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A thirst for notoriety, a mental breakdown and $1.6 million gambling losses (Stephen Paddock)
UK Daily Mail ^ | 30 September 2018 | Staff

Posted on 09/30/2018 8:50:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

One year after the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, experts theorize WHY gunman Stephen Paddock killed 58 at Vegas concert

One year after he committed the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, experts are still searching for the motive of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock.

The 64-year-old rained down bullets for approximately 10 minutes from his Mandalay Bay and Casino hotel room in the attack that killed 58 people and injured at least 500 on October 1, 2017.

Some say he was searching for fame, others have said it was the result of a mental illness.

But these theories are merely based on speculation with little evidence to back them up.

ETC...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: guncontrol; lasvegas; stephenpaddock
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After a year, all we still have is speculation and few verified facts.
1 posted on 09/30/2018 8:50:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

The FBI Is on it. We should hear something next year.


2 posted on 09/30/2018 8:51:35 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Can’t we get the FIB to open a new week long investigation?


3 posted on 09/30/2018 8:52:05 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: samadams2000

The FBI Is on it. We should hear something in the next decade.


4 posted on 09/30/2018 8:53:33 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: yesthatjallen

I don’t think it’s that big of a conspiracy. I think you have a man who was a degenerate and loner who sat drunk all day gambling his life away and money away.


5 posted on 09/30/2018 8:54:12 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: samadams2000

I think they were.


6 posted on 09/30/2018 8:56:38 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: yesthatjallen

The only odd factor that rarely gets mentioned...is that he got put on new medication about three months prior to the shooting. I think whatever this change was...simply accelerated his mental breakdown and the need to punish virtually everyone.


7 posted on 09/30/2018 8:57:57 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: yesthatjallen

So this is a “test drive” for the official
narrative that the government will try to sell
regarding the Las Vegas soft target attack?


8 posted on 09/30/2018 8:59:30 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: yesthatjallen

A year of FBI investigation and they still dont’ know why.

But give Comey just 24 hrs to review 33,000 Hillary emails?

“She’s not culpable”.

Wow, he reads fast.


9 posted on 09/30/2018 9:03:14 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: yesthatjallen

The very most videotaped place is a casino.

How much of the video have we seen? Zero.

And that’s just like the Oklahoma City bombing:

ALL the surveillance video of the Murrah Building, POOF, just disappeared.

The FBI copied it and everything, required the contractors to have FBI escorts the entire time they were doing it, too, to include when they went to the BATHROOM.

Yet the American public has seen NONE of the footage, and that’s because in both cases the Feds had muuuuch more to do with the goings-on than they have ever said.


10 posted on 09/30/2018 9:07:28 AM PDT by gaijin
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“”So this is a “test drive” for the official
narrative that the government will try to sell””

You got that right-

Sent his “girlfriend” out of the country with HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars!!- Told her to stay AWAY- no issue there!

Anyone see her deposition?
Who he was hanging out with?
ALL of the casinos KNOW EXACTLY:
1. when he was there
2. how long
3. gambling Wins and losses
4. where did he get his money?
5. how long was he over seas? where?

Actually I find it amazing that none of this WILL EVER be
explored- it is more hidden than Hitlerlys emails


11 posted on 09/30/2018 9:09:10 AM PDT by mj1234
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To: yesthatjallen

Paddock FLEW to Phoenix right before the massacre, then DROVE back —why?

Isn’t that a little weird..?

—> Cuz you can’t get on an airplane back to Vegas if all your luggage is crammed full of a million GUNS. <—

Where is ATF HQ?

Phoenix.


12 posted on 09/30/2018 9:10:46 AM PDT by gaijin
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I don’t think it’s that big of a conspiracy. I think you have a man who was a degenerate and loner who sat drunk all day gambling his life away and money away.

Gambling big allowed him to enjoy the "high-roller" perks but when you show up to Vegas every Friday with a million bucks and leave every Monday with $995,000, that's called "losing" and eventually you're going to run out of money. Paddock was doing this every night.

When Vegas changed the algorithms of their slot machines to pay out a little less, Paddock viewed this as cheating and with his money running dry, he wanted to teach the casinos a lesson.

I've never bought the crazy conspiracies. The simplest explanation is probably the best; Paddock thought he found the secret to living the good life in Vegas on their dime in perpetuity and when he say things weren't going to work out this way, he became angrier, drunker, and blamed the casinos.

13 posted on 09/30/2018 9:15:23 AM PDT by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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To: gaijin

He was an undercover gummint agent plying around for Muzzies and scumbags (but I repeat myself) interested in making undocumented purchases of military-style arms.

His only previous working history was for big US gummint contractors who can’t say no to providing exactly the type of employment cover operatives like Paddock needed.

He had a long history of using AirBnB’s —that’s where he was showing his arms wares to the scumbags getting prepped for fed stinging.

When he really did need to fly, he flew himself. Why? Same as above; getting on a commercial airplane with lots of guns raised red-flags and now it’s almost impossible, certainly impossible for an undercover lacking a badge.

It’s amazing to me that ANYONE buys the, “he got depressed and so went and mowed down a yuge concert crowd”.

It’s ridiculous.


14 posted on 09/30/2018 9:16:38 AM PDT by gaijin
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... when you show up to Vegas every Friday with a million bucks and leave every Monday with $995,000, that's called "losing"...

It could also be called "money laundering".

15 posted on 09/30/2018 9:23:52 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Bullcrap... unless the Saudis are listed as part of the story it is fraudulent as ever.


16 posted on 09/30/2018 9:56:41 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (17...#1776)
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To: indthkr

I still believe the earlier version that it was an assassination attempt at one of the Saudi Crown Princes which went wrong.


17 posted on 09/30/2018 9:58:15 AM PDT by saintgermaine (saintgermaine the time traveller)
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To: gaijin

Do you think he was ended by the people when they figured out the arms deals were stings? Or an inside job from “our guys”?

And do you think he did any shooting at the concert goers?

I know it wasn’t “depressed bored angry rich gambler”. The story has to make sense. 600 people hit? No depression is quite that bad.

Arms were dealt. But hard to understand how it ended up like it did.


18 posted on 09/30/2018 10:08:20 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Drew68
I've never bought the crazy conspiracies

I have bought several of them. They are inexpensive and available in an attractive boxed set at a discount. Some assembly is required and batteries are not included.

The "one most likely to succeed" is that Paddock was an Agency informant who turned on his handlers, with a little help from some people the Agency thought he was setting up for a sting.

The "disgruntled gambler" narrative is the Agency cover story to protect the fools who sponsored this project and had it blow up in their faces.

But that is just another theory put together from open sources with suitable cross-checking. There are people who know exactly what happened. They are not going to confirm any of the stories because the publicizing the real thing would make a bunch of people look very bad.

19 posted on 09/30/2018 10:10:28 AM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m not buying the official narrative.
We may never know the real story about this shooting.


20 posted on 09/30/2018 10:26:10 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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