Unfortunately in a situation such as this the urge to find easy answers leads to mistaken conclusions, bad information and idiotic paranoid conspiracies theories. I deal in Security with this all the time. Of course, the incidents I deal with are of no comparison with this tragedy in scope but when dealing with human beings, like the k1ds at work say, it's complicated. I once had a woman tell me it must have been the maid that stole her Louis Vuitton purse valued by her at $3,500.00 with $3,000.00 cash, multiple credit cards, her cellphone, etc, etc.
She was renting three rooms near the emergency stairwell and she stated she had a party with multiple guests the prior day and night. So I provided her with the report paperwork and asked her to fill it out and describe the items. I also asked her if she had contacted her financial institution and if not to use the room phone and to use the printed information included in my paperwork . I excused myself out of the room and proceeded to the nearby emergency stairwell and looked in it. One floor down I found the purse which had been obviously rifled trough. I took it back up to the room and showed it to her and she claimed it. I asked her to look and see what was missing. The cash was gone along with her credit cards but the cellphone was there and luckily for her the IDs were still there also.
Was she grateful in any way ? Nope. She had been rude to me and had blamed the staff. Fact is, the maids don't work at the midnight hours. She had three rooms and admitted to a party with multiple " dear old friends " in attendance. She then got upset that perhaps a " friend " had stolen from her but then she stated it must have been Room Service which did it. But again the timeline was not right because Room Service had delivered the banquet before the party and she remembered she had the purse during the party inside her bedroom in the suite. Of course, I was not contradicting her obviously erroneous remarks since the guest " is always right ". I offered her the option to contact the Police and she said no even though anything above $650.00 is a Felony in the state of Nevada. She said no. She then stated she wanted the property to reimburse her for the loss of cash and so I gave her a Risk Management card and she can fight it out with our lawyers. After she called me useless, she demanded my manager so I called the shift supervisor who a few minutes later showed up and I left to start writing the report. My manager talked to her, was cussed out and he departed. Later on we both agreed she was an idiot cunt.
Hopefully you can ascertain how people are always blame shifting, coming up with bullshit in order to avoid the unpleasant truth. Cameras later on recorded a male exiting the suite, proceed to the stairwell with the bag and a few minutes later re-enter the suite without the bag. A " deaf friend " had stolen from her. How surprising ( sarcasm ). I'm sure Risk Management, in a polite way, told her to fuck off and die. So, with the shooter investigation on going, it will take a long time to get at most of the truth but there will be missing pieces to the puzzle. When I read so much of what is being put out, I can see some of it is the press getting ahead of themselves especially if you have an anti second amendment agenda. Remember on the second day after Katrina how there was cannibalism inside the Superdome ? Well, the press hated George Bush and so they reported stuff without verification or even common sense. It worked and Bush was wounded politically which was the admitted purpose of the calumny. The press hates guns and there has been erroneous information already propagated but this time it isn't working so well. There will be a need to have patience because this crime will take months, if not years to fully understand and haste can do damage to the innocent.