Sunday/ massacre in Las Vegas

From the New York Times, compiled by Quoctrung Bui and Margot Sanger-Katz. Assault weapons should be banned, as should high-capacity magazines.

A gunman sprayed 22,000 country music concert goers with bullets from machine gun fire from his Las Vegas hotel room on Sunday night at 10.08 pm, for almost  10 minutes.

The sheriff from Clark County in Las Vegas just had a news conference (Monday morning), said the ‘body count’ was up to 58, maybe 59, then corrected himself and said ‘number of deceased’.  Well, it’s a massacre, and the body count as of now is 58, with 515 wounded.   The gunman  was a 64 yr old white male, US citizen – they usually are white males & US citizens, the gunmen in these frequent events in the United States. He used bullets designed to do maximum damage. He then committed suicide.  The President called it an ‘act of pure evil’ and offered his condolences.  The gunman’s brother could not point to anything that triggered him. Congress is not expected to anything, at all.

Graphic from the New York Times. The shooter was on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.

 

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