I thought this photo was interesting:
Based on this photo, I would believe he could be a lone shooter.
The younger brother is tensed and exhibiting sustained fear, almost to the point of startle, which in affect psychology is a fear so intense it locks up, overloads, and then resets the brain in a neutral emotional state. He can barely make a smile. The fact he is exhibiting it in the context of a posed picture means it was a conditioned state he entered around his brother. That would take a lot of emotional eruptions to condition into his brain.
That should give you an idea of the nature of their relationship. As the younger brother conceded in his second impromptu interview, when Steve wanted a sandwich, you got him a sandwich. That moment is a snapshot of their emotional states when interacting. The younger brother was in fear, and the older brother was relaxed and at ease because he was in control of his fearful subordinate.
I am beginning to think the deception the younger brother was exhibiting was that he was trying to hide his immense relief and happiness at never having to see his brother again. He felt he needed to hide that, for fear of seeming bad himself. All the exaggerated arm movements and facial expressions were just complete utter relief, which he felt guilty about and wanted to hide, but couldn’t.
Given the shooter had complained about the country music being played by the room below him the night before, and had it quieted down, he may have felt out of control when the country music festival began the next night, and that gave him the additional impetus to execute his plan.
It is possible the entire scenario happened previously when he did not have a room full of guns, and that was the genesis of his entire mass-shooting fantasy. It would be interesting to know if the security guard who was shot, was reporting to his room due to a noise complaint he made, and it was all part of a plan he had rehearsed in his mind, based on a previous event.
Previously he called, complained about the noise, was told nothing could be done. He then fumed, and imagined how much of a release it would be to pull a gun, shoot the guard who disregarded his complaint, and then vent his rage at the crowd with automatic weapons. For grievance-accumulating narcissists, the venting can be so cathartic they will generate grievances, or seek out opportunities to create them, just to be able to vent in response to them. That whole shooting, from complaint to the guard, to shooting the guard, to breaking the window and shooting all the concert-goers, could have begun in his mind as a fantasy, as he lay in bed one night, helplessly kept awake by a previous concert and all the people enjoying it.
Another interesting note. Notice the puffiness/inflammation over the shooter’s nasolabial lines, under each eye. Years back I meant to do a blog post on two violent sadistic psychopaths who had that same puffiness, but it was overtaken by events. It was so long ago, I have forgotten who they were. One was a sexual sadist from the pacific northwest who I believe had raped a twelve year old step-daughter repeatedly before moving on to more horrifying crimes. His face was the most extreme version I have seen, with two large red bags bulging out over his nasolabial lines. He looked like a big chipmunk.
Josef Fritzl had it a little in this picture even though he is older and relatively emaciated:
Henry Lee Lucas had it a little in his mugshot:
It could be that like the red eyes, it is a byproduct of alcoholism, and these addled amygdalae are self-medicating with alcohol, so it aligns along those lines. I do notice that in later images of them after incarceration, it seems to have diminished. Still, although rare, if it is something that appears in sadists in their wild state, even if produced by alcoholism, it could be a useful tidbit to file away.
Interestingly in Chinese medicine, I believe that redness in that specific area indicates an impairment in sadness/lung function. In Chinese Medicine, the brain runs the body’s physiological processes, in addition to doing cognitive work, and as a result the emotional modes people’s brains become stuck in affect how various parts of the body’s physiology are run.
Somehow the “lung’s” operational programming in the brain is interwoven with the sadness mode, which in their theory partly accounts for the heaving, choppy, exhaling breath when people cry, and the running nose with mucus in the airway. No telling why it would evolve that way biologically, but presumably it would be something like there was some need to upregulate nasal mucus and air expelling when immunity was depressed due to sadness, or something in that vein. Although lacking in mechanism explanation, Chinese Medicine is quite astute in identifying correlations.
Anyway, I do not often see such an inflammatory state in that specific area, but if I ever do, I now assume sadist until proven otherwise.
