I've been thinking about the Trump Las Vegas attack [View all]

[jmowreader]

The Authorities have convinced Tesla to provide tracking data on the car the guy used to do this. It seems that he drove past the building a few times before he went in and set the bomb off. Maybe working up the nerve to do it? Elon Musk provided the Vegas sheriff with video off Superchargers he used in his trip from Colorado to Vegas, which helped them ID the guy. Once they figured out he was in the Army it would have been really easy to get an exact ID because the Army started collecting soldiers’ DNA in the 1990s to aid them in casualty identification. The Army says there are more than enough people in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington and they’ve done everything they can think of to be sure no one else gets put in it.

The Vegas sheriff says the damage was minimized by the fact the guy used a Cybertruck in his attack. I don’t think that’s quite right…explosive blasts take the path of least resistance so any pickup would have given the same result.

So…if he was trying to actually trash the place he would have driven the truck through the doors into the lobby before firing his improvised explosive device.

Now…why fireworks? You can GET fireworks, that’s why. Colorado has reservations, and on those reservations they sell fireworks before New Year’s Eve. If you want any high explosives you need a blasting license to buy that material, but the local tribe will happily sell you commercial display fireworks.

The person who did this was a Green Beret when Trump was in office the first time. I wonder if maybe he lost teammates on a Trump-era deployment and wanted to make Trump feel some of his pain.