Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com)

Readers share a report: At least 50 people are dead and more than 200 wounded after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source). Police said they were first alerted to reports of an incident at 10:08 p.m. and then determined there was a shooter on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino who was targeting the nearby Route 91 Harvest Festival. Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a briefing that officers responded and shot dead the suspect. He said the suspect was a local resident but declined to identify him, citing the ongoing investigation. Police are also trying to locate a female companion, who they named as Marilou Danley, who was traveling with the suspect.

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Re: We need more guns

[AmiMoJo]

The difference is that computers are designed for innocent use, and often have features to prevent misuse. Guns are designed to kill things, and that's pretty much their only use.

We regulate things based on risk. Cars are medium risk, they can injure or kill but that's not their primary purpose and they have extensive features to make them safer. Even so, you need a licence and some mandatory training/testing to drive one. Interestingly the US has a very low bar for driving, in comparison to other developed nations.

What seems to have screwed this generally pretty successful system up is the US constitutional right to bare arms. Unfortunately it doesn't specify what kind of arms, but it does seem to recognize the need for some control and training with the "as part of a well organized militia" bit. Emphasis on "well organized", which I'm sure someone will interpret as "keeps at least 10,000 rounds neatly stacked in their basement".