Breaking: Active Shooter(s) In Mandalay Bay Hotel (NSFW)

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I'm more interested in facts than speculation. ... Maybe his only agenda was to kill and that's it. ... Sometimes there is no explanation except they were evil twisted folks.

I'm the same. Unforturnately, the Left has a name for that - Conspiracy Theorist.

I embrace that name wholeheartedly!

I think this was important enough to question her immediately...

Hey, they have their own conspiracy theories and are regularly posted within this very forum.

You know what pisses me off is how these people like this gal get with these nutcases but then she is totally innocent when the s**t hits the fan. You don't just get all of the benefits of his money - you also have to take some of the responsibility when he goes nuts. You don't live with someone like this guy for several years and not know anything of what he was planning. Total BS. Now I'm just getting mad.

A former boyfriend of one of the sisters, Adam Le Fevre, told NBC News that Danley had two previous marriages — one to a boxer in Australia, and the other to an American — before meeting Paddock in a casino.

Le Fevre said that Danley, a Catholic devoted to her family, was “very different” than Paddock, a methodical casino gambler who used algorithms and spreadsheets.

"She's not very confident,” Le Fevre said. “She had a little Subaru Forester and she would go three blocks out of her way so she didn't have to turn left or cross a big intersection."

"I wouldn't say [their relationship] was lovey dovey," he speculated. "It always seemed to be to be one of convenience."

Le Fevre said Paddock shared with him how he was a success at gambling, saying he would operate with "a pool of money, $1.5 million."

"He would gamble for hours, come home, take a nap and then go back. I'd say ‘How did it go?’ and he would say ‘I just dropped 20 grand’ or ‘I’m up 86 grand.’ He approached it like a business."

Le Fevre described the shooter as “a very reserved and nonemotive person."

"His investments, his gambling were done with military precision,” Le Favre added.

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Separately, a worker at a Starbucks in Mesquite told The Los Angeles Times that she and her colleagues winced whenever the couple came in because Paddock would frequently berate his much shorter partner in public.

"He was so rude to her in front of us," Esperanza Mendoza, the store's supervisor, told the newspaper. "He would glare down at her and say — with a mean attitude — ‘You don’t need my casino card for this. I’m paying for your drink, just like I’m paying for you.’ Then she would softly say, ‘OK,’ and step back behind him."

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Danley “probably was even [more] shocked than us because she is … closer to him than us. To be able to find out the person you love and live with can do such a thing. And you thought you knew the person yourself.

WILD guess here.

The Phillipines is mostly Roman Catholic (a legacy of centuries of Spanish rule), but the big southern island of Mindanao is populated by the Islamic Moro ethnic group. And there is a "Moro Islamic Liberation Front" that is fighting for independence in the south.

If his Phillipino girlfriend was a Moro from the southern island then she might be of Muslim background, and might be jihadist, and might have influenced him to be an ISIS sympathizer.

Going out on a limb.

But has anyone heard anything about what part of the Phillipines she came from?

I'm starting to like your line of thinking. SH90 might know.

I have heard tonight a discussion with a professional who has worked in counter-terrorism for years, and he has a very different theory from the default reasons typically given.

He offers the theory that this was no mentally-ill-spree-rampage. It was a rampage, yes, but the rampage was a means to an end, not the overall objective. So what was the overall objective?

In his view, the end goal was a a political one, and the rampage itself was a political act to achieve a political goal beyond the killings. He thinks that Stephen Paddock could have been motivated quite consciously, in the hope that a massacre on this scale would finally force politicians of both sides to stop taking payoffs from the NRA and start acting to rein in the spread of more and more deadly weapons. He was an older man who had watched both liberal and republican representatives enable the proliferation of weaponry throughout his life, and chose a desperate strategy to enact while he still had time. Sprees like Sandy Hook and others like it may have been the last straw, and planning began some time after that, when it became obvious that despite all the words, nothing was going to change.

Outside the box thinking by the counter terrorist expert? Yes. Possible? Yes. Accurate? We will never really know. But it persuades me more than the default mental illness trope has.

Will things change now? Probably not, given the money trail. Politicians on both sides (he said) take NRA bribes.

WILD guess here.

The Phillipines is mostly Roman Catholic (a legacy of centuries of Spanish rule), but the big southern island of Mindanao is populated by the Islamic Moro ethnic group. And there is a "Moro Islamic Liberation Front" that is fighting for independence in the south.

If his Phillipino girlfriend was a Moro from the southern island then she might be of Muslim background, and might be jihadist, and might have influenced him to be an ISIS sympathizer.

Going out on a limb.

But has anyone heard anything about what part of the Phillipines she came from?

http://lombardlaw.com/firm-overview/

She's in the 4th hour of the interview.

My question is was she forced to return or did she come back voluntarily?

The girlfriend of Las Vegas attacker Stephen Paddock told family she had a "clean conscience" ahead of her expected questioning Wednesday at the FBI's Los Angeles field office.

I called her up immediately and she said, 'Relax, we shouldn't worry about it. I'll fix it. Do not panic. I have a clean conscience,'" her bother, Reynaldo Bustos, told ABC News.

You're right, her family is in Australia.