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A Jihad Watch Civilian poses the following reasonable thought process concerning the seemingly baffling nature of the Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock:

It's clear from multiple studies that people become less violent as they pass a certain age, and violent urges tend to either diminish or just are not acted out when people get into middle age and beyond. There are personality traits linked to criminal behaviour, this is established, and the force of these “negative” traits weaken with age. Most violent offenders are relatively young…and more are male. Testosterone is thought to be one component as well, and it decreases with age. I can cite multiple references to support these conclusions; they aren’t merely my conclusions, but the consensus.

Now, these are general truths, and apply to most people. I realize this might not apply to Stephen Paddock as a person. He might have some kind of dysfunction. He might have testosterone increasing with age due to glandular problems. Highly unlikely! But possible. That in itself would manifest in other aggressive behaviours though Any kind of chemical change, be it substance abuse or malfunction bodily systems, would manifest in signs and behaviours. No one noticed anything odd about him. Still. He might be a total outlier. I might be wrong.

However, just examining the facts we do know I have to observe that for a man in his sixties to do something on this scale, especially with no former indications, something is very, very odd. It just does not fit. Very strange indeed. It flies in the face of all predictable data.

I would say that something happened to change the course of his life. Something unforeseen, and fairly recent...

If the Counter-Jihad Mainstream (CJM) had better lines of communication amongst their Leadership (i.e., in this case, if Robert Spencer hadn't burned his bridges with Debbie Schlussel years ago), they could compare data and do their principal job in the CJM of informing the growing nucleus of people who are not being well informed by the mainstream on this most exigent issue.  In a recent posting, Schlussel reported the following:

Neighbors say Paddock and his girlfriend were “gone” for six months, last year. Where did they go? With whom did they meet? You can’t rule out that maybe they met with jihadists or learned about the precepts of Islam during that trip. I’ll bet you the FBI has no idea where Paddock and his consort were for those six months, just as they still don’t know where the San Bernardino terorists, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, were for 20 to 30 minutes between their terrorist attacks and their trip to the 72 virgins in December 2015.