Lots of questions in the wake of Strip shooting
Re: “‘It was a horror show’: Mass shooting leaves at least 58 dead, 515 wounded on Las Vegas Strip,” Monday Review-Journal:
On the day after this unspeakable tragedy, it is as if we have endured a war here in Las Vegas. We should be asking how this could happen.
In a civilized society, citizens don’t need to have highly mechanized and automatic rapid-fire weapons of mass destruction. This has nothing to do with the constitutional right to defend one’s self from real and imagined enemies, but instead everything to do with enabling a psychopath to commit mass murder on a scale never before seen in this country.
That this monster who perpetrated this crime brought more than 16 weapons into a major hotel unnoticed must be addressed. That hotels wouldn’t have sensors on their windows to immediately detect if the windows have been damaged or breached must be addressed (particularly in large and high-rise hotels). How Stephen Paddock was allowed to own so many weapons in the first place must also be addressed.
The families and friends of the hundreds of innocent victims deserve answers to these questions so that, in the very least, this will never happen again. I pray for the victims’ families and I pray for my beloved Las Vegas.
