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Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock enjoyed gambling, country music, lived quiet life before massacre
Washington Post ^ | October 2, 2017 | William Wan, Sandhya Somashekhar, Aaron C. Davis & Barbara Liston

Posted on 10/02/2017 10:50:17 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Before he opened fire late Sunday, killing at least 58 people at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the gunman Stephen Paddock was living out his retirement as a high-stakes professional gambler in a quiet town outside Las Vegas.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: mandalaybay; massacre; paddock; stephenpaddock; vegasshooter
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Maybe he got a phone call? “And miles to go before I sleep...”


41 posted on 10/02/2017 11:34:56 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: funfan

My friend proffered that about an hour ago (1:30PM Eastern)


42 posted on 10/02/2017 11:34:56 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: funfan
What if he wasn’t the shooter at all? Maybe someone killed him and all the other people but the narrative is he did it and committed suicide.

Wasn't he already dead when authorities came thru the door?

43 posted on 10/02/2017 11:38:28 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“High stakes gambler” seems like an easy way to explain large money flows you can’t otherwise explain.


44 posted on 10/02/2017 11:46:07 AM PDT by marron
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To: marron
"High stakes gambler" seems like an easy way to explain large money flows you can’t otherwise explain.

The IRS would have some record of this from the casinos even if the guy didn't report a dime of it.

If there's no record of it, I'd say there's a good chance he was using his "high stakes gambler" job description to hide his real job -- drug dealing, illegal arms trafficking, laundering money, etc.

45 posted on 10/02/2017 11:58:14 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: NorthMountain

TOtal horse hit. THe truth will come out despite the fake news spin


46 posted on 10/02/2017 11:58:41 AM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!)
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To: ground_fog
THe truth will come out

You're an optimist.

47 posted on 10/02/2017 12:01:35 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

He’s not Black, and probably not m*zzy, so the media got what they wanted - the perfect perpetrator.


48 posted on 10/02/2017 12:04:09 PM PDT by I want the USA back (*slam is a violent political movement that hides behind the illusion of religion.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Near the end of your post’s linked 2 plus minutes video, the pink T-shirt man stood next to an Asian woman, each carried the same sign in the anti-Trump protest and carried on animated with each other. Could that woman be his Asian “roommate”?


49 posted on 10/02/2017 12:19:32 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY.)
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To: longtermmemmory

“is there any confirmation he was active in any of the soros funded / Obama funded hate groups?”

I haven’t heard anything about party affiliation or political views. Maybe the left is getting better at sheep-dipping their killers.


50 posted on 10/02/2017 12:24:07 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: knarf

Kinda like the Sandy Hook shooter, only one photo of him, then poof!


51 posted on 10/02/2017 12:31:43 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever)
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To: House Atreides

The face and height seemed about right, but was her sign written in Spanish?


52 posted on 10/02/2017 12:33:29 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever)
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To: PLMerite

he is a msnbc democrat


53 posted on 10/02/2017 12:43:49 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I thought his “roommate” was described as an ethnic Indonesian Australian citizen. I couldn’t make out the details of the signs other than to note that they were the same.


54 posted on 10/02/2017 12:48:34 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY.)
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To: TexasGunLover

It could be that he carries into his room a large number of killin stuff each time he hits the casinos, just in case he loses big! He coulda lost big this time. /s


55 posted on 10/02/2017 1:18:42 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: funfan

That was a collateral thought I entertained briefly as well. Would have been easy to set him up as a lone wolf, sitting on the sideline until the police closed in. Then make it look like a suicide, and split! It is possible.


56 posted on 10/02/2017 1:21:22 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Little Ray

>>Maybe he got a phone call? “And miles to go before I sleep...”

Extremely likely. Recall the out of the blue shootup of an SF law office just before Feinstein tried to outlaw assault rifles in CA.


57 posted on 10/02/2017 1:26:49 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui (Smarter - Faster)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Listening to the actual shooting, it sounds like a belt fed machine gun.

It does not sound like an AK or AR or other rifle.

The long bursts also indicate a heavier piece of machinery than a full auto rifle.

Those belt feeds are more than likely WW2 and NOT CHEAP.

4000 rounds is not a lot when belts can be a couple of hundred per

My friend proffered a Manchurian gunman that was left by the shooter after the fact.


We'll learn more as time goes, but the rumors are starting a la Sandy Hill.

58 posted on 10/02/2017 2:07:03 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: House Atreides

The blond with the identical signs next to the pink shirt pink p-hat man is not the woman is question.
Somewhere else in the video there’s a woman that resembles Marilou very closely.
But I’ve not gone back to study it and the video attached to the twitter feed I’m unable to open.


59 posted on 10/02/2017 2:38:30 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

All I know is that nothing about this story is adding up.

I think that’s why FR and the internet are buzzing with every theory under the sun. No one can make sense of it, as there doesn’t seem to be (as yet) any logical explanation concerning this guy’s motive.


60 posted on 10/02/2017 2:46:28 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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