Maybe some of that is true, but I'm not convinced Paddock was a "diversion." A little-known but major aspect of all of this is that Paddock's father was a psychopathic criminal, on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for a while. That tells me that Paddock could well have just been crazy. Maybe he had some undercover connections as well with arms dealing and so on, but maybe he just decided to commit a massacre.
Maybe some of that is true, but I'm not convinced Paddock was a "diversion." A little-known but major aspect of all of this is that Paddock's father was a psychopathic criminal, on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for a while. That tells me that Paddock could well have just been crazy. Maybe he had some undercover connections as well with arms dealing and so on, but maybe he just decided to commit a massacre.
I seem to remember that Paddock was identified as the arms supplier. If he was trapped maybe he figured he'd go out in a blaze of whatever.