“Occam’s Razor”: The simplest explanation is the most likely.
The perpetrator was smarter, wealthier and born at a great time / place to utilize his skills.
However, he had no love in his life, no descendants, no religion. It was an empty life.
As he aged, he became aware of physical decline and that his best days were over.
He also thought he could beat the house: the corporations that run gambling in Nevada. Hubris does this. After all, he’s rich when many others are struggling. Why not prove it by taking money from MGM, Caesar’s, Wynn etc.
When this failed, and his cash runs out, take it out on MGM in a blaze of violence.
This event will cost the industry a billion dollars by the time it is over. MGM will be blamed. The whole industry must insure and protect. Visitors will shun for a while.
He beat the house, and died trying.
Simple.
I think that points preciptously toward the truth. Also, his girlfriend factors in there somewhere. She dumped him (probably because she saw the rapid downward slope of his trajectory) and that was the trigger that fast-tracked his activities.
For 600 casualties, 60 dead? Way low.
$10B easy.
Everything you said and add in a likely descent into mental illness and I think that’s the story.
I read that he was on winning spree.
#3. Very good “possible” explanation of who the shooter was, mentally.
However, I want to add that the shooter might also have been in the process of viewing the world as his enemy, esp. since he was basically a longer and loser at gambling.
Thus his shooting at the concert-goers was an attack on “society” itself, and the people, in his psychotic/sociopathic viewing tunnel, were no longer fellow human beings but merely targets representing a society he resented.
He knew the area well, like any good hunter, and he knew when the helpless prey would be there, and he acted.