Las Vegas terror,

Las Vegas, what happens in Vegas will be heard everywhere

Las Vegas is famous for its bright hypnotizing neon lights. The crazy night time adventures by drunk party goers and excited tourists. It's a city that is forever nocturnal much like New York's famed night life. Unlike NYC, Las Vegas is a resort town for both the young and old that relies on the casino and entertainment business for its tourism revenue. It is also a desert city home to two million people who live outside the Vegas Strip. For them, Las Vegas is more than just slot machines, acrobatic stage performances and glassy hotels. It is like every other city where people go to work, school and carry on with everyday life. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of shock and grief for the 59 people murdered and 527 injured on Sunday October 1st in one of the largest terror attack (yes the Vegas massacre is a terrorist attack and fits the definition of it) or as the media calls it massacre in Las Vegas' local history. The shooting was carried out by 64 years old Stephan Paddock who fired onto the crowd from Mandalay Bay Hotel's 32nd floor room at the Route 91 Harvest Festival's closing night. There were hundreds of ordinary people who saved many lives and drove injured concert attendees to the hospital. They are heroes and risked their lives to save both friends and complete strangers. ISIS tried to claim responsibility but it's claim is false. America's always had its own local terrorists that have nothing to do with religion which is irrelevant in any massacre. Paddock had no connection to any terror groups either in the country or abroad. His brother Eric Paddock was just as shock to hear and tongue tied to what his brother had done. Their father Benjamin Hoskins Paddock was once on the FBI most wanted list from 1969-1977 as a notorious bank robber and con man in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. Both brothers had been distant from their notorious father who died in 1998. Their mother is still alive and has been speechless.

Eric Paddock reaction and response to brother's crimes

The suspect doesn't fit the stereotype of a crazed gunman

The police and larger society is still shocked by the terrorist actions. Paddock was a well off retired accountant who spent most times gambling and travelling. He lived Mesquite, Nevada a retirement town, some 80 miles North of Las Vegas. He didn't appear to be in any debt. Nor was he a religious or political extremist. He wasn't psychopath or had any mental problems, nor was he a military man. He wasn't a gun lover though he amassed several guns, had explosives in his home. Many are asking how in the world Paddock managed to sneak 50+ pistols, a couple of modified rifles using bump stocks to turn the rifles into semi automatics pass hotel check in desk and hotel staff. The weapons were said to be carried in 10 suitcases. Even so, woman often lightly joke that most men only travel with a few bags even for long trips. Yet one guest coming in with 10 suitcases still didn't raise eyebrows. Also how did he seal his hotel door shut and bust out two windows at good distance while simultaneously firing the two modified rifles for 9-11 minutes? Perhaps he snapped. RT News was able to track down the Dominos pizza delivery guy who was the last to see Paddock right before the shooting.



The Vegas shooting is not the only deadliest mass shooting in US history. It is a shame that the United States' holds the world record for the deadliest shootings each year. No other Western or wealthy country has as much gun deaths. Even in post war countries that are stabilizing it is not common to hear of mass shootings that leave 20+ people dead in less than a day. Countries such as Australia, UK, Japan and Canada have gone to great lengths to prevent any future mass shootings by passing gun laws that value life over the screaming gun advocates. It still shocks the world that the American gun rights advocates, gun owners and NRA or bust supporters take the 2nd Amendment so literally. When the 2nd Amendment was originally written in 1791 and hasn't been changed or altered since, there were no police departments, sheriffs or SWAT teams.  There were no high powered rifles or pistols. The writers of the 2nd Amendment would be mortified to witness the types of weapons that are on the streets of the U.S. The right wing writers and newscasters and moderate pundits insists that gun control laws is one step away from taking away guns away from every American. That every gun owner should fight tooth and nail to keep their guns. The near paranoid support for my gun, my rights attitudes encourages pro gun lobby, defence businesses, organizations like the NRA to keep the congressmen and women from addressing the topic,  annual mass shootings that are preventable, ongoing deaths, insane amounts of guns across the country and downplaying that access to high powered rifles and modifying weapons (despite being illegal) even with responsible gun owners continue to lead to terror attack aka mass shooting. It's already been said how American culture and society nurtures and normalizes guns as part of life no matter what. Until 1980s, mass shootings used to be condemned even by the NRA and Congress passed the assault weapons ban in 1986 and Brady Bill being the most well known of the anti-gun laws. Over the last 30 years, Congress being caught in the NRA's web has grown indifferent to the ongoing gun violence despite the majority of Americans calling for anti-gun legislation and even getting rid of the 2nd Amendment and replacing it with a more civilized amendment.