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heavyblinker -> RE: Las Vegas shooting unfolding now (10/2/2017 2:05:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyPact
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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker
He did it because in the US, anyone at any moment could get drunk, depressed, have a bad dream, or just suddenly snap, take out their legally purchased automatic or semi-automatic weapons of war and kill a bunch of people.
I know the answer wasn't only meant to be taken literally (aka cheeky) but it just strikes me that, in this case, this has got to be some serious planning. We're talking about an individual who made hotel reservations in advance for a good shooting location, checked in the Thursday before, the girlfriend just happens to be on vacation the same weekend of the event, and so on.
There's nothing about this that says it was a spur of the moment thing.
It sounds like he spent a lot of time at casinos. I'm not sure the girlfriend being on vacation is evidence of it being thought out.
He had a lot of guns in his hotel room, but I don't see how that's so rare in the US... people carry guns around all the time, nobody does anything to stop it.
He could have just been hanging out in his room with his usual stash of guns, looked down at the concert, got the idea, and decided to go through with it.
If he was impulsive by nature, which it sort of sounds like he was, it really isn't a stretch.
I know everyone wants to look for deeper meaning in things like this, but I know people for whom a week of hardcore drinking would be enough for them to snap like this.
Serious alcoholics can get pretty messed up... it starts as a party, then goes wrong, then gets even more wrong, and finally shit like this is possible.
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