When I heard the shooting, I went into detective mode and found out a lot before the media did. I knew the causality rate was going to be astronomically high as reports from local hospitals said they were at critical mass. I tracked down the woman, Marylou Danley, her home and everything I could find out about her. I found her Facebook page as well as know she is a Mom and Grandmother, likes to gamble, works at a casino and was most likely, not involved in the shooting. As she was in the Philippines at the time, her alibi seems solid. The odd part is I KNEW it was going to be her live in boyfriend/roommate who has zero social media footprints, but shared a place with her, which is all I found out about him once I uncovered his identity hours before the media put it out.
Stephen Paddock is quite the cipher. A 64 year old white retiree suddenly decides to start shooting at a crowd of people. This is NOT who I thought the shooter would be. Black guy mad at whites, terrorism, even a known mental case, but it was known now that it was none of these. ISIS has claimed that Paddock was a recent convert but I find that really hard to swallow. So why?
There are only a couple of reasonable explanations. Reports say he had recently taken a lot of money out of his account to gamble with. It is not known whether he won or loss but as he shot up a bunch of people I don't think it went well. He was also allegedly going through a divorce, so it is possible he was having serious money problems, tried to gamble his way back to being in the red and lost it all instead. Then he just snapped and decided to off a bunch of people before killing himself. The other option is less likely but possible. While Paddock has no social media footprint, it is possible he grew to hate Trump and his supporters, most of which would have been at that concert. I hope that is not the reason as it will not help this country one bit and lead the right to condemn leftist violence, which is real but less serious that right wing attacks which are far more numerous.
To make matters even stranger, witnesses say a Hispanic woman was escorted out after screaming that everyone there was about to die, 45 minutes before the shooting. Most likley this is just some nutbag whose insane rantings coincidentally timed with the shooting. But if it wasn't, how did she know? Scott Peterson got the death penalty for the same thing as his claim to his mistress that his wife died recently and this would be his first Christmas without her turned out to be prophetic if he didn't kill her. That statement was made weeks before she disappeared and sunk him in court even though I am pretty sure he didn't do it. But the coincidence, if it was that, sent him to death row. Could this be the same?
No matter the reason, Nevada's lax gun laws sure helped. I have no problem with people owning a machine gun. I do have a problem with ANYONE being able to get a gun regardless of who they are. In this case, it wouldn't have mattered as Paddock has no criminal or mental history background but we should have background checks, licences for firearms and even training courses that have to be repeated every say five years. Letting any idiot get a gun is why we have mass shootings like this. The sad part is, if someone want to kill a lot of people, there is almost nothing the government can do to stop it. You can't legislate insanity and hate.
So pray for the people who died and use this tragedy as an excuse to be NICER to everyone, even Trump supporters. Nazis however are still fair game to punch at will.
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