20 guns, and the guy is allegedly a multi-millionaire real estate investor. Getting stranger.
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Yeah no kidding . . . This guy does not fit the profile whatsoever, at all, even by recent US mass shooting standards.
That said, who knows what his medical history is like, or anything that may have been undiagnosed - anything from brain injury to depression.
I stopped trying to figure any of this out after Sandy Hook but this is weird as hell and almost makes me want to figure it out but that's a pointless exercise anymore, I think.
Whitman’s body was taken to the morgue, his skull was put under the bone saw, and the medical examiner lifted the brain from its vault. He discovered that Whitman’s brain harbored a tumor the diameter of a nickel. This tumor, called a glioblastoma, had blossomed from beneath a structure called the thalamus, impinged on the hypothalamus, and compressed a third region called the amygdala. The amygdala is involved in emotional regulation, especially of fear and aggression. By the late 1800s, researchers had discovered that damage to the amygdala caused emotional and social disturbances. In the 1930s, the researchers Heinrich Klüver and Paul Bucy demonstrated that damage to the amygdala in monkeys led to a constellation of symptoms, including lack of fear, blunting of emotion, and overreaction. Female monkeys with amygdala damage often neglected or physically abused their infants. In humans, activity in the amygdala increases when people are shown threatening faces, are put into frightening situations, or experience social phobias. Whitman’s intuition about himself—that something in his brain was changing his behavior—was spot-on.
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Yeah no kidding . . . This guy does not fit the profile whatsoever, at all, even by recent US mass shooting standards.
That said, who knows what his medical history is like, or anything that may have been undiagnosed - anything from brain injury to depression.
The whole incident just seems to well calculated to be the product of mental illness. The timing, the venue, the layout of the hotel room, the weapon use, etc... It all just seems way to thought out to be the act of a deranged person or a crime of opportunity.
This crime has all the earmarks of a terrorist incident, but the perpetrator is far from typical. This could be another Timothy McVeigh type incident. Even then, McVeigh was an angry young man. The shooter here is a retired accountant, who was fairly well off, lived with his girlfriend, and spent much of this time on luxury cruises playing poker.
I don't know what a false flag is, can you elaborate? What is this about with regards to this tragedy?
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Sure, but in the US you can get something like this for a semi-automatic AR-15 for a few hundred dollars which makes the distinction basically irrelevant:
Go to around 0:45 if you want to avoid most of the ridiculous video and just see what's possible with a perfectly legal accessory.
That is insane. I didn't know those existed.
It's actually genius, and scary.
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The current systems and checks allow someone (ANYONE) to legally purchase 30+ firearms, explosives and other devices. I don't really care what counter argument you make, that's insane and wildly irresponsible from a societal perspective.
My parents were in Las Vegas a bit down the strip from the incident. They're flying home right now.
