Las Vegas Massacre

Stephen Paddock, a retired accountant, one time postman and millionaire decided to take people with him when he went. He killed 58 people and wounded another 500 plus in the course of ten minutes on 2 October 2017. Why did he do it? His two divorces were sorted out so why? One answer, Pat Buchanan's answer is a bid for fame. It worked well.

This piece of news, a record breaking massacre has served the purposes of the Main Stream Media by distracting us from the serious problems that politicians have inflicted on us, the stream of murders, rapes, burglaries etc. committed by Illegal Immigrants & Third World parasites generally. It gave them an excuse to write a lot of ill informed nonsense as well as the anti-gun lies. The Propaganda machines want us disarmed; they hate the Armed Citizen, the man who can defend himself against the servants of the New World Order.

Sensible comment comes from Mark Steyn at  https://www.steynonline.com/8152/slaughter-on-the-strip & https://www.steynonline.com/8157/the-empty-paddock-cont part II. The Wikipedia takes a position, pretending to take it down the middle @ Stephen Paddock.

Las Vegas Gunman Kills 58 & Wounds 515 [ 2 October 2017 ]
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Police say 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock used automatic weapons to rain down gunfire on a crowd of 22,000 people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival Sunday night, from his room across the street in the Mandalay Bay hotel.

Headliner Jason Aldean was in the middle of his set just after 10pm when a rumble of gunfire rang out, the sounds of screams and stampeding humans cutting through the country music. Police were able to pinpoint Paddock relatively quickly since the gunfire he emitted triggered the smoke alarms in the hotel. They used explosives to blow the door off his room, but by then it was too late - Paddock had shot himself dead............

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack [ It lied - Editor ].
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Mr Paddock seems to have been a normal White Man, albeit his girl friend is a Filipina or some such. The anti-gun lobby will be on this one like flies on the proverbial. They will duly ignore the fact that the Number of murders in America is around 15,000 a year. They will resolutely deny that most of them are perpetrated by Blacks. See an analysis, which predates this massacre, Who Commits Murder In America?. The answer is circa seven or eight out of ten blacks. Hispanics get around two more. White people are responsible for a modest 5 percent or so - see e.g. Chicago More Dangerous Than Afghanistan.

 

American With Divorce Problem Takes 58 Dead With Him  [ 4 October 2017 ]
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Thank you to the 1,000+ Minnesotans who came out to fill the beautiful Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis last night. I'll say a little more about the evening itself later in the week, but it took place in the shadow of the deadliest single-shooter mass murder in American history less than 24 hours before.........................

I had thought by last night we would know more about Stephen Craig Paddock. By now the usual social-media non-paper trail and petty-crime police records and mental-health issues have emerged. Instead, nothing has - except some bizarrely distinctive details: He wasn't a loner, but lived with his girlfriend - an Australian citizen currently in Japan, but planning to return to the US today. He was not the usual loser, but a multi-millionaire. He had no apparent interest in guns and no military training, but he demonstrated remarkably lethal proficiency, either with semi-automatics he modified or with a genuine automatic he somehow acquired, a weapon that has been used in precisely three crimes in America since 1934. He didn't "snap", but instead calmly planned his act, identifying and securing the perfect corner suite in a massive hotel and then discreetly moving in dozens of weapons over four days and constructing platforms in front of those two windows................

As I said on stage at the Guthrie Theatre, I had intended to talk about other matters - about the weekend's latest "vehicle attack" in Edmonton, Alberta, by a Somali immigrant (with an Isis flag on the seat of his car), who stabbed one policeman and ran over four people at Commonwealth Stadium; and about the two young women fatally stabbed (one with her throat slit) at the main rail station in Marseilles, by an illegal immigrant from the Maghreb [ see French Army Kill Islamic Murderer In Marseille ]; and the seventeen-year-old from the northern Caucasus who's just gone on trial in Oslo after being found with a bomb the day after the Stockholm jihad-motorist struck. But all these events, by fiercely committed ideologues in multiple jurisdictions in service of a global civilizational struggle, were all but forgotten, banished to the in-brief sidebars at the foot of page 37 by one apparently non-ideological American retiree who, unlike the aforementioned, was extremely good at killing large numbers of people..........

We have been, for the most part, very lucky. The foot-soldiers of the jihad are mostly dimwit Mohammedans: they have youth and energy and ideological fervor, but they are also largely stupid and unimaginative. The old guys are less energetic, but also less stupid: if Isis were right and there really were Islamic Stephen Paddocks - 40-50-60-somethings, worldly and full of low cunning - things would be very different...
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If Mr Paddock had shot the wife instead, she would have stopped annoying him, the divorce action would have gone away. Everyone would have been happy apart from lawyers with so many customers. As usual Mark Steyn is so much more clear sighted & relevant than me & the Main Stream Media as well. The real point, the existential issue is that Islamic crazies full of hate are being imported to kill us, to cause Ethnic Fouling In America, Ethnic Fouling in the rest of civilization, to be followed by Genocide.

