Sunday night, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock killed 59 people and injured more than 500 others from a 32nd Floor hotel room and few hundred yards from a country band concert in Las Vegas. Police were able to breach the door to his room and when they did, Paddock killed himself. I waited sometime for the noise to quiet down and to let the hot air of the media cleanse the BS out of the story. <\/p>\n
For example, ISIS claimed that Paddock was a recent convert to Islam, but there’s no evidence of that. Folks on the Right scrubbed Facebook looking for ways to blame the Left for brain-washing Paddock, but all they did was further muddy the waters. They’ve posted pictures they say are Paddock wearing a vagina hat, but all of you old white guys look alike to me. It’s a jungle out there.<\/p>\n
Google and Facebook were working overtime<\/a> yesterday to clear out the fake news from their news search feeds.<\/p>\n It looks like Paddock was just someone with a lot of money (he had 24 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition in his room and 19 other guns at home) who liked guns and for some reason that’s unexplained so far, decided to blast away out the window of his room at a large crowd of concert-goers, and he’d been planning it for several days, while his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, was outside the country.<\/p>\n Some heroes arose out of the mess, like Army veteran Robert Ledbetter<\/a> who helped to treat many of the wounded around him. <\/p>\n There was Sunny Melton, a 29-year-old nurse from Tennessee who was killed protecting his wife an orthopedic surgeon when he was shot in the back. From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n Los Angeles fire captain, Mark McCurdy, was attending the concert with his wife and sister-in-law and managed to carry his injured in-law back to their room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel before turning around and heading back out to help others. His friend, fellow firefighter Steve Keys, was shot in the chest and wounded while performing CPR on another victim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Some zeroes arose from the mess, too, like “Almost SEAL” Instagram star, Dan Bilzerian who we’ve written about before<\/a>, but he drew the ire<\/a> of Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyers when Bilzerian couldn’t summon the fortitude to help the wounded while he was filming himself running from the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"