Could this nightmare massacre by this strange RICH man Stephen Paddock possibly be free of ruling class intrigue ? Why the obsession with gun rights ? The ruling class and the nervous middle class fear THE REVOLUTIONARY MOB - and fear for their " way of life ". The police state and the military might prove inefficient in protecting their private estates.
Not a few ruling class individuals have a pathological hatred for ANY crowds , so alienated are they from the common people. Naturally they fawn on the murderous police.
Not a few upper class individuals are addicted to gambling . In " Flowers of Evil " the French poet Baudelaire views gamblers as having " pitiless eyes " and " basic insensitivity toward others ". Paddock was a sick - drunken ? - gambler .
What better way to scare THE PEOPLE from assembling to protest war and economic misery ?
There is a famous short story about a Russian aristocrat so bored with hunting that he started to hunt human beings ( " The Most Dangerous Game " by Richard Connell ).
" Flowers of Evil " also makes this point about boredom : " You provide a person with unlimited funds and in just a matter of time that person discovers some creatively exquisite forms of decadence "
" Flowers of Evil " - on gambling
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