Should I think myself better than those with less? Above them? Entitled to more than they are? Certainly not. Food, shelter, security, freedom, comfort - my entitlement would have me believe that I deserve more beyond these basic necessities that so many others do not have. I am not entitled to an easy life, nor to a world that is fair or that makes sense to me. The certainty I feel is an illusion.Īnd I am not entitled to all that I seek. There are inherent limitations to what I can know, and what limited information I do have is passed through the filters of my personal values and what I choose to pay attention to.
I am wrong quite often as all people are. I feel that I am deserving of a certain treatment, certain respect, a certain life that is not being given to me.īut I am not always right. My anger comes from a feeling of entitlement. I feel that I am assuredly right about something and others are clearly wrong.
My anger comes from a feeling of certainty. The 10-minute massacre unfolded on the final night of the three-day Route 91 Harvest music festival across the street from the Mandalay Bay resort.Īuthorities have said Paddock, 64, unleashed a barrage of bullets into the festival crowd from his corner suite on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay.To me, the opposite of anger - of my anger - is humility. Neither the FBI nor the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the lead investigating agency, presented an official motive for the shooting.īoth agencies have said Paddock acted alone. AP The 2017 massacre unfolded on the final night of the three-day Route 91 Harvest music festival across the street from the Mandalay Bay resort. 1, 2017, mass shooting that killed 60 people and injured hundreds more.Ī gambler whose name is redacted from the hundreds of pages of documents told the FBI that Paddock “was very upset at the way casinos were treating him and other high rollers.” Stephen Paddock (pictured right), the gunman who opened fire on concertgoers on the Las Vegas Strip, lost tens of thousands of dollars while gambling prior to the mass shooting. They paint a detailed account of gunman Stephen Paddock’s final days before the Oct. The documents reveal the strongest indication of a motive for the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The high-roller gambler who opened fire on concertgoers on the Las Vegas Strip had lost tens of thousands of dollars while gambling weeks before the mass shooting and was upset about how the casinos had treated him, according to FBI documents made public this week.
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