Police are still pondering a motive. (click here)
There are other reports that state gambling transactions in the tens of thousands, but, not a million per night. Evidently, there are reports from police that Mr. Paddock was planning bigger events to kill even more people. When I heard about the unrealistic world Mr. Paddock lived in, it reminded me of the Columbine shootings.
Dyland Klebold and Eric Harris carried the same outrageous ideology when cutting down innocent people in the high school. They were going to kill and bomb the school to end every life they could find and then they intended to fly a jet into a major USA city to further kill Americans along with themselves.
The Columbine shooters never expected to die in their initial attack either. They ultimately would perish in a flame of glory when the jet crashed to the ground.
The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective. (click here)
Is there a mental health diagnosis that applies to people with these grandiose ideologies?
The tricky part is these shooters know if their intentions were to leak out to others, they could be taken into custody for evaluation to the intent of stating such ideas to others. One of the reasons a person is removed from their freedom is to determine if they are homicidal and/or suicidal. Mr. Paddock was definitely a man carrying a deranged sense of self with grandiose ideas about his personal power. The weaponry he obtained does prove Paddock was able to validate his great power by obtaining any sense of weaponry on the market, including, a very anti-social method of changing a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.
Gun enthusiasts sometimes state, the government can't be trusted with their liberties, hence, the need for weapons of mass murder.
Steven Paddock was a wealthy man able to obtain any source of power, however, it was he that we should fear and not the government he profoundly sought to defeat in his choice of weapons. He was prepared to take on the authorities seen by a camera placed in halls. Is there any question Steven Paddock was an addict to gambling, Valium and power? No one saw this coming? No one detected his hubris in life? An ideology so toxic it kills?
