On the evening of October 1, 2017, a mass shooter, later identified as sixty-four-year-old Stephen Paddock of Nevada, opened fire on guests at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. Country music artist Jason Aldean, who was performing at the time multiple rounds of shots were fired from Paddock’s room on the thirty-second floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, described the scene as “beyond horrific.”
When all was said and done, the event was one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. Fifty-nine people were killed and another 546 were injured as a result of the multiple rounds of bullets fired and the resulting mass chaos. Among those who died were Paddock himself, who committed suicide in his hotel room while police were in pursuit.
This event was the most recent in a series of very public shootings across the United States, beginning with the 2011 assassination attempt of Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D–AZ). Since that time, shootings such as those at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, in 2015; the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016; and the Republican congressional baseball practice in the summer of 2017, have brought …show more content…
The group endorses the broadest possible interpretation of the Second Amendment, opposing any and all regulatory attempts to ban access to types of categories of firearms (for example, assault weapons); to put any restrictions on where these can be bought or sold (for example, at unregulated gun shows); and to limit where concealed weapons can be carried (for example, into all public areas). The group, however, opposes the use of guns by criminals and those with adjudicated mental illnesses, and provides information and other resources on best practices for firearm
When all was said and done, the event was one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. Fifty-nine people were killed and another 546 were injured as a result of the multiple rounds of bullets fired and the resulting mass chaos. Among those who died were Paddock himself, who committed suicide in his hotel room while police were in pursuit.
This event was the most recent in a series of very public shootings across the United States, beginning with the 2011 assassination attempt of Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D–AZ). Since that time, shootings such as those at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, in 2015; the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016; and the Republican congressional baseball practice in the summer of 2017, have brought …show more content…
The group endorses the broadest possible interpretation of the Second Amendment, opposing any and all regulatory attempts to ban access to types of categories of firearms (for example, assault weapons); to put any restrictions on where these can be bought or sold (for example, at unregulated gun shows); and to limit where concealed weapons can be carried (for example, into all public areas). The group, however, opposes the use of guns by criminals and those with adjudicated mental illnesses, and provides information and other resources on best practices for firearm