Maybe. So an FBI profiler (I hope) believes the predisposing factor for Austin Sigg was fear of being sent to the treatment center after the attack on the jogger.
OK. Probably. But something made him attack the jogger, right? An adult woman who managed to escape and hence, he decided to switch over to kids.
So what was the precipitating factor for that, first, attack? Does anyone know?
I think that while there may be events in AS life, looking at them from our normal position, divorce, loss of job, stress - leads us nowhere.
I think it comes from years of imaginary world, that becomes sadistic (probably Internet “helps”). And then this sadistic world grows on the real one, till one day, there is no boundary anymore.
(My family is always surprised by Steve Paddock. He had everything, right? A rich guy, a nice GF, what went wrong? No precipitating events, unless he lost everything in a casino, but doubtful, he had tons of property and seemed to have the guts to win. Genes, right? Out of five kids of his father, one got the combination that made him a criminal).
here; I think, “the usual” type plus untreated bipolar, but pay attention to child abuse on his disk.
Las Vegas shooting: gunman was on losing streak and 'germophobic', police say | Las Vegas shooting | The Guardian
ETA: I read as many articles as i could about Paddock’s wins and losses, and seems he was in a regular statistical situation (won millions, but overall, ended with about 400K loss in 2015, for which he got compensations in the form of perks; it seems normal for a gambler, from what other gamblers told me; his property cost way more, though, so, not a poor man at all). My only explanation is, since he got most of his “highs’’ from the casino, a hypomanic episode created an urge for more “highs”, that he decided to get in the casino as well since it was his life. I think he probably did not get into child abuse because this where he somehow, morally, still drew the line; had he lived, that line would have eroded with time, too.