The question haunting Las Vegas: what was the gunman's.

This disparity gets to the heart of why the mass shooting was, for those who live in Las Vegas, at once heartbreaking and strange: A tragedy happens in your city, thousands of people are shot at like trapped animals, and yet most of them don’t live there and leave the following day. Everyone has dispersed, but a floating anguish remains.

The Las Vegas mass shooting is the deadliest in modern American history—but was it terrorism? It’s important to distinguish mass shootings and acts of terrorism, says Martha Crenshaw, an.

Video from body-worn cameras has just been released, showing the point of view of the first Las Vegas police officers to respond to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Warning.

A lone gunman unleashed a rapid-fire barrage of bullets from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel late Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 500 others attending a country music.

Traumas like the mass shooting in Las Vegas take us out of the apparent normalcy of our lives—shattering our assumptions about living in a safe world. Open mobile menu Psychology Today.

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Coping with the Psychological Trauma of a Mass Shooting How to cope psychologically when the world no longer feels safe. Posted Oct 02, 2017.

In a recent article for The Atlantic, writer James Fallows argues that no other society has allowed gun massacres to keep happening.For example, in the wake of a mass shooting in Australia in 1996.

T he mind boggles at the horror of Las Vegas, where Stephen Paddock perched himself in the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay and sprayed bullets into a crowd of outdoor concertgoers in the worst mass.

Campion et al. (2017) note that the fatal Las Vegas shooting was facilitated, in part, by a fully automatic gun, which enabled the shooter to kill hundreds of people so effectively and so fast. If semi-automatic rifles cannot be banned, at least they should be manufactured too rigid to convert into automatic weapons. Even then, the magazine.

The two worst mass shooting events - last October's Las Vegas shooting and the Pulse nightclub atrocity in Orlando - have occurred in the last two years. More than a person a day have been killed.

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