You really got to look at this. This guy has used the time delays in between the bullet hitting the ground and the report to show that there’s two shooters. One at about 450 yards and one at about 250 yards. He also shows the areas in a circle where the 250 yard shooter could be. This is not a hyped click bait. It’s some science guy why ran the distances and times in spreadsheets even accounting for the velocity drop of a .223 round. This is a great video. To me this is the exact same as building 7 is to 9-11. Data that can’t be refuted no matter how much smoke a dust they throw up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxmEFeKy8aI
The noise complaint was to test response time of the Casino to noise complaints on a floor near his. He may also have reasoned that making a noise complaint against his downstairs “neighbor” might have created a hesitancy on the part of the Casino to take a complaint against him as serious — tit-for-tat, rather than an actual situation. That might buy him a critical minute or two.
OJ Simpson and Kris Jenner have them too. Kris likely disguises her wrinkles with botox.
The reference to The Beast complaining about the music reminds me of the scene in Beowulf where Grendel goes absolutely apesh!t at the sounds of partying and revelry among the warriors.
True.
“Notice the puffiness/inflammation over the shooter’s nasolabial lines, under each eye. Years back I meant to do a blog post on two violent sadistic psychopaths who had that same puffiness, but it was overtaken by events.”
Do you mean something like this?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1203/mason_soros.php3
Son of a bitch. Nice call.
And he had no sadness about ripping off his fellow Jews for the Nazis.
The younger brother looks like he has Sanpaku.
According to Chinese medical face reading, when the white part of the eye, known as the sclera, is visible beneath the iris, it represents physical imbalance in the body and is claimed to be present in alcoholics, drug addicts and people who over-consume sugar or grain. Conversely, when the upper sclera is visible it is said to be an indication of mental imbalance in people such as psychotics, murderers, and anyone rageful. Stress and fatigue may also be a cause.[1] In either condition, it is believed that these people attract accidents and violence.
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“Although lacking in mechanism explanation, Chinese Medicine is quite astute in identifying correlations.”
AC I remember a few years ago on this blog, I believe it was in a review for the book “Becoming A Gung Ho Fighter”, you mentioned traditional Chinese Medicine and how it benefited you. I was impressed by what I read. I’d love to have a traditional Chinese doctor give me a physical exam, tell me everything that’s right and wrong with me. What’s the best way to make that affordable?
Ironically, TCM doctors in areas filled with Chinese immigrants tend to be vastly more affordable than anywhere else. An acupuncturist in Beverly Hills is probably a hippie new-age type who took courses at an American school under American teachers, who fills their office with pure oxygen so you feel better while you are there, but who isn’t a master at acupuncture because they only see five millionaires a day who are already quite healthy – and who pay through the nose. They may be good, but they don’t have to be.
A TCM doctor in a Chinese immigrant community probably studied in Beijing at a school where it is mastered, they charge reasonably because they have to (nobody is as studious about protecting their wealth for their children as the Chinese they serve), and because of that, they need to see forty to fifty patients a day to be profitable, which is how you produce mastery in that art. Plus there may be five or six who are really good in the area, and the community talks, so there is competition to be good. In Beverly Hills, there probably isn’t that huge a market, so there may be only one person.
That said, I believe even the best have things they have mastered, and things they haven’t. Some may have a gift at fixing Bell’s Palsy, some may understand cardiovascular disease better than any western doctor, and others may have mastered skin complaints. Their expertise is usually just a matter of what they have seen a lot of.
I’d find a Chinese immigrant community, and ask at any cultural centers they have. Once you find one, talk to the patients in the office, because I have heard them doing that, and some may say, “Oh, if you have back pain, Dr Wong on West Langer avenue is the best at fixing that, you should see him.” The patients who visit them often will have some who know all of the doctors because they have traveled around to them each time something has gone wrong, and they know who is good at what.
These days, they all get state certifications, just make sure they do the entirety of Chinese medicine, including acupuncture and herbs. The knowledge of each is complementary, so when they learn acupuncture, it teaches them about the theory which governs herbs, and when they learn about herbs, it teaches them further about the theory which governs acupuncture. One who only does one or the other is missing some opportunity to master their art.
Does this count as the puffiness?
There is a patch of beard that juts out and covers over half the area I look at, but now that you mention it for such a young age it does look like it is there a little in what I can see. I’d like to have seen him shaved clean there, and a little older, but that won’t happen now.