Posted on 10/04/2017 6:12:28 AM PDT by EdnaMode
As I write this, there is only a small handful of facts, or alleged facts, that all of the talking heads in Big Media seem to agree upon regarding "the largest mass shooting in American history."
First, 64 year-old Stephen Paddock, a white man and resident of Nevada, appears to have acted alone when he opened fire upon over 22,000 country music concert attendees in Las Vegas.
Second, Paddock had a lot of weaponry, guns of various sorts, in the hotel room that he used as a sniper's nest.
Third, Paddock is a relatively wealthy man who enjoyed gambling and may have accrued quite a bit of debt as a consequence of his sinful pleasure.
Fourth, the shooter has a girlfriend, Marilou Danley, an Asian woman who, at the present moment, is in Tokyo. Initially, police cleared her of any wrongdoing. According to the latest update, however, they still plan on interrogating her when she returns to the states.
Fifth, nearly 60 people are now dead and over 500 people have been hospitalized.
Finally, according to his own brother, Paddock had no political or religious affiliation.
As things always go with these sorts of matters, what we think we know now will inevitably change and, in some respects, undoubtedly change dramatically as more information comes to light. So far, though, this is essentially the extent of the propositions on which the Big Media insiders agree.
Admittedly, I don't know anything more at the moment. However, I'm shocked (though not particularly surprised) that no one--namely, no "conservative" commentator--has so much as suggested even the possibility that this historically unprecedented massacre just may be the event in which the violent hatred to which suspected Deplorables have been routinely subjected for over a year-and-a-half has reached its bloody climax.
From even before President Trump received his party's nomination, leftist agitators, mostly fans of Bernie Sanders, began making it a habit to crash Trump's rallies and assault his supporters. Since this time, literally hundreds of Trump supporters, men, women, and young teenagers--the folks who Hillary Clinton infamously characterized as "deplorables"--have had their person and property abused by leftists of different sorts. Antifa ("Anti-fascists"), BLM (Black Lives Matter), and BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) are some of the more militant leftist organizations that came to be counted upon to attack indiscriminately, and with a range of weaponry, Trump supporters--i.e. veterans, flag-waving patriots, Republicans, Christians, and anyone and everyone else who is deemed "fascist."
Pepper spray and bear mace; sticks of dynamite and Molotov cocktails; bats, pipes, clubs, and flagpoles; stones, flamethrowers, and bottles; feces and urine--these are among the weapons that have been used against those who have declared their support for "free speech," Trump, and the American flag.
Some far left members of "The Resistance" have indeed shown up to some events armed with guns, although no one, to my knowledge, has yet used these guns on Trump supporters.
Of course, as recently as June, a Bernie Sanders admirer and avid MSNBC viewer, James Hodgkinson, in an effort to slaughter as many Republican members of Congress as possible, shot several, including and most notably, Steve Scalise (And shortly before this event, another zealous Sanders fan and Trump opponent, Jeremy Christian, who the media tried ((absurdly)) to depict as a "white supremacist terrorist," stabbed three men on a Portland, Oregon train, killing two of them).
In other words, the last nearly two years have established two things:
(a)Violence against anyone and everyone who is suspected of having contributed to the election of President Trump (and the GOP) has been normalized;
(b)This political violence has been normalized by those on the far left.
It also bears noting that Antifa and the like, in affirming their allegiance to "The Resistance," affirm their ideological and political affinity with all of those "mainstream" Democrats in Congress and the media who similarly raise the proverbial banner of The Resistance. For that matter, the embarrassment of a former presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, also proclaimed her own allegiance to The Resistance some months back, as did former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Democrats own the fringes of their party.
Now, given the patterns of the last two years (to say nothing of the left's long history of violence), is not the theory that the Vegas killer was but another committed Resister, determined to, "by any means necessary," "bash the fash" not eminently plausible?
After all, the predominantly white country music fans upon whom Paddock set his sights constitute the collective poster child of the Deplorable, a fact of which leftists, in their ever articulate manner, have spared no occasion to remind us from the moment that word broke of this outrage.
