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WARNING: THIS IS ONLY A THEORY!

I could be completely wrong and may be proven so quickly over the days and weeks to come.

The Las Vegas murders have inspired a lot of speculation since speculation is pretty much all anyone has right now. Political operatives on both sides of the spectrum want to claim the other side is responsible, so all reporting has to be taken with a serious pinch of salt, an eye toward past performance during other related crises and an understanding of the biases coming from different commentators.

The Main Stream Media's Shtick

Source - Dictionary.com

In past shootings, there have been a few characteristics of the MSM reporting before facts emerge.

If the fact-finders at the MSM networks suspect the shooter might be Islamic/ISIS-affiliated, we usually see a great reluctance to report the shooter's name and we hear a lot about how we shouldn't rush to judgement before the authorities confirm that terrorism was the cause. The knowledge that the shooter was shouting "Allahu Ackbar" as he mowed down anyone he could comes out fairly slowly considering that must have been one of the first facts the witnesses on the ground reported.

If the shooter was a person of color, we see a great reluctance to publish any pictures of the attacker and we hear about how such violence can be inspired by poor economic circumstances that cause such frustration such attacks should just be expected. In one case recently, the attacker's photograph was even altered to make him appear "less black" in the initial reporting of his attack on multiple police officers.

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If the shooter was white, we usually quickly hear the name and see the face of the shooter accompanied by information on local militia groups, preppers, tea party activists, NRA affiliations and speculation that Rush Limbaugh's radio show is so popular among white people that he may have inspired the hate causing the attack.

In all cases of the last scenario in the past years - my memory really only goes back to the Oaklahoma City bombing, so that's where my frame of reference starts - it eventually comes out that the shooter has no affiliations to typical right-wing organizations and causes and is often either apolitical or even loyal to the political left. They have not been Christian, as is often initially speculated, but often atheistic, sometimes even involved in satanic worship (as in the case of Senator Gifford's shooter).

A Middle Aged White Man

Because the initial reporting of the Las Vegas attack followed the third pattern - we were quickly told Steven Paddock's name and shown his face, displaying he was clearly a middle-aged white man - I believe we are going to find out that this is a political (anti-Trump) attack rather than an Islamic (religious) attack, even with ISIS claiming responsibility.

Stephen Paddock - Vegas Shooter

What Gets a Fanatical Shooter Shooting?

I suspect this is a follow up to the baseball diamond shooting. It is interesting that Steve Scalise just received a standing ovation on the House floor and he's being treated as a hero.

This must really irritate those who have become unbalanced by the last election. It could 'trigger' a seemingly non-violent leftist to take extreme violent action, although reports filtering through as today moves on show a degree of planning on Paddock's part that indicates he had this kind of action in mind longer than the few days it's been since Steve Scalise came back to his job.

James Hodgkinson - Washington Shooter

Buncha Red-Necks Clinging to their Guns and Religion

Country music festivals are stereotypically thought of as a bunch of red-neck hicks clinging to their guns and religion, even though in reality it's a mixed crowd. If a shooter was looking for an opportunity to initiate a "war on Trump", he may have seen this gathering as a prime target.

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It's interesting that today the MSM has definitely latched onto this fact but instead of speculating about Steven Paddock's reasoning for shooting into the crowd, they are acting as if such action is somehow understandable and are instead discussing whether this will make President Trump actually unhappy about the murders instead of just faking it as he is supposedly doing when it comes to the hurricane tragedy in Puerto Rico.

Why So Quiet?

The MSM will not even speculate about Steven Paddock's political history. They're keeping strangely quiet about it. We usually hear the MSM use the words "right-wing" and "terror" when they have evidence that there is any association that direction. In this case, they have told us a variety of publicly-available details such as Paddock's lapsed medical license and information about his real estate properties and gambling debts. They haven't mentioned (at least, not that I'm aware of) an easily-available public detail...

Is Steven Paddock registered to vote and if so, with what affiliation?

Why won't they tell us if he's registered as a Democrat or Republican? I suspect they know, but are not telling us. It's an obvious conclusion that someone of a leftist persuasion might be more likely to target a supposed holdout for right-leaning voters like a country music festival. What's interesting is the reluctance to confirm this and the lack of interest in why a difference in politics should inspire someone to massacre a bunch of people.

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It's a Game to the MSM

The MSM is always trying to control the flow of information to maintain their narrative. The evidence isn't in yet, but analyzing the information we are being fed, we can get hints as to what they already know and are trying to suppress from us in order to maintain and further their narrative.

Their narrative at present is that the rage against the right side of the political spectrum is understandable, expected and defendable. If anything truly despicable like this happens, guns are at fault and should be removed from any citizen's hands.

It's an interesting side note that this particular man was willing to modify legal guns to become something that's been banned for many years: a fully automatic weapon (or at least, a simulated one). One wonders if guns were made completely illegal if someone like Steven Paddock might have the savvy to just manufacture his own from scratch, which makes all the gun control in the world completely pointless.

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Eventually the truth will leak out and the MSM is going to have to start telling the facts they actually know, but they probably won't do that until they've beaten their wished-for points into everyone's heads and obscured the actual truth about what happened. They are probably simply hoping for a next big story that will overshadow the emerging details about Paddock's deadly rampage and are treading water until it happens.

MSM Loves to Tell Us How To Think

This gem is circulating from the famous and trendy propaganda rag "The New Yorker":

I think I may know the answer to this...

BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE SHOOTER WAS A LEFTIST

..that's embarrassing.

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