Sometimes if we just throw all the known clues on the table, they naturally form the events themselves.
Here are a few I heard recently, which begin to make more sense than the first reports.
The shooter was checked into a suite in a major casino.
The shooter was associated with high stakes video gaming, with betting in the $10k range on a routine daily basis, and had been for several years.
The relatives of the shooter had been givein their fortunes from the shooter, to the extent that they don’t consider $100k a significant sum of money.
The shooter is characterized as meticulously planning his actions based upon risk and maneuver.
There were some 20 weapons found in the shooter’s hotel suite, and most had not been used.
There also were about 20 weapons found in the shooter’s home.
There were 2 broken/open windows in the shooter’s suite.
The attempts at full auto with the weapons used will tend to overheat the barrel after about 100 rounds are fired continuously.
Over 500 casualties in 10 minutes of shooting.
The suite and the shooter were staying in a casino hotel.
Casinos which handle large volumes of cash, tend to have higher security measures than most other establishments.
Casino cameras and security tend to map every possible or conceivable access to their property and on their property.
If the casino hotel suite was not monitored for 20 automatic weapons being cached in that location, then it is likely a matter of time before thieves will begin to cache weapons and ammo in hotel suites to rob the casinos. (If not monitored, it sure seems like a significant security vulnerability.)
If the shooter didn’t use more than several weapons, and he was a meticulous planner, then why would he risk discovery by taking 10x the amount of weaponry than he planned to use and store it in a casino hotel room, with likely hidden security monitoring systems?
Some have suggested he thought he was being used in a sting operation to lure in terrorist operatives, who became aware of a trap, and then failed to appear, but he then continued with his portion of the plan, while other portions were ongoing. Something like this might very nicely explain why so many weapons were there and Not used by a meticulously planned operation. A Fast and Furious II, except the real terrorism is being planned as false flags by covert manipulators.
Things might be as simple as a very irrational person, who has made millions of dollars based upon casino gambling, had a General Jack T Ripper notion of hauling automatic weapons into a casino suite and sniping at crowds with automatic weapons.
I tend to think fools are easily parted with their money and he had made too much money to be so foolish, especially in Las Vegas. Either some deep pocket funneled him the funds and Las Vegas was more than willing to part him with his money to absorb his behavior, or the public may want to divest of MGM stock.
One additional note.
Even if the shooter was nuts, he was sane enough to gamble.
After the first few bursts of automatic gunfire, the “BOOM” factor would quickly awaken him to reality.
He knew what he was doing and continued his actions for an extended period through changing circumstances.
If he was a meticulous planner, and self-absorbed into weaponry, he likely would have found access to simple crew served weapons which could have caused much more damage.