'Cold-Blooded Mowing' of Victims Seen in Surveillance Video From Pulse Nightclub

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: ABC News

Federal authorities have recovered video from security cameras inside Orlando's Pulse nightclub that shows shooter Omar Mateen firing his assault rifle and systematically killing innocent victims, sources told ABC News.

The violence depicted in the video can only be described as "cold-blooded mowing, walking through the rooms mowing people down," one source said.

Sources characterized the video -- pulled from cameras deployed in multiple rooms of the nightclub -- as chilling and unnerving. The video portrays Mateen as a relentless assassin, reloading his weapon more than once as he murdered his victims.

The video could prove critical in helping law enforcement understand precisely how the killing took place.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/cold-blooded-mowing-victims-surveillance-video-pulse-nightclub/story?id=39942771

[yardwork]

1. This is the problem with private citizens owning semi-automatic weapons.

[HarmonyRockets]

2. I wonder if this footage will be released for the public to see?

[Kelvin Mace]

3. It will get out somehow

Violence is the new porn.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. I think it should be released...

the people need to see what havoc is being reeked by our lax gun laws. Seeing footage of the Viet Nam war helped to end it, and now the military will not allow such footage to be release, because it sways opinion in a way the war mongers don't like.

[Kelvin Mace]

15. Again, violence is the new porn

It will horrify people who oppose gun control and be laughed at by ammosexuals.

When children were slaughtered we, as a country, shrugged.

[HarmonyRockets]

20. I don't know if I'd say "new"

[7962]

4. If my family was in there, I wouldnt want it released.

We all know what happened.
Of course theres always those who say there was more than one shooter. For them, even if you release the video they'll say its fake

[msongs]

5. this video will be a big hit among millions of people nt

[Aristus]

7. They'll be crowing about the fast-reload capacity.

And renewing their daydreams that someday, somone will break into their house, and they can unload, Rambo-style, on them...

[LoverOfLiberty]

6. I don't want to see it

but it might give us some idea why, during reload, there was no around that could stop him.

[Initech]

8. It will certainly discredit the NRA's "good guy with a gun" theory.

There's no way any civilian could have stopped that with any kind of gun.

[passiveporcupine]

17. What did they expect

Of course he mowed them down. It's the only way he couldn't be stopped. And reloading with a magazine takes seconds if he practiced it. And I'm sure he did.

This is not news, and I hope it doesn't get released to the public. It will only encourage more attacks like this.

[toshiba783]

23. It probably would have been nearly impossible to stop him

Wasn't he wearing ceramic plated body armor (which can withstand significant gunfire)?

[sanatanadharma]

9. Violence is the new porn...

...but one still has to go looking for it online.

Daesh shit never pops up on my computer and I don't look for it.

Looking for shit shows the preexisting condition of already being a radically shitty human being.
GIGO One is what one eats!

Sadly, there are armed misanthropes* around who shove their sick selves on civilized society and so some sweet souls see other souls shot up in schools
Stores
Clubs
Classrooms
Work spaces
Play spaces
Chicago, Des Moines
Shall I keep going

*Fascination with weapons People ought be like this NOT this

[Bluenorthwest]

10. No one in this thread discusses the evidence the article speaks of all the comments are about

how someday in the future this evidence will get out of Federal hands and be widely watched. Anything but discuss the actual crime, that's DU's tactic.

[csziggy]

12. Will it ever be released? It's not as though there will be a trial

In which case it would become part of the public record. Does evidence in a case that does not go to trial ever have to come out.

It should be studied by those who need to understand this sort event so they can try to prevent things like it in the future. But there is no compelling reason (in my opinion) that this video should ever be made public for sick people to obsess over.

[geek tragedy]

11. make it public, show the gun doing what it was designed to do, kill mass numbers of human beings

people only see these guns in action when they're at firing ranges or in movies.

show the truth, show the innocent human beings being slaughtered because that weapon was doing exactly what it's supposed to do.

[Mojorabbit]

21. People watch movies depicting the same thing

and think nothing of it. We have glorified violence enough in this country. Let these people rest in peace.

[brett_jv]

24. They think little or nothing of it because they know it's staged ...

I've watched countless gory scenes in horror movies with absurd levels of violence, and at the end of the day it's just entertainment ... because I know it's fake. All those people went home at the end of the day.

Yet I remember having to leave the theater and go sit in the bathroom, afraid I was going to throw up, when I watched Born on the 4th of July .. when Cruise's Vietnam Vet character falls when trying to get up from his wheelchair and suffers a compound femur fracture, and they show the bone ripped through his pants.

WHY? Even though I knew what I was watching wasn't 'real' in the technical sense, I knew 'it really happened'. And that was enough to make the scene hit me like a ton of bricks, despite having seen 1000's of WAY gorier things in my movie-going life.

If it was ACTUALLY real, what I was watching? Holy crap ...

I'm not saying 'release the video' but if it DID get released, and it was 'detailed'? It would have a pretty major impact on the vast majority of people seeing it. Yeah, we're desensitized to FAKE violence, but the real thing? A LOT of people haven't actually seen all that much of it in their lives.

IOW, there's still a LOT of people who'd 'think something of it', believe me.

[DonRedwood]

13. I can't believe I feel this way--but I support releasing the video

Which I realize is cruel and heartbreaking to the families. But I listened to that snapchat post from a young lady in the club and just hearing the speed of the shooting--15 or 16 shots in just a few seconds--put the terror of that night into perspective. If the public had to watch what those weapons really do they would not want them on their streets. Why should the government protect us from seeing what our policies are doing to people? Instead the media shows the shooter in his own selfies--the pictures that he thought were his best shots, where he looked his best. Maybe we need to see that action and not the person for a change.

[passiveporcupine]

18. There is a serious risk

that even if those of us who are sane are horrified by it, those who are wanting to follow in his footsteps to even greater glory, will be inspired by it. I don't think it should be released. It would be like porn to those who are inspired, and they will watch it until they decide they can do better. It will be a challenge to them to take out even more next time.

No...please for dogs sake, don't release it.

Even if we pass an assault weapon ban, there are too many already out there and they will find them.

We don't have a registry to try to collect them all.

[Ash_F]

22. This is a good point. The guy has already gotten too much attention.

[maxsolomon]

16. Make it mandatory viewing when purchasing a Semi-Automatic Weapon. All 2 hours.

Or applying for a CC Permit.

Like, say, a video detailing the more visceral aspects of Abortion that is mandatory viewing for women seeking that medical procedure.

I don't see how that would infringe on one's RKBA.

[passiveporcupine]

19. I seriously doubt that would affect anyone

who wants to buy that kind of a weapon. They already have problems to think they need a gun like that.

OK...I have one condition in which it might be OK. For each person wanting a gun like that, the video has to be modified so the faces of the victims are faces of his/her immediate family/loved ones.

Then...maybe then it would make them think twice...but I doubt it.