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he Las Vegas Mass Murderer's Motive: A Psychoanalyst Explains
American Thinker.com ^ | August 4, 2019 | he Las Vegas Mass Murderer's Motive: A Psychoanalyst Explains

Posted on 08/04/2019 6:43:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

On October 1, 2017, America was stunned by the horrible mass murder in Las Vegas. The lengthy search for the murder's motive most likely ends in the bitter unconscious severe neurotic conflicts of Stephen Paddock's troubled mind. His obsessive-compulsively planned mass murder seemed intended to make his father's life of petty crime look like peanuts in comparison. Psychodynamically, Paddock’s horrendous act was an ultimate fantasied oedipal victory. As noted by Dave Phillips and Mathew Haag’s perceptive New York Times article of October 2, 2017, Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, Stephen Paddock’s father, was a grifter, con artist, bank robber and jail-breaker who spent years on the FBI’s most wanted list.


Stephen Paddock's 2010 passport

On the surface, Stephen Paddock’s record had not a hint of criminality until his ghastly mass murder. As many narcissistic criminals do, however, Stephen Paddock thought he would get away with his record-breaking lone career -- crime. Stephen likely fantasied that his ultimate powerful crime would dwarf his father’s failed life of small-fry crimes. In his unconsciously motivated final neurotic act, Stephen would try to resolve the inner smoldering life-long shame and humility caused by his father’s more than embarrassing arrest

Stephen Paddock’s severe neurosis and neurotic character disorder was behind his horrible mass murder. Not a brain tumor, not substance abuse, not genetics, but rather, psychodynamics of a neurosis. Neurosis is not always merely mild anxiety that responds to supportive psychotherapy and tranquilizers. Neurosis can occur in CEOs of major businesses, world leaders with control of nuclear bombs, and mass murderers.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; lasvegas; paddock
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1 posted on 08/04/2019 6:43:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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It’s amazing:

We know more about the San Antonio shooter after just 2 hours than we know about the Las Vegas shooter in 2 years.

To me that says the US government was somehow involved, even if not by intention.

I think the guy was an agent who got burned by baddies.


2 posted on 08/04/2019 6:46:06 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Kaslin

On the surface, Stephen Paddock’s record had not a hint of criminality until his ghastly mass murder.

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He was a pedophile and so was his brother. His father was on the FBI’s most wanted list for years.


3 posted on 08/04/2019 6:46:31 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: Kaslin

What ever really happened there is being covered up big time. There are many aspects of the official narrative that don’t check out.


4 posted on 08/04/2019 6:46:33 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Kaslin

This article is a total white-wash, a complete red herring.


5 posted on 08/04/2019 6:46:59 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

We know more about the San Antonio shooter after just 2 hours than we know about the Las Vegas shooter in 2 years.

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Look at Paddock’s Wiki page.


6 posted on 08/04/2019 6:47:10 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: Kaslin
Ah. So, "psycho-analysis" is apparently quack-speak for excuse-making.

The real mental illness being exhibited is on the part of those who run for political office on gun control and those who vote for them.

7 posted on 08/04/2019 6:49:24 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin

Why are we appropriately intolerant of a Yale psychiatrist assessing Donald Trump “from a distance,” yet we countenance articles like these?


8 posted on 08/04/2019 6:54:25 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Kaslin

THERE IS STILL something fishy about this.

We know everything about the last 2 shooters this past month and years later we are still ‘analyzing’ Paddock.


9 posted on 08/04/2019 6:56:45 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Moonman62
Look at Paddock’s Wiki page.

His official employment history reads just like the boring, bland, vanilla covers that utterly typify field operatives. His employment history consists either of gummint or big companies that can't say no to a gummint request to provide official cover for an operative.

The only cover that would jump out more would be something like Ag Attache posted to a US Embassy in a Denied Area or somewhere really shady.

AirplaneS, $5 million and 3 apartment buildings, all because when he switched to working for himself, he was a successful, long-term VIDEO GAMBLER..?

Wow, that's just baffling. It's extreeemely suspicious.

It sounds like Epstein being an amazing investing genius, who by some weird quirk is utterly unkwown at any Wall Street trading desk cuz "he did EVERYTHING, did all the analysis and trades personally." The US today is just filled to the brim with total lies.

10 posted on 08/04/2019 7:01:39 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Mr. K

He was just the fall guy.


11 posted on 08/04/2019 7:04:34 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: gaijin

If you look at property/assets and his reported work, it doesn’t add up, unless his main function in life was to laundry money.


12 posted on 08/04/2019 7:07:02 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: gaijin

Get this guy working on the Kennedy assassination, pronto.


13 posted on 08/04/2019 7:09:13 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: pepsionice

Arms dealer, the Phillipines connection...something smells.


14 posted on 08/04/2019 7:10:38 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Kaslin

I think this article is leaning in the right direction: mental illness is the cause of mass shootings; not guns, parents, television, games.


15 posted on 08/04/2019 7:17:13 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Just because you THINK it, doesn't make it so.)
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https://story.californiasunday.com/las-vegas-shooting


16 posted on 08/04/2019 7:17:19 AM PDT by gaijin
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It sounds like Epstein being an amazing investing genius,

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I recently read that Epstein’s key to riches was his tax avoidance strategies for himself and his clients.


17 posted on 08/04/2019 7:22:32 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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Need to have a crisis actor play his bro, but then later that guy needs to return to his life, right? Oh! Just "arrest" him cuz he's this biiiig bad molester who belongs in jail. Oh, so sorry..! He got killed in jail! Oh well, I guess the perp no longer has any living relatives, tough luck, investigators..!

18 posted on 08/04/2019 7:27:46 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: beachn4fun

Actually, it’s the response to mental illness. I was reading a Reddit post where someone said their OCD made them take 2 hour showers. MADE them. They had no choice. They had to do it and were powerless to stop.
So this guy’s illness made him shoot those people. He believes he is as much of a victim as them. So when he locked and loaded and drove 9 hours to that mall, he was unable to keep from doing it...in his eyes and the eyes of his enablers.


19 posted on 08/04/2019 7:28:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Kaslin
Yeh sure! 😆
20 posted on 08/04/2019 7:32:25 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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