AmmoLand – by Dean WeingartenArizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Mass shooting situations trigger a tsunami of public emotion, so there are enormous incentives for politically correct reporters to “interpret” them in certain ways for political purposes. They are often complex events that take time and careful investigation to unravel. In the recent shooting in Las Vegas, two police officers and a concealed carry permit holder were killed by the two attackers, who also died.
The last three deaths occurred in a Wal-Mart, which, I am told, has some of the most complete surveillance camera systems of U.S. retail establishments.
Initial stories did not include mention of the fact that the victim killed in the Wal-Mart was a legally armed citizen. Later stories mentioned that he was attempting to stop the attackers when he was killed; it was implied that his action was futile. Initial police reports claimed that the attackers had committed suicide.
Authorities had earlier said the woman shot and killed her husband before taking her own life. But Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters Wednesday that a review of forensic evidence at the scene and autopsy results showed that police fatally wounded the gunman.“We made a determination that she did not shoot him. He did suffer a gunshot wound, and we believe the entrance wound was here,” McMahill said, pointing to his own collarbone.
After gunning down the officers, Jerad and Amanda Miller ran to a nearby Walmart, police said, where they killed a bystander before barricading themselves inside the store during a firefight with responding officers.
At the end of the article the writer includes this statement from the police spokesperson, Assistant Chief McMahill:
“He was carrying a concealed weapon, and he immediately and heroically moved toward the position of Jerad Miller. Upon completing that action, he did not realize that Amanda Miller was with Jerad Miller,” McMahill said.
The change in the story from the male attacker being shot by his wife, and then committing suicide, to him being fatally shot by police, has prompted at least one person to wonder if Joseph Wilcox might have wounded the male attacker. From sfgate.com, commenter porkupine writes:
First they said the wife shot the husband at walmart. Now they are saying cops shot him and the wife shot her self, and only now are they saying a concealed permit carrier “confronted them”. You know what I think? I think that the concealed permit citizen shot the husband, then the wife shot the concealed carrier. The concealed guy stopped a potentially huge shooting spree but the anti gun mainstream media doesn’t people to know that
One of the early reports from the Las Vegas Review Journal stated:
One unconfirmed report is that the two exchanged gunfire with a citizen who was carrying a concealed weapon, and that one of the shooters was injured.
There is a clear bias in the old media to downplay successful citizen defensive uses of guns. John Lott wrote an entire book about it, so it is easy to understand the skepticism embodied in porukpine’s comment. The Las Vegas police have also earned considerable skepticism about their ability to investigate shootings, especially after all the Costco footage of the shooting of another concealed carry permit holder, Eric Scott, was never recovered. The Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote a book devoted to criticism of Las Vegas police shooting investigations.
The police acknowledge that they have voluminous videotape of the incident from store cameras.
McMahill said investigators were reviewing a “tremendous” amount of graphic video of the suspects during the rampage.“The video shows you exactly how vicious and coldblooded these murderers were,” he said.
In the interest of transparency, and to nip any questions about a “coverup”, the police should release all of the video to the public. We have often seen how, when only select snippets of video are released, as in the Rodney King affair, those snippets can be completely misleading.
In these days of online video, there is no reason not to release the entire footage.
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What I like to think of as a kaleidoscopic story. Ever changing, and just when you think they’ve ‘turned’ in the final version, up pops another ‘twist’.
Or two.
Or three.
A lie is, a lie, is a lie. does not matter how many time the story changes. this was another setup to negatively affect the image of patriots and gun-owners.
the miller duo were informants for the feds, and infiltrated the bundy ranch situation. the proof of that is the male- jerad miller and his multiple interviews in national television reports(staged). more proof is that they were outed by sharp observers at the bundy ranch for their aggressive tone and ideaologys and asked to leave.(agent provocateurs are the ones who typically foment violent and aggressive actions be perpetrated within these patriot groups)
If you look at the brief video released by the nevada police/sheriff, you may notice there are no muzzle
flashes from the gun fight, nor are there any shell casings bouncing around from being ejected from the semi-auto they were all using. the video angle of the
last shoot out in the aisles is completely wrong for the ceiling mounted camera system used by walmart. walmart does NOT use eye/waist level cameras
as the camera angle reveals.
If one also carefully reviews all personnel milling about in the parking lot after the “shoot-out” one can see they all have the requisite water bottle and special security badge of a mock training drill which has been used as political propaganda tool.
“A lie is, a lie, is a lie.”
Naturally. That’s a given concerning anything coming from the so-called ‘government’, or the Zionist controlled media.
What was your point?
Considering the New York fiasco, it is more likely that Wilcox was shot by the police, either by accident, ricochet or because he had a firearm.