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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Pipe bombs would have killed thousands.

[GayAnalSex]

Yeah, this is obviously not news for nerds. Slashdot is a political propaganda machine. The string-pullers are easily concealed as the new owner is both private and an LLC.

This dude could have killed thousands if he had just thrown pipe bombs. Easier to carry, and an order of magnitude more damage. He was a radical leftist nutjob. You know, the type that CNN supports. I wonder whether the Slashdot editors will somehow tie this to conservatives and Russia and spam how guns should be banned for the next six months.

Re:Pipe bombs would have killed thousands.

[RAID Roach Killer]

Exactly.

And he was a radical leftist nutjob.

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Re: We need more guns

[spire3661]

Guns are not a silly hobby, they are an enshrined RIGHT. You are asking for something the government does not have the power to do. Learn and understand the constitution before you make such immature responses about it.

Re:Not an off the shelf weapon

[slashrio]

Governments do all kinds of crazy things.
He could as well have been put there by the FBI in a false flag attack as an attempt to get more stringent anti-gun laws passed.

Re:We need more guns

[ScentCone]

The US gun lobby doesn't even want to restrict sales to those who already have mental health issues.

That's just simply a lie. And you know it. So the question is, what do you hope to achieve by lying? Who are you thinking is going to be persuaded by you to do what, based on a trivially debunked bit of falsehood like that? Every industry association, trade group, owners' groups, sporting group ... ALL of them ... call loudly and routinely for the prevention of mentally unfit people obtaining firearms, and for the rigorous prosecution of anybody that participates in knowingly being part of providing a gun to someone like that. Which you know, but about which you're lying. So again - why lie? Who are you talking to that you think is so unable to do a little homework and recognize that you're lying?

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".