Authorities are having trouble with motive behind the Las Vegas shooter. None of the usual apply. Here’s a comfortable white guy, no criminal history or history of violence, relatively wealthy, stable, has a girlfriend. Not political or religious, not angry. So why did he do it? Maybe they’re looking too hard. Maybe the truth is more frightening yet. Instead of fringe, maybe he was mainstream. Maybe, like the masses, he was just bored.
Several years ago 3 teenage boys here in Houston murdered a female classmate and when asked why, the ringleader shrugged his shoulders and answered, “Morbid curiosity.” People of all ages are fascinated by the difference between a living person and a dead one. Some are willing to commit murder a way of probing the difference. I think boredom and curiosity are behind any number of homicides. “Now just what would happen if I committed THIS.crime.”