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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock opened fire after losing $1.5 MILLION while gambling weeks before massacring 60, newly-released FBI files reveal
2023-04-02
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Stephen Paddock,
    ...the brilliant, semi-divorced, retired accountant high roller who, while on anti-anxiety meds, collected a bunch of guns and bump stocks, found a hotel room overlooking a country music festival after checking out several other mass murder opportunities around the country, and went to town. Oddly enough, his father was an FBI-wanted psychopath, while he and his brother collected child p0rn...
    64, burned through more than $1.5million through gambling in the months leading up to the massacre

  • Despite the new revelation, authorities did not determine a cause for Paddock's massacre, saying it 'causes more harm' to the victims

  • The high-stakes gambler carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern America, killing 60 and injuring hundreds more in Las Vegas in 2017
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Posted by:Skidmark

#5  Still smells like bullshit

authorities did not determine a cause for Paddock's massacre, saying it 'causes more harm' to the victims

And there it is. The real reason would cause anger at the FBI because we fucked this up again and it was a terrorist.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-04-02 13:49  

#4  Just bolsters my original contention that the shooter's motivation was that he was a murdering bastard.
Posted by: badanov   2023-04-02 12:31  

#3  ...the brilliant, semi-divorced, retired accountant high roller who, while on anti-anxiety meds......

Shall we read further, or no...?


Posted by: Besoeker   2023-04-02 12:29  

#2  The only certainty about the motivation of the Las Vegas shooter is that the FBI waited SIX years to release this explanation. Obviously either they waited because the real truth was hugely embarrassing, it involved some very important rice bowl somehow, or because the truth would cause a huge, angry reaction from the public.

The real tragedy is that the most Americans now assume immediately that the FBI is hiding something or protecting some elite.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-04-02 12:24  

#1  If this is true information, there was no reason to keep his motive out of the public domain. As we sit and speculate on the contents of manifesto of the latest child murderer, we ask the question why? Do they think we are too stupid to guess? Are they protecting the presumed innocent spree killer that was plugged on cop cam with the murder weapons in her hands? How will the info suppression really have worked out in the end in the case of Qanon Shaman when he eventually gets paid for his jail time.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-04-02 11:40  

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