Just watched all four episodes of a documentary on BBC called 11 Minutes. It’s about the largest mass shooting that has ever happened in America, in Las Vegas in 2017. Not for the faint hearted I must point out but, like a lot of documentaries it draws you in. What I don’t understand is that I don’t remember it happening, and neither does my partner. And yet we’d stayed in that area a few years prior to that, so I would have thought that we would have discussed it at the time. The killer took many guns and rifles into a hotel overlooking a country and western concert and, in 11 minutes had killed 58 people and injured ( badly injured, that is) over 800 more before shooting himself. I do remember discussions about the fact that guns could be converted into automatic weapons with a device that was then ( I assume) banned. What I also don’t understand is that most of the people interviewed that had either been injured or had lost loved ones seemed to think it was a social problem and, although they campaigned to ban the sale of the converter, still thought that guns were necessary to protect people and that this sort of thing would still happen but, if the weapons weren’t automatic, not as many people would be killed. The whole thing is totally beyond my comprehension. What did stand out were the interviews with first responders who ran towards the danger to save people, and that some of them, instead of feeling proud that they’d saved lives, still berated themselves for the lives they didn’t save. I know I would never be that brave. I wonder if the whole thing was rather swept under the carpet at the time?
Lebanon to be heavily bombed (title edited by MNHQ at request of OP)
Changes in taxation that Andy Burnham seems to be interested in
