Shooting at Las Vegas casino

I suspect you're right, but we aren't even getting something like a sniff of a motive.

 

I know, but, fuck, not even an off Google search?

 

Which leaves the door wide open for all kinds of crazy conspiracies. Something has to fill that vacuum.

 

A couple of tidbits that I picked up on from the crime scene photos:

1) There was a note on one of the little tables near a window with calculations on distance, altitude drop, maybe windage. I think you all have plowed over that ground.

2) The photo of his body showed him wearing a glove on his left hand. There is a probable reason for that.

Gun barrels get hot. When you fire a semi-auto in damn near auto mode using one of those bump stocks, they get even hotter. That glove was to keep from burning his left hand. I assume he is a right-handed shooter. Haven't seen a photo of his right hand yet, but I doubt he had a glove on it. This wasn't for protecting from fingerprints. It was to keep from burning his hand so he could keep shooting and shooting.

And that's also a reason why he had so many guns - firing that fast can cause malfunctions, jams, etc. Drop one, pick up another and keep going.

My point is this: He knew a LOT about guns. This attack was very thought out in advance. He just didn't fall off the turnip truck and start buying weapons. He invested in knowledge of what he was doing somehow and somewhere.

I would suspect he had been going to a shooting range and practicing quite a bit and picking up tips. That is the other thing that surprises me - no one has come forward and said that they have seen him at a shooting range, etc.

Of course, he could have just fired out in the open desert country somewhere.

Seems like something should have not occurred in a vacuum though. Obviously the gun purchasing and ammo, but what else? Practicing, training?

Seeing that glove on his left hand was very eerie and just shows how much he put into this. Pure evil.

 

Has it been confirmed that he had explosives with him in the hotel room?

If so, what's the speculation as to why? More specifically, why didn't he use them? I mean, he could have set them off and brought the "leaning hotel*" down with him!




*Construction
During construction of Project Paradise, engineers with Nicholson Construction discovered that there was unacceptable vertical movement between the central tower and hotel wings that could cause structural damage. The tower was sinking ½ to ¾ inches a week, and the wings were sinking at a slower rate. Construction was halted, and Mandalay Bay had 500 micropiles sunk below its structure to stabilize it.

 

Mental illness is at the forefront of nearly every one of these events, and there is almost always an extensive paper trail because, fortunately, that level of mental illness is pretty difficult to hide.

This guy was 64 years old and with-it enough to plot this for at least a year, under cloak of night. And I suspect he didn't just wake up at age 64 and become a homicidal maniac. I don't get it. I'd like to see his elementary school and high school records.

 

Good gosh man. It’s not like he’s a White House advisor.

 

I was defending a death row inmate and we were using mental retardation as a defense. We had everything. I mean everything. School records from deep in the heart of rural Alabama from the 1960s.

Now, the power of subpoena is a beautiful thing.

 

I am sure law enforcement is going through every record on this guy back to the drawings he made in kindergarten that his parents hung on the refrigerator. Have to be half-dozen federal agencies working on the so-far unsubstantiated ISIS links alone. Nobody leaks like cops in a high-profile murder, but we've heard nothing. Therefore, I must conclude that so far that's what they've got.

 

Great guy, says his former employee.

Friend of Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock describes him as caring person who sought to 'make people happy'

 

When was that case? Don't think "mental retardation" is acceptable anymore.

 

That was the legal standard at the relevant time period.