 

Piers Morgan Says Guns Should Be Banned After Las Vegas Massacre  [ 4 October 2017 ]
Morgan is keeping very quiet about share fraud and phone hacking. It may be that he is not a thief in America as a fugitive from justice. NB The Daily Mail is twisting the story to make Morgan look good.

 

The Dead Soul of Stephen Paddock
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What was his motive? Why did he do it?

Why did Stephen Paddock, 64, rent rooms at the Mandalay Bay hotel, sneak in an arsenal of guns, a dozen of them converted to fully automatic, and rain down death on a country music concert?

“We will never know,” writes columnist Eugene Robinson.

“There can be no rational argument for mass murder … nothing can really explain the decision to spray thousands of concert-goers with automatic weapons fire, killing at least 59 and injuring hundreds more.”

But while there can be no justification for mass murder, there is an explanation. And like Edgar Allan Poe’s “Purloined Letter,” it is right there in front of us, in plain sight.

Having chosen to end his life, Paddock resolved to go out in a blaze of publicity. This nobody would leave this life as somebody we would have to remember. He would immortalize himself, as did Lee Harvey Oswald.

Reportedly, Paddock even filmed himself during his massacre.

Ex-Marine sniper Charles Whitman, who murdered his wife and mother, and then climbed up into the Texas University Tower in Austin, 50 years ago, to shoot down 46 people and kill 15, is the prototype.

Whitman’s slaughter ended after 96 minutes when a cop climbed up in that tower and shot him. Yet, half a century on, Whitman remains famous. Many of us can yet recall his name and face.

Like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold before Columbine, and Dylan Roof before his sickening atrocity at the black church in Charleston, Paddock wanted to live on as one of the great mass murderers in U.S. history. And he has succeeded. We are today paying him in the currency he craved. He is famous, and we have made him so.

Monday, the president spoke at the White House on the “act of pure evil” Paddock perpetrated Sunday night. Network and cable TV anchors and correspondents stampeded to Las Vegas to dig into his background and motivation.

Commentators discoursed on the meaning of it all. Congress is aflame with demands for gun laws against “bump stocks” that turn semiautomatic AR-15s and AK-47s to fully automatic. Paddock’s deeds pushed Puerto Rico and North Korea out of the headlines. By Wednesday, Trump himself was in Vegas. Five days later, police and FBI are still searching for the “motive.”

Whatever caused Paddock to conclude that ending his life was preferable to living it is not the crucial question. Suicides are not uncommon in America. About 3 of every 4 are carried out by white males; 121 are committed daily, with gunshot a common method.

The real question is what turned Paddock into a psychopath without conscience or a moral code that would scream to him that what he was planning was pure evil.

Unlike ISIS terrorists who believe they are soldiers of Islam doing the will of Allah, and will achieve paradise for slaughtering infidels, Stephen Paddock did not believe anything like this.

He coolly and patiently plotted mass murder almost for sport. He rented a hotel suite with windows overlooking a coming country music concert, his fighting fort. He ferried in, over five days, half his home arsenal of 40-some guns, with the semi-automatic assault rifles modified to fire fully automatic. He installed cameras to alert him to when police were about to break in and kill him. Then he smashed the windows on his 32nd floor suite, and began firing for 12 minutes.

Paddock murdered 59 people he did not know and against whom he had no grievance. How did he come to be a man who treated fellow humans as vermin? And does this say something about our civilization?

In “The Brothers Karamazov,” novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky has his character Ivan say, “If God is dead, all things are permissible.”

What Ivan meant is that if God does not exist, the idea of God’s law, of heaven or hell as reward or punishment, is nonsense. And if it is, there is no man-made law that can deter men who have decided to “end it all.”

Consider. Nevada has a death penalty for the mass murder Paddock was preparing to commit. But as he had already decided to end his life after shooting scores of innocent people, no death penalty or any other threatened state punishment could deter him.

Why not carry out his atrocity and end his life knowing that, within days, all of America would know who Stephen Paddock was?

In Shakespeare, Hamlet declares, “Conscience doth make cowards of us all.” And so, fearing damnation, Hamlet recoils from ending his life or exacting revenge on the king he believes seduced his mother into complicity in the murder of his father.

In Stephen Paddock, the conscience was dead. He was a dead soul, a moral nihilist, a post-Christian man in a post-Christian age, a monster.

