Steve Wynn is having a told-you-so moment in the aftermath of Stephen Paddock‘s shooting rampage. Guesting on Fox News Sunday, the Wynn Resorts CEO said, “The scenario that we’re aware of would have indicated that he didn’t let anyone in the 
room for two or three days. That would have triggered a whole bunch of alarms here, and we would have — on behalf of the guests, of course — investigated for safety.” Wynn personnel, he said, are empowered to inquire into rooms that have been on ‘do not disturb status’ for 12 hours or more. As for Paddock himself, he had “the most vanilla profile one could possibly imagine,” Wynn added.
Hindsight is 20/20 but Wynn claims to have had foresight of a terrorist attack two years ago and installed preventive measures such as metal detectors “at every employee entrance and at every place of human collection like the nightclubs.” He also said the staff is on its toes for untoward behavior, which must be awfully difficulty with a traffic flow of 
20,000 people a day. “The things we’re looking for, that represent potential threats, are much more obvious and allow us a great deal of freedom in allowing us to not interfere with the normal flow of people,” Wynn said. “We don’t allow guns in this building unless they’re being carried by our employees, and there’s a lot of them. But if anybody’s got a gun, and we find them continually, we eject them from the hotel.” (emphasis added) Of his prophylactic measures, Wynn said they’re not foolproof but they “change the odds.”
ISIS, meanwhile, has dubbed Paddock Abu Abdul Barr al-Amriki and continues to claim he was acting on its behalf (although Paddock was known to drink, an ISIS taboo). The real mission here, experts suggest, is to erode confidence in American intelligence services. It might also be to sow paranoia. If Joe Blow is working for ISIS, who do you trust? (Kinda shoots racial profiling in the ass, if you’ll pardon my choice of words.) In response, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said his forces “have no intelligence or evidence the suspect was linked to any terrorist groups or radical ideologies.” (American anti-Semites are already finding common cause with ISIS, blaming Jews for the attack.) As for unfounded speculation, Lombardo is having none of it.
Former Paddock employee Lisa Crawford, meanwhile said, “I can’t believe that the person that I knew would even consider hurting somebody. I want so bad to have answers for people … 
He actually cared about everybody. He tried to make people happy, he tried to make people care and I don’t know what happened to him.” Wynn added, “This is a man who behaved rationally, privately, a little introverted, liked to play video poker. But he was a rational man.” In contrast to Crawford’s words of compassion and Wynn’s steady observation, UFC President Dana White told Jason Aldean to “stay out of Vegas” for not performing the national anthem on Saturday Night Live. At least this assclown is no longer Frank Fertitta III‘s problem child.
As for Paddock, what can we say? Man is an abyss. The further we look, the more lost we become.
* Las Vegas could use some good news and it got from WalletHub, which ranked Sin City eighth-best foodie city, although some will be surprised it didn’t place higher. Blame it on usurious liquor prices: Vegas ranked 80th in average beer and wine price, and 32nd in craft breweries and wineries per capita. In terms of affordability and accessibility of highly rated restaurants, Vegas was #1 and it was fourth in restaurants per capita. It was also seventh in coffee and tea shops per capita. Congratulations appear to be in order.
I don’t think Wynn did anyone a favor for his comments.