own creation.

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Friend of Vegas shooter says he was intelligent, conservative, guarded and devoted to gun rights (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2017 OP
A nobody friend from Australia calls him intelligent and its news lunasun Oct 2017 #1
Devoted to gun rights... CatMor Oct 2017 #2
I. Don't. Give. A. Shit. Girard442 Oct 2017 #3
Agreed! Fuck that guy! Initech Oct 2017 #5
If highly intelligent, then perhaps ... GeorgeGist Oct 2017 #4

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
2. Devoted to gun rights...
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 09:01 PM
Oct 2017

so he could murder 58 people and injure 500 plus more. No one should have those rights.

Initech

(100,104 posts)
5. Agreed! Fuck that guy!
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 10:49 PM
Oct 2017

Mass murdering 59 people and injuring 500 trumps whatever humanity this asshole had.

GeorgeGist

(25,323 posts)
4. If highly intelligent, then perhaps ...
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 10:30 PM
Oct 2017

he figured out that gun humpers were fucking crazy and decided to prove it with the worst massacre in history.

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