This took a lot of preparation and planning. The hotel was booked solid for months before this concert. He was able to get a room with an elevated view of the concert area and waited until Aldean was almost finished with his show. He had multiple weapons and built platforms to shoot off of. This isn’t some nut who goes off the deep end and pulls out his pistol. I just have a hard time buying the “snapped” theory.
I might be reaching here, but if I am interpreting the geometry correctly, he was not just on the correct side of the hotel, but in the wing closest to the concert itself, and in a room at the end of that wing.
They've said he was in the room since Sep 28, but they haven't said when the reservation was made. What if they're not telling us that somehow he snagged that reservation with little or no advance in a hotel that was sold out for months for that concert? That would say he had a friend on the inside, and that the authorities are working that angle pretty aggressively.
OK, so he planned a Vegas suicide and wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. He had probably been losing his grip on reality. I'm just not seeing politics or religion behind this. Not yet, anyways.
I'm sure it would be easier if he was wearing his "I'm With Her" T-shirt and has a Facebook page full of TrumpRage but as of yet, this doesn't seem to be the case.