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Originally Posted by slamdunkpro
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Stop for a second and consider what we actually know as fact:
Facts:
Shots were fired into the concert crowd from Mandalay bay (video of muzzle flashes and other evidence)
The police broke down a door and found Stephen Paddock dead in a room with multiple firearms and two shot out windows.
As of right now these are all the facts we have.
As of right now:
There is no forensic evidence that any of the weapons found are the murder weapon(s)
There is no eye witness evidence that Paddock did the shooting
There is no forensic evidence (GSR, Window glass splinters) that Paddock did the shooting.
Paddock left no note or manifesto
All conventional wisdom marks Paddock as a outlier mass murderer / spree killer (statistically speaking)
All of this may come and I'm not suggesting he didn't do it but we should really wait for the facts to come in.
Your suspicions assume a great deal and it misses the one major element, motive.
The timing of his wife being outside the country.
The number of guns found at home home, presumably by more than one officer when they went to his home.
Interviews by gun dealers who stated they remembered him buying a weapon.
The large number of weapons he brought to the room.
Again, most important which I repeat. MOTIVE. For what reason would someone try to randomly kill innocent people and place the blame on this guy?
Furthermore, with all the weapons and ammo in the hotel room, and the time he was there (three days, him coming and going from the room), it would be a poorly designed frame job. He would easily be cleared if hotel videos don't show him bringing multiple bags into his room.
If they did clear him, we would have to see video of some other person bringing all of these weapons into his room. With so many working this case and having already watched the video of him in the hotel hallways the last three days, there would already have been another "person of interest" alert being put out to be public.
All of these facts and many other could be raised to debunk your theory, but another major problem would be that this would require that not one person in this investigation; probably in the hundreds from different police forces; would dare leak their suspicions or suggestion of odd evidence or lack of evidence.
If you've ever cooked something in the oven for a long time you will know that a little tinfoil lining the tray is important, too much tinfoil and you are not doing any good.
Last edited by johnnyfry2; 10-03-2017 at 11:23 AM.
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