Yet, we are going to see more such men, for we no longer have a convincing answer to that oldest of questions, “Why not?”
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Pat Buchanan says it was a very successful publicity stunt, one that made a nonentity famous. It was an act of Nihilism,  the idea that nothing matters. His father made it onto the FBI's list, its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives; a rather bleak claim to fame. Perhaps that is a hint at his motives.

 

Mainstream Media Waffle: 
Vegas shooter's girlfriend says he would 'SCREAM in bed at night' as investigators say he may have been in 'mental anguish' - but still don't know why he murdered 58 people Heroic British firefighter and soldier tell how they battled to save dozens of victims of the Vegas gun massacre after running TOWARDS the sound of the shooting  Final two victims of Mandalay Massacre are identified: A retired truck driver who was with his fiancee and a student who was at the concert with his girlfriend as a birthday present EXCLUSIVE: Millionaire Stephen Paddock was a regular at retirees' $3.50 lunch but barely spoke a word to anyone - and asked the cook for her enchiladas recipe the day he drove to Las Vegas to commit mass murder

 

The Air Force veteran who invented the controversial 'bump stock' device used by the Las Vegas gunmen Thousands gather for emotional funeral and candlelit vigil to remember off-duty Las Vegas police officer and father-of-two who was killed in Mandalay Bay massacre EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Paddock's girlfriend spent the last hours before massacre with her 'medicine man' brother in Philippines family home where they sell smoked fish and eggs

 

https://steynonline.com/8157/the-empty-paddock-cont

https://www.steynonline.com/8157/the-empty-paddock-cont part II

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5048521/Las-Vegas-shooter-s-brother-threatens-nursing-home-workers.html

Paddock's Brother Threatens To Murder People & Liked Pornography  [

 

 

Stephen Paddock ex Wiki
Stephen Craig Paddock (April 9, 1953 – October 1, 2017)[1] was an American mass murderer[2][3][4] who committed the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting. He fired semi-automatic weapons into a crowd of approximately 22,000 concertgoers at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on October 1, 2017,[5][6] killing 58 people.[7]

Paddock lived in Mesquite, Nevada. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound thus ending the shooting attack. The incident surpassed the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, with at least 59 fatalities (including Paddock) and 489 injured.[8]

Paddock was born in Iowa.[9] He grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and Sun Valley, California,[7] as one of four sons of Benjamin Hoskins Paddock. The elder Paddock was a convicted bank robber who escaped prison in 1969[7] and subsequently had his name added to the FBI's most-wanted list.[10] Stephen was 15 years old at the time.[10] According to his brother, they never really knew their father as he was never with their mother.[11]

Stephen Paddock graduated from John H. Francis Polytechnic High School in 1971,[12] and from California State University, Northridge in 1977, with a degree in business administration.[13]

Paddock worked for the Federal government from about 1975 to 1985.[14] He was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in 1976–1978.[14] He worked for six years as an IRS agent, until 1984.[14] He was a federal auditor for one year, in 1985, focusing on defense contractors.[14] Towards the end of the 1980s, he worked for three years as an internal auditor for a company that later merged to form Lockheed Martin.[14] Paddock's work career after this period is not clear. However, it is known he lived in the Los Angeles area and owned personal property in areas including Panorama City, Cerritos and North Hollywood, from the 1970s to early 2000s.[14][15] He owned rental properties around the country, including two run-down apartment buildings in the working-class neighborhood of Hawthorne, California.[15] He owned an apartment complex in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, which he sold in 2012.[15] Relatives said Paddock was worth at least $2 million.[16]

Personal life

According to court records, Paddock was married and divorced twice; first from 1977 to 1979, and for the second time from 1985 to 1990, both marriages in Los Angeles County, California.[5] From 2013 to 2015, Paddock lived in a retirement community in Melbourne, Florida.[5]

Paddock previously lived in Texas and in California.[17][7] In 2010, Paddock applied for and received a U.S. passport.[18] He lived in a number of retirement communities. In 2016 he moved 2,400 miles (3,900 km) west across the country from Melbourne, Florida,[5] to a new retiree home in Mesquite, Nevada,[19] about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.[5] According to property records, he bought a single-family home there in 2013.[17] For several years, he lived with his girlfriend in a retirement community in Reno, Nevada in addition to his home in Mesquite.[17]

An Australian acquaintance and boyfriend of Paddock's girlfriend's sister, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he met Paddock in the United States and the Philippines. He described Paddock as intelligent and methodical. He alleged Paddock won a lot of money applying algorithms to gambling on machines (not on tables), and that he studied gun laws. The anonymous acquaintance considered Paddock a generous man whenever he and his girlfriend visited him.[20] The Mesquite Starbucks baristas serving Paddock and his girlfriend in their hometown described him as rude, mean, and frequently berating his girlfriend.[21]

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