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Las Vegas shooting

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BlueBelle Mon 02-Oct-17 17:31:18

64 year old man done the shooting.... America and guns don’t get me going

Greyduster Mon 02-Oct-17 17:20:23

What was the phrase Charlton Heston used in a speech supporting the gun lobby? "From my cold, dead hands!" How many more cold dead hands do there have to be before America comes to its senses?

Imperfect27 Mon 02-Oct-17 16:06:08

There truly are no adequate words, though doubtless the media will try to find many. Just so much sadness for all those who are now experiencing the trauma of loss and injury.

The pity of it is that even something so very awful will not change the gun laws in America.

nanaK54 Mon 02-Oct-17 15:36:38

Just home from work and catching up with this - how dreadfulsad CNN reporting 50+ dead and 400+ injured......

Grandma70s Mon 02-Oct-17 15:07:27

More than four hundred injured, as well as fifty or so dead. Sounds as if he was a deranged individual rather than a member of some group.

The US gun laws are beyond belief, but it‘s part of the culture and I’d be surprised if much changes. It’s the 273rd mass shooting in the US this year, apparently. Obviously by far the worst.

Luckylegs9 Mon 02-Oct-17 13:45:07

What dreadful news. All those people dead and injured, not to say all those traumatised who were there. A bad day for Americia and the world.

TerriBull Mon 02-Oct-17 13:30:45

This is awful just read the scale of it, 50 dead and over a hundred injured so sorry for those poor people. France had another relatively smaller terrorist incident at the week-end two young girls knifed to death at Marseille train station by some maniac Alahua Akbarring yet again sad so many lives taken in a callous way for what confused

Luckygirl Mon 02-Oct-17 13:18:14

The gun lobby in the US always says that it is not guns that kill people - how can you argue with folk who are so deluded? There is no way DT is going to even think about challenging them.

Until the anti gun lobby gets its act together these things are going to happen. It will only be when supporting gun ownership loses votes that any progress will be made.

Mad.

MawBroon Mon 02-Oct-17 13:12:05

What a dreadful tragedy.
What on Earth possesses people to do this sort of thing?
Playing God?

Iam64 Mon 02-Oct-17 13:09:10

How can this be? A man using a machine gun has killed 50 people in Las Vegas.
The news is still emerging but I do hope we don't get the usual nonsense from the pro gun lobby, that if only everyone in the crowd had a machine gun, the shooter would have been killed earlier.