I’ve had this feeling that there was a second shooter involved, and that the intention the entire time was to use Paddock as the pawn/scapegoat. That’s quite a bit of gear to be hauling up to the rooms, with quite a bit of planning. Not too mention anything, that I’ve seen at least, in this guys background that he’s had any significant training.
As for motive, that’s the million dollar question...
Anti-depressants. Just like most of the others.
Who gives a crap about his motive. He was purely evil and committed a henious act. In a country of 315 million we will have people like this, and given the constant bombardment of the Democrats and the media of trying to make everyone into a victim (and of course victims have no personal responsibility for their idiotic life choices and their action- it’s always someone else’s fault) the fringe will believe they’re getting revenge on those who wronged them. In reality 99.9% of people’s problems are solely of their own making.
Steven Paddock was an arms dealer for the FBI. He has a pilot license and his planes are now being used by defense intelligence contractors. He had a huge safe and probably dealt out of Las Vegas, using his father’s criminal career and his rolling lifestyle to draw buyers in.
He had a deal with either drug dealers, ANTIFA, or ISIS/Muslims. The first is a no go because they’d want the trade to go down on their turf or neutral turf where they could scout before they went in to buy. ANTIFA are too stupid. That leaves Muslims or maybe some other unknown. He probably had SEVERAL clients, all of which were taped for FBI evidence. The FBI got too lax as he gambled, ate, and drank with them. Something went wrong his (maybe not the dealing) last night. He was shot, which alerted the hotel. The buyers then grabbed his guns and fired out at the show in order to cause chaos. They also shot the guard for the same reason, planted a suicide note and shot him through the head.
The cops came in and stopped in front of the hotel confused, then after caring for the guard, found exactly who they were looking for - the suicided crazy. He had no reason to kill himself. He had way too many guns for a rampage. He had two rooms, and receipts showing two guests.
Either this, or there were multiple shooters (maybe ANTIFA?) and he was their cover suicide, but again, no reason for him to take himself out. Unless he was recently diagnosed with cancer or something.
“Can we doubt that had the targeted event been a gathering of tens of thousands of Hispanics or Muslims or gays that we would have been treated to endless speculation concerning the likely “racism,” “Islamophobia,” and “homophobia,” respectively, of the shooter?
There is nothing objectionable about speculating, as long as the speculation is reasonable, rendered plausible (if not true) by the known facts. Intellectually curious people speculate. Speculation is actually preferable to the incessant repetition of talking points with which Americans are relentlessly bombarded by the media whenever events like this occur.
That those in the media now refuse to speculate or, to put it more accurately, that they refuse to advance the most plausible of speculative theories—the shooter, like the 66 year-old James Hodgkinson, who was in his age cohort, was an anti-Republican, anti-Trump zealot—is explained by the likely fact that he shared their animosity toward the same objects.
I’ll show my hand now: While I may be proven wrong, I’d bet dollars to donuts that Stephen Paddock was driven by the same homicidal hatred of all things to his right that animated Hodgkinson.
Paddock, I find it more credible than not, saw himself as a member of The Resistance.”
I suspect that Marilou Danley radicalized Stephen Paddock as she was radicalized by her former husband, Geary Danley. It seems as though Geary Danley is being left out of the equasion. He is a Hillary sympathizer and ultra far Left. Marilou was married to him for 25 years. I am sure that Geary’s radical leftist ideology rubbed off on her.
I believe Paddock did the shooting to punch Marilou’s ticket of approval. She was sent to the Philipines, the country of her birth, to protect her from the police as a result of his actions. The $100,000 he wired her was to insure she had financial security because he knew his assets would be locked up and unavailable to her. Being a pilot, I believe Paddock had an air escape plan if he could get out of he hotel and ride to the airport. Then he would fly to the Phillipines, pick up Marilou and go to a country that would never extradite them: Croatia, Kazakhstan, Dubai, Morocco, and Bhutan are suggestions.
How easy we have forgotten the San Bernadino shooter, Syed Farook. He married what you could describe was a Pakistani mail-order bride for ISIS. It has been said that the San Bernardino shooter’s wife, Tashfeen Malik, radicalized her husband.
This is called “connecting the dots.”
My thoughts: Either the ones investigating this are idiots or they are hiding something from us.
Or they want to be really, really, really, really,
REALLY,
really, really, really...really sure before they say anything.
Internet blowing up with speculation that he almost said "arms dealer."
Well that press conference was a huge nothing burger.
I think he could have been a government Manchurian candidate. He likely worked for the CIA. He is too invisible. He reeks agent. Maybe USA, maybe even Russian, some government that wants our guns.
Please read my comments 94, 95 and 100, in this regard.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3591497/posts?page=94#94
Short version (lots at the link): recent Islam convert. ISIS has never claimed one was theirs when it was not.
I got it all at this link, and posted some of it at the FR link, quite long with a lot of graphics, and MEMRI is a reputable org:
Seems like about the same level of information about Paddock’s motive and the history of Obama!
Does evil need one?
Has anyone asked Jimmy Kimmel, he appears to act smart?
How about he was a crazy son of a bitch.
I, too, would like to know....what ARE your thought?
The FBI is holding back. I’m pretty sure he hated Trump.
He wanted to kill people just for the hell of it. Quite the adrenaline rush, I would imagine. I wonder if he tortured animals as a kid? I dunno, just speculation. Who can really get into the head of a person like that?