Route 91 Harvest Research Paper

October 1, 2017 friends, family and strangers gathered to take part in the Route 91 Harvest festival. The Route 91 Harvest festival is a open-aired venue that lasts up to three days and is spread out on a 15 acre concrete lot on the Las Vegas Strip. Big country influencers such as Jason Aldean, Jake Owen and Sam Hunt were up to perform that night. As headliner Jason Aldean came onto stage and started to perform a series of pops echoed through the night. Aldean didn’t hear then, festival goers looked up at the night sky to try and spot the shimmering lights of fireworks, but there was none. As the pops continued to ring out Aldean was ushered off stage and people began to realize that they were the sounds of gunfire. But no one knew where they were coming from. …show more content…
Paddock was staying at the Mandalay Bay hotel on the 32nd floor that whole week, smuggling in seventeen riffles and one modified machine gun. He modified a rifle with a bump stock that allows him to shoot rapid fire. All of his possessions legal. I believe that this is where the problem lyes. He bought seventeen guns and a bump stock without a second glance in the time span of two-years.
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