Comments by "Hallands Menved" (@Hallands.) on "Did the Las Vegas shooter plan a different attack? | Al Jazeera English" video.
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Matt Molenda Yes, of course you and I and a dog named blue can figure out ways to conceal or maybe just tone down such a hobby. And his brother did say something about him having guns as a hobby, but seemed to think it was mainly handguns.
But the planning takes some coherence and doing. He can't have been a victim of an acute psychosis, because that would rob him of his planning ability and the ability to act normally, both. Even a high functioning paranoid schizophrenic would hardly posses the ability to keep the dissimulation going for years unless living reclused, like the una-bomber. If he was crazed by hatred and able to hide it from his girlfriend, it must have developed more acutely. Therefore there must be some trigger event in his recent past - or something really dark is behind this. Was he per chance terminally ill? Had he gambled his fortune away? Remember we're talking about a well functioning man, wealthy from his former employment...
Of the cases I recall, his most closely resembles Anders Bering Breivik, but he was an obsessed fanatic with a huge trail of revealing "manifestos" on the web and felt so right about his gruesome deed, that he had no intention of letting himself be killed. He still seems to think himself some kind of a misunderstood hero.
Nothing quite seems to fit here...
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