Last Monday America suffered the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. A gunman rained down thousands of bullets from high above into the crowd of about 22,000 country music concert attendants from his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Authorities said he fired hundreds of rounds per minute for 10 minutes from his hotel window, killing 59 victims and injuring 527 people.
Many friends have reached out to me wanting to find out the entanglement of guns in the American culture. Many people abroad particularly in Africa, where owning a gun is far more complicated than buying a house, find it difficult to comprehend that someone could possess such a stockpile of weapons unnoticed and be able to carry out such a horrible massacre. Here is what we know so far. Let me get a glass of water before continuing with this part of the story.
The shooter’s name is Stephen C Paddock, a 64-year-old white man, who has now already been declared a lone wolf and of course, not a terrorist. He is a wealthy property owner and regular in Las Vegas casinos who made a living through gambling and speculation. He apparently killed himself after police officers closed in on him in his room.
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