Will We Never Learn?

Refer back to my blog site entry (Adam Lanza) from 12/16/12: I opined that when loner psychopaths turn against society and commit mass murder with guns, it is partially or mostly their fault, but partially and sometimes,  maybe most of the blame rests with traditional society, whose majorities have victimized individualists and loners with its groupist discrimination practises.

Let me speculate about the Las Vegas Shooter of October, 2017, while freely admitting it is just conjecture with the facts not in. If he was mentally ill, all speculation is suspect anyway. Let us assume that he was just a vicious, sane man with an axe to grind against the world, and that much of his assault on innocent people was carefully, skillfully planned to maximize the amount of murder and hurt that he could inflict upon an uncaring world.

All are wondering what motivated Stephen Paddock to commit mass murder with automatic weapons. He apparently was a millionaire, but his gambling addiction may have been growing apace, so that he knew he would soon be impoverished. If he felt his life was over, and he was suicidal, being selfish and nasty, he decided to take lots of people with him because the world has always treated him like crap, so mass murder was his revenge on a cruel world that had abused him for decades.

His father was a famous criminal wanted by the government. Right there, is a hint. Those with the genetic predisposition to make great criminals or great art stand out, but his father chose to be a skilled criminal instead of individuating.

Stephen apparently made money but lived and moved around to many houses. This is another hint. I move from property to property (home base excluded) to keep groups in each place at bay to prevent them from breaking me, from controlling me, from forcing me back into herd serfdom.  Individualists love their freedom, and keep breaking communal bonds to keep groupists from getting a grip on them.

He may have been alienated from society over his dad's war with society, and never really recovered from the wounding experience.

That brings us to the present. If he has lived 64 years with no earthly ability to bond with any group, but in secret is a wicked loner, his hatred of others could flash out as mass killing.

We Americans and people worldwide have not decided yet to individual-live. Until we do the Adam Lanzas and likely the Stephen Paddocks of the world will attack a society that has left them absolutely alone, friendless and without hope. A heart filled with Satan, hate and despair, is a person capable of doing horrible, cruel things to his neighbors.

I may be off the mark with what motivated Paddock, but I may have captured his motive better than anyone else.

For you bitter, slighted, angry loners and individuators out there. First, bring God into your heart so hope and love and comfort and happiness are yours. Second, forgive the vicious, unjust discrimination against your kind, perpetrated against us every day for decades by a cruel, cocky, stubborn, defiant, insolent majority that do not allow loners group-access when they want or need it and group-abandonment when they desire to be asocial.

Third, do not abuse the gun rights movement, by using your guns to kill innocent neighbors. They have some collective guilt for your problem but patience, outreach and education are how we approach them, not force and vengeful violence.

The gun-grabbers want to take our guns away and set up a socialist dictatorship under which only federal and secret police have guns. That proposal is repugnant, a nonstarter.