It's a believable theory. The last thing Las Vegas casinos would have wanted as a headline is "Las Vegas gunman was a millionaire who lost almost everything gambling, leading to depression and the worst mass shooting in US history".
The longer authorities take with the investigation, wrong timelines, video surveillance withheld, people missing, etc etc...the more this looks like some sort of "cover-up". Not as in an "all-out conspiracy theory" but possibly covering up a motive like you theorize or some sort of liability of the casinos.
Yes....exactly. The shooter's gambling losses should have been the first thing the authorities checked out. Has anyone seen a report on that. I think not...because there is no report on that.
Anyone who lives or has lived in Las Vegas knows how corrupt it is...how the hotel owners control the politicians and the police dept.
The last thing the 'big boys' want talked about by the msm is gambling losses and suicides as in how many people have killed themselves because of losing money gambling in vegas casinoes.
There are too many things that just does not jibe with a disgruntled gaming addict scenario.
1. He wired over 100K to his gal pal in the Philippines. A gambling addict would sooner use that 100K to try to win back their losses before they would just give it away.
There is no doubt he was a gambling addict...he was observed on video playing video poker just a short time before he started shooting people...had to get that 'last fix' in.
There is no doubt he wired 100,000 dollars to his g/f in the phillippines.
These two things alone do not mean all that much....one has to combine all the known factors about the shooter to try and arrive at some logical motive for his killing of innocent people.
One also should try and analyze what the authorities in vegas are doing or are not doing...thereby also perhaps gaining some insight into the shooters motive.
Also...one needs to analyze what might have drove the shooter to go suicidal....he was intelligent and according to the autopsy report...there was nothing clinically wrong with his brain. Thus he had to know he would either be killed or he would kill himself...he had screwed the door to his hotel room shut....which means he did not intend to try and get away as some authorities in vegas suggested.
Logically if one can determine what might have caused the shooter to become suicidal then that should shed some light on his motive. A lot of people committ suicide but they do not decide to take the lives of innocent people before they kill themselves.
Thus his motive can be viewed in certain ways...he was trying to send some kind of message...but what? he left no notes in regards to why he did what he did. Isis did claim he was a recruit...but that is not credible and certainly no evidence for it that I have seen. Perhaps he was satisfied with just killing a lot of people...as in it gave him some sort of depraved pleasure? A sociopath or psychopath? Well his father had been diagnosed as a psychopath and it is known that some mental illness runs in families....so perhaps he was just crazy and wanted to take a lot of innocent people with him....and wanted to be remembered for that?
One significant factor stands out that has not been considered...and it is a factor that has triggered many suicides in Las Vegas....he could have become suicidal because of his gambling losses. But that has not even been considered by the authorities....and they have not released any financial info on him or any info on his gambling losses. Now why is that? This is a glaring fact and a big clue as to what his possible motive may have been.
I am not saying that his gambling losses caused him to go suicidal/crazy I am simply saying as long as the authorities in Vegas refuse to release his financial and gambling info...that factor must be placed on the table of possible motives.
If he targeted the Casino itself, I could more see that this might have been related to his gaming losses. My gut tells me that it is more than that.