Justice
Why Las Vegas Has Such Lax Gun Laws
In America, the city’s approach to gun violence is far more common than not.
On Monday, Americans woke up to the worst mass shooting in modern history.
The night before, a white man—whom police have since identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock—opened gunfire from his room high up in the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas onto a crowd of concert-goers below. He killed 58 people, and injured hundreds of others. “It was an act of pure evil,” said President Donald Trump in a brief statement Monday.