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If That Was the Vegas Shooter's Motive, What Were Local Police/FBI Doing All This Time?
townhall.com ^ | 3/31/2023 1605 hrs edt | Matt Vespa

Posted on 04/01/2023 8:39:48 AM PDT by rktman

In the aftermath, the Trump administration signed off on a bump-stock ban that went into effect in 2018. It’s been challenged in the courts. We never got a solid motive for Paddock’s rampage, only a lot of conjecture. Every avenue regarding this investigation wound up being a dead end. For years, we knew nothing about Paddock’s motivations for committing mass murder until now, but skepticism abounds as the new theory is that the casinos were mistreating him. After nearly a decade of investigating, Paddock committed the worst mass shooting by a single person in US history because he felt disrespected at the gambling tables. For lack of a better term, this is quite anti-climactic. Authorities still maintain their official position that no motive could be determined to satisfy why Paddock committed this crime. Yet, if this is one step closer to the truth, what were the FBI and local law enforcement doing all this time? This was the big reveal: casino mistreatment

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: armssmuggling; banglist; casino; casinos; gambleanon; lasvegas; mandalaybay; massshooting; nevada; paddock; philippines; weaponssmuggling
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To: Billthedrill
"The guy was a known gambler, yes, but he was also a known (illegal) weapons dealer."

THIS. This is why we have been fed this string of nonsense.

41 posted on 04/01/2023 11:39:44 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: frank ballenger

I have a FIRM belief that this EVIL agency trolls on line looking for vulnerable people and starts to chat them up, getting them all riled up KNOWING full well what the outcome will be and PUSHING them toward that outcome!! This has become an agency of SATANS, thinking about all the power THEY will have over the people once our firearms are removed from us!! They are DRUNK on power to them the ends justify the means!! This agency is NOT salvageable EVERY stinking person NEEDS TO GO!!


42 posted on 04/01/2023 11:51:09 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Can’t argue.

Next time try to let us know your real feelings, though.😇


43 posted on 04/01/2023 11:55:22 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
Project MKUltra control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

44 posted on 04/01/2023 11:55:53 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: dinodino

The 8chan account of the Las Vegas shooting being a cover for an assassination attempt on Saudi Prince Muhammad Bin Salman makes far more sense than anything coming out of government. That account may not be 100% correct, but it fits the known facts much better than any controlled media reporting on the event - and explains the subsequent actions taken by MBS in Saudi Arabia against his enemies.


45 posted on 04/01/2023 12:01:39 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: rktman

Hi.

Between you and me, I don’t trust the DoJ or Fbi.

5.56mm


46 posted on 04/01/2023 12:09:13 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: rktman
The gunman who killed 60 people in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting had lost tens of thousands while gambling weeks before the mass shooting and was upset about how the casinos had treated him, according to FBI documents made public this week.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 30, 2023
The dude was researching events in Boston in May and had a room reserved in Chicago in mid-August to target Lalapalooza.

I get it: Vegas dissed him, so he thought about shooting up Boston or Chicago. Yah.
47 posted on 04/01/2023 12:41:28 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: rktman

BS.


48 posted on 04/01/2023 1:22:51 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: rktman

Sure. It was the center fuel tank.

Unbelievable....


49 posted on 04/01/2023 1:24:26 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Farmerbob

ah yeah...I remember now. Didn’t she have ties to ISIS or muslims or something? That’s what I was remembering about her. (its hell getting old :O )


50 posted on 04/01/2023 1:41:25 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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To: dinodino

I believe they are telling us part of the motive but leaving out the main reason for Paddock’s freakout. Paddock and maybe a half dozen other gamblers made a living by figuring out which were the ten or so “loosest slots in Vegas and camping on them for 2500 hours a year. My guess that by playing a system to exploit the weakness in the machine’s algorithm, Paddock was able to pick up 400k a year for 2500 hours boring work. After a while these guys were perceived by the Casinos’ as unneeded nuisances, especially since Vegas was pulling in more high rollers, so they changed the algorithms on the “loose” machines to reduce payouts. Paddock was enraged because they took away his gig. There was really no reason for him to spend all that time there only for comps and perks. It was the Money!


51 posted on 04/01/2023 1:45:14 PM PDT by ga1948
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To: ga1948

I disagree. I worked in the industry, and I think your thesis is false.


52 posted on 04/01/2023 2:02:01 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: M Kehoe

Folks with a ‘gabby’ won’t trust them either.


53 posted on 04/01/2023 2:47:47 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: StAnDeliver

Makes me wonder if he was involved in Fast n Furious.

He had a Filipino girlfriend.

Yee?, the Democrat in California who got caught up in a weapons smuggling deal, made his deal with MILF in the Philippines, as I recall. Yee? was an associate of Dianne Feinstein.


54 posted on 04/01/2023 4:13:33 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: dinodino

I think his room at the Mandalay Bay was comped. I know this guy was basically an obsessive angry wierdo, but do you thing merely reducing his comps would cause him to flip out to the extent he did? Maybe.


55 posted on 04/01/2023 4:17:59 PM PDT by ga1948
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To: rktman

Analysis of his motive looks to be mostly guesswork. Have we taken hypno-programmed Manchurian candidate off the table?


56 posted on 04/01/2023 4:31:40 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: Yollopoliuhqui

Thinkin’ AI at this point. 😳👍


57 posted on 04/01/2023 4:46:44 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

I was on the ground in Vegas during the shooting. This explanation is bunk. I think the entire thing smells like a setup. I saw SWAT on the ground within minutes. FBI was on the spot minutes later. Almost like they were expecting something to go down. Two hotel windows were broken out to emplace guns. One gun was secured in a locked suite adjoining the master. Who locked it from the inside, and why.


58 posted on 04/01/2023 7:43:16 PM PDT by confederatecarpetbag
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To: CletusVanDamme

It took this long to fabricate such a weak lie? What is the truth?
= = =

Just setting up the narrative for ‘he was trans, and responding’.


59 posted on 04/02/2023 8:16:37 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Scrambler Bob

They have never explained how Paddock made his income - he had been a govt employee for a over a decade and then seems to have mysteriously gone off the payroll yet could afford multiple homes and an aircraft.

I speculate he was working as a govt operative - notably the contra supply operation was going on in 1985 when he went dark.


60 posted on 04/02/2023 3:40:03 PM PDT by nvcdl
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