Free Republic had a report from someone who lived in the area. One of their friends knew this character in passing, and said he was a textbook degenerate gambler who was always drunk – and he was a leftie. Not surprising given the girlfriend’s type.

Just a couple of observations:

Reports that he only shot about 200 rounds seem odd. Almost 60 kills rapid fire, with only 200 rounds would be impressive shooting for a civilian with a semi-automatic, at 400 yards, in the dark, at moving shadows, and almost straight down, even if the targets were tightly packed. But spraying a sustained machinegun burst at a field 400 yards away, at a steep angle, seems a poor way to score kills if all you have are 200 rounds. Even three-shot-burst would be piss poor, as it would only give you 66 trigger pulls. I’d think it more likely that either there must have been more rounds fired, or the rounds were +P lighter-weight hollowpoints, to the point of almost exploding more than expanding, and passing through multiple people laying on top of each other on the ground.

Also strange is Police took 72 minutes to get into the room because he kept spraying bullets through the walls as officers approached. Given he had brought 20 some-odd guns with him, and bringing cases of ammo and clips as well should not have been a problem, only firing 200 rounds in that time frame seems improbable.

If there are only 200 shell casings in his room, that would seem odd, especially since many of those would probably have been fired at responding officers. Not impossible, but odd. My guess is there were more rounds fired. Hopefully we were just misinformed, and the rest of the shell casings didn’t drive away in white box trucks.

Hopefully he was the only shooter, and we don’t have another one of these happen in a few days.

Then there is the Hispanic woman:

One woman, who was at the Route 91 music event, claimed an unidentified woman had told other concert-goers they were “all going to die” after pushing her way to the front of the venue. The witness, 21, told local news: “She had been messing with a lady in front of her and telling her she was going to die, that we were all going to die. “They escorted her out to make her stop messing around with all the other people, but none of us knew it was going to be serious.” She described the lady as Hispanic. The lady was escorted from the venue along with a man. The unnamed witness, who was attending the event on her 21st birthday, described the pair as short, both around 5 ft 5ins to 5ft 6ins tall, and looked like “everyday people”.

Who was she? Who was she warning in that crowd? Why? How did she know what was going to happen? Did Marilou’s Philippino relatives look Hispanic? Was she an accomplice? Why aren’t police circulating surveillance camera footage from the hotel to find her. Seems she was ruled out as an issue awful fast.

Then there are the run-ins with Police:

Paddock was not known to the federal authorities, but was known to local law enforcement, according to NBC News.

That are no longer part of the narrative for some reason:

Authorities said a sweep of law enforcement databases showed Paddock had no known run-ins with Police…

It would seem that it would take something big for a multi-millionaire real estate investor to cross paths with Police in a way that the cops would make note of him. And it would seem that the something big might reveal something about why this happened. Was he associating with Islamic radicals? Black Lives Matters? Mafia loan sharks? Cartels? Did he just do something minor like vandalize a Police car while drunk but evade getting arrested due to lack of evidence, and cops periodically kept an eye on him, but didn’t bust him? Was he a letter writer? An anti-cop history might point to a motive given the NFL furor.

Then there is the shooter not leaving any sort of motive. One report says he had a camera in the room:

One official said Paddock had a camera mounted in the room…

If there is a camera there, and no video in it explaining to all his enemies how he is about to win, then that is atypical. Narcissists love to be the center of attention, and filming himself would give him that high in a way few other methods would. He would be sitting, picturing everyone looking at him, listening to him, hanging on his every word. There is no way a narcissist doesn’t make a “Here is how completely I won, and what you should have done for me, to prevent me from having to kill you all” video.

A character like this is doing this type of shooting for a specific reason. He wants to get back at somebody. Narcissists are notorious grievance accumulators. The grievances may be ridiculous – like he wasn’t asked for his opinions on subjects, and thus felt slighted, or some stupid thing. But he has a grievance. The shooting is to let everyone know they didn’t win – he did. That is also why they self terminate. a Police officer killing them is seen in their mind as a loss. Self-terminating is the final act of taking control and winning in the narcissist mind. They won, and you can’t do anything to them.

In a real case of narcissist poisoning I know of, the victim was sick, but assumed they had an illness. The narcissist actually sat down and told the victim he had discussed the case with a doctor he knew, and the doctor said the victim wouldn’t know now what was going on, but they would eventually figure out why they were sick one day, and it would all make sense. It was dismissed at the time as strange, but afterward, when it was realized it was the narcissist doing it, the victim realized the narcissist was dying inside because he was “taking revenge” but the victim didn’t know it, so the victim wasn’t frustrated and angry. In the narcissist’s mind, he was planting a seed that would anger the victim any time they thought of it, once they figured out what was going on, and realized the narcissist had done it.

Narcissists need to see you in agony, and feeling helpless to stop them. It is a power trip. Just making you miserable isn’t enough.

If this guy killed all these people, he would want everyone to know he did this, to know why he did this, and to realize he had taken all the power and won, and now we are all powerless. If there is a camera, there is a video. If we don’t see it, it has been hidden for some reason. I assume this guy had known anti-establishment/anti-republican tendencies, and it will eventually come out he didn’t like Trump. Maybe he is an anti-cop leftie.

But it will be frustrating if this becomes yet another mass-casualty incident with loose ends which we never hear about being tied up.

One thing I do hope comes from this is the bomb on a drone, which can be flown by patrol officers overseeing such an event right to the shooter and detonated immediately. For an officer on the ground, looking at a computer screen as he flew right into that window and detonated would have been a great experience, and brought this to a stop immediately. In an age of mass casualty incidents, officers need an in-extremis method of taking out a subject fast that doesn’t require 18 months of intensive sniper training, or bulletproof bodies.

It is an idea whose time has come.

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