Originally Posted by
sidders
Now the focus of the police work is a search for Paddock's motive. Apparently, their hopes are pinned on his girl friend: the only one who might have known what was going on in his head.
Give over. Paddock was clearly a psychopath. In all likelihood even he didn't know what was going on in his head. The real motive belonged to the country NOT the killer.
I saw an interview with a Welsh guy who was hitchhiking across America and he stopped off at one of the gun shops where Paddock bought some of his arsenal - mainly because he was fascinated, never having seen a gun shop before. The assistant told him how dangerous hitchhiking was and how he needed to carry a gun to protect himself.
The Welshman had no intention of buying a gun, having travelled thus far without mishap, but that didn't stop the assistant turning up the ante in his bid for a sale.
'The right to bear arms' doesn't mean everyone, regardless of sanity or history, should possess a gun. In America (and I've been there often) the gun has legendary status. It is how the west was won, it is linked with a man's virility and a woman's vulnerability. It is a means of fame.
Everyone knows Las Vegas will happen again and everyone knows that the Americans will do nothing about it... because psychopathy is deep within the national character.
No surprise really then that they voted in a psychopath as their 'chief of staff'.