Americans grappled Monday with the deadliest mass shooting in the nation’s history, once again searching for answers to a question that continues to be elusive: How did this happen? Again. As authorities searched for a motive for the senseless mass shootings in Las Vegas, the debate over gun control reemerged. As Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said, “This has been a hugely traumatic time for all of us.”
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An injured person is cared for at the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard after the mass shooting, the worst in U.S. history. The shooter was found dead in his hotel room after he killed dozens.
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Police officers advise people to take cover Sunday in the vicinity of the shootings near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. A gunman holed up with several rifles on the 32nd floor of the hotel fired on people attending a country...
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A woman in tears takes shelter inside the Sands airplane hangar after attendees of the Route 91 Harvest country music festival were gunned down.