Okay, not to nitpick, but almost all of this information came out after you posted originally, making it hard to claim that these are the reasons you believe it to be organized conspiracy (I use conspiracy loosely, the deep state was mostly a joke on my part, I should stop doing that). They are however valid points, thank you for the links. Moving on: In regards to the first link: this isn't really in debate, he'd set up at least two stops where he had further caches. It also is not relevant. We are not arguing whether this man planned on surviving, merely the source of his inspiritation. Plenty of disturbed mass murderers believe that they can survive/escape. Disillusionment and all that. Admittedly, why he chose to end his life (I assume that he killed himself shortly after the shooting ended) is a bit of a mystery. The time between last shot being fired and first officer on the scene is rather close though, making a second shooter a hard sell. My guess, and I am in agreement with the sheriff in this, would be it has something to do with the security guard he shot before police arrived, making him think he had miscalculated the time he had to escape. For the second link, this is a headline, nothing more, a better link would have been the actual conference, though it is somewhat long. Taking a single statement out of context is a mass disservice to anyone involved. skip to 21:00 for the secret life statement. The news will be milking this for all it's worth, for as long as possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=603C9zCbOu4 For the third, this is the same case as his supposed GF, they are simply looking for a woman he was seen with in the days leading up to the attack. This is Las Vegas we are talking about, it could be explained any number of ways, only one of which is particularly ominous. Again a person of interest does not mean a suspect. Fourth link, I understand why you included this, I just wish you had chosen something else, everything about this receipt is rather fishy, least of which is that the date is one day before Paddock checked into the hotel/airbnb. I highly doubt the police/fbi botched the date he checked in. There will always be sick people who seek to gain from tragedies in anyway they can. I could also be wrong about this, but there is absolutely no concrete evidence regarding the veracity of this receipt. Fifth link, this repeats the statement of secret life, and refers to how he may have had help. One statement, earlier into the conference that I can't quite remember where, is how he finds it hard to believe he was able to move the amount of hardware into his room by himself. Which, while I hate to call the sheriff stupid, is rather silly. He was there for days, it would be rather easy to get it all up there over time. Hell, he could have had hotel employees cart the weaponry upstairs for him, if he properly concealed it. "Amassing a large arsenal and ammunition for decades" This is blatant pandering and again misquoting the sheriff. 33:33 is the source of the 'accomplice' statement. Again the sheriff is taken out of context. They are investigating every possibility, as they should be. Speaking of his own opinion he does find it hard to fully accept the idea he acted fully alone, but he is very clear he is speaking of his own personal opinion, not that of either the police or the FBI directly involved in the case. It is a very interesting hypothesis to consider though. The sixth link is completely up in the air, we know it is not a suicide note, that is all. It could be a 'scorecard' it could be a total red herring. It could be anything. If the paper does contain sort of relevant information, they could be withholding it for many reasons. Least of which is it points to an additional suspect. At no point has anyone suggested he was living off of his gambling winnings, but once again, even his brother supports the fact that the shooter was wealthy, even saying that 100000$ was no big deal for him. What do you mean by his death photo? I am not highly familiar with bullet wounds to the skull, so I may be missing something. Finally, the search for an 'answer' is probably a futile search. It is impossible to get a fully satisfying answer with the lone gunman dead, as we will never be able to question him to truly uncover his motive. You continue to insinuate that there is more to this than meets the eye, without expanding upon what that even means. An important question to ask is why would a group carry out this attack? How would they benefit? What is their motive? Foreign terrorism can be crossed out, as there would be zero reason to cover up such an attack, and if there was any suspicion of foreign involvement, the US Government would be drowning us in it. Domestic terrorism can [i]likely[/i] be crossed off because of lack of evidence pointing to such, we can assume he would have left some sort of memento explaining his political motivations such as a video or perhaps a note (I discount the circled paper because if Mr Bilzerian can get a head-shot of a man who blew out his brains, I assume he can also obtain a photo of a sheet of paper) however if he was planning on continuing his murder spree, he may have intended to release these at a later time. We are then left to either a lone-madman, or some sort of conspiracy (The aforementioned deep-state) With a lone gun-man we have dozens of other similar cases (simply not of this scale, at least in the U.S) where almost all suffered from mental disturbances. Simply being capable, or having a high kill count does not discount mental illness. Breivik was clearly a madman, but he was also by all reports highly capable, more so than the LV shooter, he simply had less resources. Also, if this wasn't the work of a madman, you would expect an actual target (whether one or many) not what amounts to COD style spray-and-pray into a crowd. The Unabomber, despite being disturbed, was remarkably directed in his targets, even taking steps to minimize his bombs to reduce injuries to people other than his intended targets. The LV shooter on the other hand has not demonstrated a high level of capability or control, simply a large amount of money that allowed him to easily acquire whatever he may need. On the subject of conspiracy, it was a semi-valid claim during the Obama administration, since in almost all cases the president used these tragedies to push for stricter gun control. With Trump as president, and a majority republican senate this is almost ridiculous to contemplate, and by the time he is ousted this will largely have been pushed from the forefront of the public's mind. Any conspirator's would have to understand this, you would assume, and would simply bide their time for a more opportune moment, such as right before an upcoming election, where such a tragedy would likely galvanize centrist citizens to the left. Or shortly after an election where the democratic candidate has already won, removing public misgivings towards gun control. So while I understand where you are arguing from, none of it seems particularly credible to me, and with all due respect, simply a need to make sense out of a senseless situation.