Why did you do it Stephen Paddock?

It's all too late of course, but why did Stephen Paddock kill 59 people and wound 520? What can his motivation have possibly been? As no one seems at this stage to have any idea, perhaps his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, will be able to throw some light on the inner workings of Paddock's mind. Surely, if she had lived with him she would have had some indications of a dangerous individual, or at least someone with extreme views? Did she know about all his weapons, for example? And if she did, did she not mention it to anyone else, like Paddock's astonished I-know-nothing brother? It is possible, of course, for two people to live together and know very little about each other. It goes on everywhere. But if a man is planning to spend a certain day killing and wounding hundreds of his fellow citizens, you would have thought he would have given some hint of a troubled mind to his girlfriend. Somehow, I suspect she will tell the FBI she knows nothing and that, like Paddock's brother, she is astonished that the man she thought she knew was a mass murderer. None of which will help the poor FBI who are struggling to find any motivation for the worst shooting massacre in modern American history. The huge armoury of weapons and the small cameras purchased to keep watch in the corridor outside his hotel room in case the police turned up indicate long-term planning. Perhaps the most appalling statistic I heard was that it took Paddock just nine minutes to kill and wound all those people. That tells you everything about his choice of weapons and the unbelievable killing power of the automatic assault rifles which he had so easily purchased from a local gunshop. Terrifying!!