Las Vegas massacre that is considered the bloodiest one in the history of the United States of America follows, faithfully, the first of the American massacres, the one by Charles Joseph Whitman who, on 1st August 1966, killed 16 people by shooting with sniper rifles from the tower of Austin university.
The only one real difference between the two episodes is the floor, 28th in Whitman‘s case and 32nd in Paddock Stephen’s in Las Vegas.
There are 51 years between the two episodes, and yet the emotional reactions and the attempts to explain the “motivations” causing the insane act are identical. Practically all this is simply defined as insanity.
Withmann’s massacre, besides being the first to happen in America, is also the one containing the key elements for a scientific interpretation of these acts.
In his farewell letter Withman thinks back over his psychic disturbance and explains he had gone to a psychiatrist of the university mental health center to tell him how worried he was about his violent impulses. He hadn’t had any help from Dr Cochrum, a psychiatrist, because the doctor, according to Withmann’s opinion, would have refused to see him again.
Withmannn himself, before dying, had expressed the wish to have an autopsy. The autopsy showed, incredibly, a brain cancer at an advanced stage. We don’t know whether, as it may be very probable, also Stephen Paddock, the author of Las Vegas massacre, shall have an autopsy and what the results may be. But we know for sure that his father, Benjamin Hoskin Paddock, as a serial robber, had been one of the 10 most wanted men in America in the seventies.
Both massacres are almost identical for some details: a great deal of weapons, a meticulous trainig, a wish of causing as many victims as possible. Obviously the weapons used in Las Vegas were technologically more advanced and lethal than the ones of Austin massacre in 1966.
Meanwhile the continous recurring of these massacres, carried out by one or more fellows, apparently without any common trait, has characterized America.
Numerically there were 5 massacres during Regan’s presidency, 5 with Bill Clinton and as many with Bush; during Obama’s two mandates, the president who got the Nobel prize for peace, the massacres were 17. Obviously having lethal weapons at their disposal those who want to cause more victims as possible are advantaged, but all over the world massacres are carried out unceasingly also without the use of weapons.
Recently, actually, massacres carried out with trucks are very usual, but even a simple car may be enough. Without denying the importance of the high spreading of weapons in the United States, considering this factor as an eminent one is limiting because, at this point, it’s sufficient to replace weapons with explosives and the result doesn’t change just as it happened for the massacre of Boston marathon in 2013.
In order to explain the phenomenon of the American massacres, according to our thesis based on the mechanism at genetic feedback or negative retroaction, we could make use of Trump’s words. While commenting on Las Vegas massacre the present president of the United States declared:”it was an act of pure evil“.
If we interpret this “pure evil”as a genetic predisposition to extreme aggressiveness, American massacres may be explained according to the mechanism at genetic feedback or negative retroaction. Phenomenons of unexplained human aggressiveness may have the most different aspects all over the world, from the American massacres to the homicides for cannibalism in Russia up to the attempts caused by Isis.
The reality is that all massacres and serial homicides are determined by the mechanism at genetic feedback or negative retroaction the aim of which is the decrease of human population. The phenomenon assumes the most different aspects in conformity with the various cultures and historical situation of the country where it takes place.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
Ferdinando Gargiulo offers you a new perspective on why new viral epidemics, assaults, infanticides, suicide epidemics and even environmental catastrophes. Always engaged in his research decides to create a blog to offer his readers content of high value.