Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.

• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You don’t get a collection of guns like that without being right wing. Doesn’t matter who you’re acquainted with. He also had a pretty big victim complex when it came to his all-consuming gambling addiction and was pissed about not being comped with all the perks he thought he deserved for the about of money he spent.

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  • John_McMurray@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gun ownership isn’t a right wing exclusive trail, unless you’re one of those people who just move anything they don’t like over the “right”.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know who the Bundy’s are. Freeloading terrorists who should be in prison.

      Yeah, I absolutely did pigeonhole the shooter as a right winger because that’s who is most likely to own the guns he did and fetishize them to the point he needed bump stocks for lols. Just stating that lefties own guns doesn’t offer anything to the conversation.

      One article suggests:

      Paddock appeared fixated on three pillars of right-wing extremism: anti-government conspiracy theories, threats to Second Amendment rights, and overly burdensome taxes.

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      a man who loathed restrictions on gun ownership and believed that the Second Amendment was under siege,

      So despite law enforcement going way out of its way to avoid mention of paddock’s leanings, it is highly likely he was a regular right wing/libertarian nutter.

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      • John_McMurray@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you actually believe the bump stock story, I can’t be bothered continuing this.

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  • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From what I understand, he had also recently taken a serious nosedive in the finance department, and while he was still a high roller, he was not the HIGH ROLLER he had been in years before, and he seemed to regard that as an injury to his pride.

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• morriscox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I live there. I don’t know if the shooter knew about the Bundy’s story but it’s very unlikely that they ever met. The shooter lived north of the interstate, in one of those fancy estates. I happen to know one of his neighbors. The Bundys lived on the other side of Bunkerville.

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