Posted on 10/05/2017 4:03:02 AM PDT by markomalley
Three days after 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on Las Vegas concertgoers late Sunday night, several huge questions remain unanswered.
Clark Country Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at a press conference Wednesday night that he assumes Paddock likely had help in carrying out his mass murder.
“You got to make the assumption he had to have help at some point, and we want to ensure that’s the answer,” Lombardo said. “Maybe he’s a super guy, super hero–not a hero, super–I won’t use the word. Maybe he’s super — that was working out this out on his own, but it will be hard for me to believe that.”
So far, there is no publicly available evidence that Paddock had help in carrying out his plot.
If, as the sheriff believes, Paddock had help, the question remains: from whom? Paddock’s longtime girlfriend, Marilou Danley, was in the Philippines at the time of the attack. She claims to have had no knowledge of Paddock’s murderous intentions.
Law enforcement officials discovered large quantities of bomb-making materials in Paddock’s car, which was parked at the Mandalay Bay hotel.
Lombardo told reporters on Monday that ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound used to make homemade bombs, was found in Paddock’s car. On Wednesday, Lombardo said that law enforcement officers also found 50 pounds of Tannerite, an explosive chemical, in Paddock’s car.
It’s unclear what Paddock ultimately aimed to do with the car full of bomb-making materials.
Sheriff Lombardo said Wednesday night that he has reason to believe that Paddock originally planned to remain alive or escape after carrying out the mass murder.
Paddock committed suicide after detecting an unarmed security guard outside his room.
How did he plan to escape? That question remains unanswered.
Paddock purchased a room at the Ogden Las Vegas during another music festival, Life Is Beautiful, the previous weekend.
Paddock’s room at the Ogden, like his room at the Mandalay Bay, overlooked the concert venue.
Was the Ogden room a practice run for Sunday night’s massacre? Was it a target? “We don’t know yet,” Lombardo said.
The biggest question in the wake of the shooting: Why did he do it?
More than 72 hours after the deadliest mass shooting in American history, the public still has no answer for why Paddock did what he did.
Not even open to negotiation. No “sin tax” on ammo.
What ever became of the reports of a woman at the concert telling people that they were all going to die? Was that a red herring?
During the press conference the Sheriff said that Piddledick shot through the door of his room and wounded a guard, who lived.
Presumably that guy would know if Piddledick left the room?
I sure don't have any.
Does that mean I'm too late?
Keep chatting d***wad
I can envision the rise in numbers of reload shops. Start collecting brass shells now.
“You got to make the assumption he had to have help at some point, and we want to insure that’s the answer. Maybe he’s a super guy, super hero–not a hero, super–I won’t use the word. Maybe he’s super — that was working out this out on his own, but it will be hard for me to believe that.”
That reads like insistence to me.
What aspect of the pre-planning do you believe could not be accomplished by somebody with a 100 IQ?
I’m not saying this guy didn’t have a 130, 150 or 175 IQ, but what particular aspect could not be conceived and executed by an average mind?
“Because people knew he was going to shoot before it happened.”
Who?
We know only as much as LEO has told us.
We have no direct knowledge as to whether anyone else entered that room from the 28th onward.
Because he put so much effort into planning this, I’ll bet he sent letters (etc.) to the news people.
The family? They knew the guy was strange, but was there really enough contact between them that they'd have an inkling that he was planning something?
Politics? I think he wanted a big scene. He wanted to kill as many people as possible. He might have hit on an ideology that would justify that in his own mind, but politics or ideology may not have been his primary motive.
Definition: Someone's insistence on something is the fact that they insist that it should be done or insist that it is the case.
Doesn't comport with the definition of the word. He is not ruling out the possibility that he did it alone. He is not insisting that Paddock did not act alone just expressing some skepticism that is the case.
What aspect of the pre-planning do you believe could not be accomplished by somebody with a 100 IQ? I’m not saying this guy didn’t have a 130, 150 or 175 IQ, but what particular aspect could not be conceived and executed by an average mind?
It has less to do with IQ and more to do with knowledge and experience. I guess the "average" person could take apart or assemble a swiss watch, but not without some knowledge and experience along with the right tools. People are trained to be snipers, assassins, spies, etc. How did this guy acquire this knowledge or experience? He started making major purchases of weapons in October 2016. What prompted that?
When Sheriff Lombardo with a great deal of experience and knowledge along with the evidence, some of which we are not privy to, makes the assessment that he believed someone helped this guy, then I take that assessment seriously. I tend to agree because this smacks of a professional.
So did I and a million other people. I lived in Oak Cliff in Dallas. Officer Tippitt's house was at the end of our block. My family also had a lake house near LBJ's and Connolly's lake houses and saw him regularly. The next door neighbor had a sign on their toilet, "LBJ sat here" and he gave another neighbor kid a knife with the prez seal on it. My family knew his pilot and would visit with them out on the Johnson ranch where I saw LBJ's belly button. I've stood in the Sixth Floor window, not the one that is one the internet these days, but the real one. From the real window, either Oswald was a big dumby trying for that angle and had all kinds of luck or someone else did it. I don't believe conspiracy theories that LBJ did it know who killed JFK. Outside my thoughts on it, I don't know who killed JFK and neither do you or google.com.
I'd say the timing is a clue. It was shortly after this that Stephen started purchasing the 33 guns which he added to his collection.
This...we weren't close...makes no sense if they drove cross country a year ago.
I'd like to know what was going on in Florida that made him suddenly want to move.
“Even if bolted down it can be opened by a cutting torch, course you might blow yourself to bits if you get that ammo to hot”
Electric hand grinder and a crowbar...
Watch YouTube, 5 minutes. Most of those gunsafes are mere sheet steel. They peel open like bananas.
“Erasing people’s names from history is a simplistic solution from a simple mind.”
I found it interesting that after the recent black guy shooting up the church in Tennessee - I could instantly recall the white punk Dylan Roof that shot up the black church - but had to find an article to remind me of the more recent shooter’s name.
“I’m still stumped on JFK’s killer.”
Then Mark Lane of the National Lawyers Guild did his dezinformatsia well. A credit to his Kremlin sponsors.
Just how zonked out this guy was is a puzzle. He had to have some lucidity to plan and execute this crime, but I suspect his manner might have put people off to the point where he wouldn't be the most persuasive salesman.
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As with Dylann Roof, who entered a black church and went on a racist rampage, or with any of the Islamist lone wolves who drove vehicles into crowds or simply attacked with knives, I believe that Paddock felt slighted by the world around him, unjustly marginalized — a condition doubtless aggravated by our corrupting sense of entitlement. His lack of a motivating ideology reveals the angry ego at the core of so much terrorism.
The 19th-century German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel noted that all human beings crave recognition. But our ancestors were content with less than we are; they weren’t tantalized by reports of celebrity lifestyles. In our have-it-all, you’re-entitled culture, millions feel alienated and left behind.
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