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re: Was a motive ever released for the Las Vegas shooting?

Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:06 pm to
Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:06 pm to
There are videos of him bringing huge duffel bags into the hotel on several occasions. Hotel staff even helped him. If I remember there was a connected parking garage that he entered from.
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:12 pm to
My favorite, there was even one earlier in the thread, are the people who say this was a CIA gun deal gone bad. Right. Because the CIA has no better place, in a state that is 90% abandoned desert, to do a secret gun deal. Yep, they are going to tote a couple dozen rifles (ones you can buy at a sporting good store) up to a hotel suite to sell them. That must be it!
Posted by yatesdog38
in your head rent free
Member since Sep 2013
12737 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:24 pm to
no it didn't disappear faster than that. Bumpstocks were made illegal because of this shooting.

You just have a bad memory. It was almost exactly 3 years ago. it has been a while but it was talked about for a while. Terrible tragedy for sure. Just a psychopath. he had a lot of explosive materials but never built a bomb. could have been worse
This post was edited on 9/20/20 at 9:25 pm
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
41443 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:28 pm to
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honestly think that since it occurred in a premier vacation destination location that the Vegas powers that be have really pushed to keep this whole thing on the down low, to not let Vegas be known as "the place where a bunch of people were shot and killed".


I never actually thought about this angle, and now that you mention this, it makes the absolute most sense to me. Occom’s Razor and all
Posted by Civildawg
Member since May 2012
10227 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:29 pm to
My first girlfriend in middle school was at the concert when the shooting went down. It was very eerie to see her post stuff right after the shooting happened and what they had to do to escape. Real scary
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:32 pm to
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never actually thought about this angle, and now that you mention this, it makes the absolute most sense to me. Occom’s Razor and all


Does virginia tech have any memorials, etc. up in relation to their mass killing that occurred there? I'm most certain its not mentioned to high school seniors on their college tour trips
Posted by EastBankTiger
A little west of Hoover Dam
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:43 pm to
Local news has previously reported that Paddock rented a huge suite at a downtown hotel overlooking the Life Is Beautiful Festival a couple of weeks earlier. Speculation was that he'd considered targeting that event originally but then backed away from it.

Paddock also targeted fuel tanks at nearby McCarran Airport, hoping to set to set off explosions. LINK
Posted by Nativebullet
Plano, TX
Member since Feb 2011
5169 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:05 pm to
I don’t get the cheated in life angle. He was a millionaire due to smart real estate investments. He gambled but still had a huge nest egg. A week prior to the shootings he wired $100k overseas to his “girlfriend” to get a place to live.
Posted by Kjnstkmn
Vermilion Parish
Member since Aug 2020
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:08 pm to
LINK

There was a possible antifa angle, and I always figured the govt covered up to prevent a response from any revenge minded baws. I.e. avoid the civil war these fricks are intent on starting. He targeted country music cuz fans are mostly conservative
This post was edited on 9/20/20 at 10:10 pm
Posted by HeadSlash
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Member since Aug 2006
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:11 pm to
Bitter angry old white man
Posted by SoloTiger
Member since Aug 2016
10714 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:21 pm to
Obama in office...bump stocks made illegal shortly after. Hmm...
Posted by 257WBY
Member since Feb 2014
7226 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:24 pm to
Attempt to turn the Trump base (country fans) against guns.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
59077 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:26 pm to
i think about this a lot. it was probably just a "typical" bitter person... but it just doesn't feel right.

quote:

the Aurora theater shooting
didn't a bunch of people claim to a second person block a door or something, or was that debunked?
Posted by notbilly
alter
Member since Sep 2015
6763 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:27 pm to
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There was a possible antifa angle


No there wasn't.
Posted by Delacroix22
Member since Aug 2013
4537 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:29 pm to
There are 2 conspiracy theories I've heard, one is very simple:

1. Was a left wing nut job who wanted to kill Trump supporters at a country music conert

The second one is super complicated

2. The floor above on Mandalay Bay is privately owned by a Saudi royal. There was some Saudi prince in town. When the shooting starts there is security footage of a Saudi (the prince) being escorted out of a casino with an entourage of armed guards. Crazy stuff. There are reports of other shootings. Apparently the angle goes that some faction of Saudis were there to assassinate the prince. Bear in mind at this time Trump was working deep in roads to ally with the Saudis. And a week or two after this happens there were tons of people who were arrested for corruption in Saudi Arabia, including people opposed to the prince who was trying to be assassinated. I can't remember a whole lot but it is deep about that, how they tried to schedule a hit on their prince and it got all messed up so their cover was to frame Paddock, killed a bunch of Americans, and escaped. And the fall out from Americans realizing a bunch of Saudis killed a bunch of Americans and wanting war with them would be nuclear.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
59077 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:36 pm to
quote:

r cover was to frame Paddock, killed a bunch of Americans, and escaped. And the fall out from Americans realizing a bunch of Saudis killed a bunch of Americans and wanting war with them would be nuclear.
how do they reconcile the videos of him taking suitcase after suitcase to his suite?
Posted by EA6B
TX
Member since Dec 2012
14754 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:37 pm to
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Yep, they are going to tote a couple dozen rifles (ones you can buy at a sporting good store) up to a hotel suite to sell them. That must be it!


The guns actually were bought at sporting goods stores, with his own credit cards, and required background check for each purchase, that’s the classic mark of a illegal “CIA gun running operation”!
Posted by 3deadtrolls
lafayette
Member since Jan 2014
6716 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:45 pm to
I think the story pretty much ends with “Paddock was a real dick.”
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:47 pm to
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I legit wonder about this at least once a week
Posted by keakar
Member since Jan 2017
30152 posts
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:54 pm to
my personal thoughts are it was just a flipped out crazy guy who by all accounts should have been investigated yet due to PC BS no one wanted to be accused of some "ism" for reporting him so until people started dying only then were people willing to speak up bout all the red flags surrounding him

now as to the investigation, its a total cover up of how it was mismanaged and no one wants to be held accountable for it. along with that its a PR nightmare they want erased from history and never talked about again
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