2017 Las Vegas shooting
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On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floo
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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign adorned with flowers on October 9, 2017, a week after the shooting
President Trump and First Lady Melania visiting a hospitalized victim
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Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm related violence. Definitions vary, with no single, broadly accepted definition. One definition is an act of public firearm violence—
2017 Las Vegas shooting
…later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The motive for the shooting is officially undetermined. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting in American history. It focused attention on firearms laws in the U.S., particularly with regard to bump stocks, which Paddock used to fire shots in…
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