Shouldn't someone in Big Media, specifically, in the so-called "conservative" media, at least raise these points?
Can there be any doubt that had this been a rap concert--an event comprised of tens of thousands of black men, women, and children--that, despite being short on verifiable facts, the very media figures who now refuse to indulge speculation as to the shooter's motive would have wasted no time in speculating about "racism?"
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 don’t mind reading theories — even wild speculation — about the motivations behind incidents like this. But it seems kind of pointless to present these “theories” when the perp’s motivation is probably already known to investigators. They just haven’t made it public yet. We can get back to the theories about this again after the FBI makes something public that is so full of holes that it can’t possibly be true.
It isn’t difficult.
1. Shooter wanted to kill whites.
2. Shooter wanted to kill republicans.
3. Shooter wanted to kill Trump supporters.
I only looked at the pic for a split second - too graphic for me. But others have said it would be awfully difficult for a 64-year old man to accurately fire those weapons at the rate heard in the videos. I know nothing about guns. My theory is that Paddock wasn't the shooter. He was an unwitting victim. Just a theory...
The report I heard this morning was that Paddock waited until she left the country before carrying out this massacre because he was afraid she’d learn about his plan and report him to the police.
She is back in US and has met with FBI.
Released for now.
Considering the father was a bank robber on the FBI top 10 wanted list, there is most likely family dysfunction.
One other thing that came to me is what appears to be a sudden change in the killer’s personality. I wonder if he was on the atypical anti-psychotic medication Abilify? The reason I say this is the behavior changes including excessive gambling. Keep in mind, he was going through a divorce.
Also, read the eyes of his girlfriend and look at the wimpy personality of her ex-boyfriend. She wore the pants in her relationships. If she is a die hard liberal, she influenced Paddock.
Right now my intuition says that there was a perfect storm in Paddock’s life.... underlying childhood psychological issues, divorce, possible medications, gambling, dominant girlfriend,........... He was going through a mid-life crisis.
Psychologically, Trump syndrome is a mid-life crisis where the individual feels like they are losing control and not getting their way. It is the ego throwing an irrational hissy fit or temper tantrum in response.
After 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Bush and 8 years of Obama, people are wimped out. Add to that the increase in medications, especially for children which decrease their ability to work through difficult situations.... All these medications block a child’s psychological stage development necessary to be stable later in life.
That’s my take on Paddock’s motivation... He was going through a mid-life crisis, possibly on medication, and his ego was acting out of the fear of losing control so he did this final act of “I’ll show them!”
But it's on everyone's minds.
The long guns were outfitted with ‘bump fire’ stocks, according to the police. That is a device that simulates automatic fire in a semi-auto weapon. It allows the shooter to just pull the trigger and the action of the re-coil is harnessed to cause another round to be chambered and fired. Not as fast as ‘full auto’, but it would be difficult to tell the difference..........................
I’d suggest we give her the Pulp Fiction treatment.
Pliers and a blowtorch.
“Gun dealer” explains the substantially larger then necessary number of guns discovered than were needed for a killing spree. 3 or 4 would have been more than adequate. 30+ is something else entirely.
One possibility for excessive weapons is another shooter(s)
We’re a no show?
I don’t know the difference between a bump stock and a bumpkin. But suspect it would be difficult for a 64-year old retiree to sustain 11 minutes of aparently accurate 300+ yard fire through two broken windows looking down from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay at night with billowing smoke everywhere.
I highly doubt Paddock is the guy in the pink pussy hat.
Accuracy flies out the window, in this case literally, in automatic fire situations.
Even a blind man could kill dozens of people just pointing in the right direction.
There is no accuracy necessary in this situation, only hundreds of wholesale rounds raining down upon a crowd of innocents.............
It appears to be an Antifa/jihad mix. They are already trying to track down his Indonesian girlfriend and the source of his apparent “radicalization”. Could a grudge have determined the exact location of his attack? Sure.
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