It's Been Two Years Since the Las Vegas Mass Shooting

[Disenfranchise San Francisco]

Two years have passed since the Las Vegas mass shooting and MGM
Resorts has for some reason agreed to give $800 million to the
victims.

Fox News:

Two years after a madman set up a sniper’s nest inside a Las
Vegas highrise hotel room, lawyers representing some of the
hundreds wounded and family members of the 58 killed announced
Thursday they’ve reached a deal with MGM Resorts that could pay
them up to $800 million — but while the money may be settled,
the motive for the massacre remains unknown.

The announcement comes as events this week marked the two-year
anniversary of the attack, in which gunman Stephen Paddock
opened fire on concertgoers outside the Mandalay Bay resort on
Oct. 1, 2017. Las Vegas law firm Eglet Adams says the amount of
the settlement depends on the number of plaintiffs who choose to
take part.

“While nothing will be able to bring back the lives lost or undo
the horrors so many suffered on that day, this settlement will
provide fair compensation for thousands of victims and their
families,” Robert Eglet, a lead Plaintiffs’ Counsel, said in a
statement. “MGM Resorts is a valued member of the Las Vegas
community and this settlement represents good corporate
citizenship on their part.

I honestly don’t understand how MGM is at fault because a mass
shooting took place from within one of their buildings. But it
is good to see that the victims will have some sort of
compensation for what happened to them.

The big problem with this whole situation is that there has
never been any real explanation of why this happened. The whole
thing was blamed on some guy named Stephen Paddock who had all
these weird associations that were never fully investigated.

The FBI just shrugged their shoulders and said they couldn’t
explain anything. There’s also questions about why MGM hasn’t
released their CCTV footage. Surely, that footage would help
answer a few questions I would think?

[God's Sock Puppet]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 08:42:29 +0200 (CEST), in talk.politics.guns

Post by Disenfranchise San Francisco
Two years have passed since the Las Vegas mass shooting and MGM
Resorts has for some reason agreed to give $800 million to the
victims.

Whatever, they're well insured. I assure you that "MGM Resorts" had
nothing to do with the settlement... their insurance carrier
negotiated the settlement. Then, the carrier promptly passed on the
loss to every other hotel's premia. Then, the hotels passed it on to
*you*.

Thus, *you* are underwriting Paddock's gun.

The lobby representing the manufacturers of Paddock's gun has managed
to have their clients exempted from any liability and we think this is
wrong. The way it is, the hotel pays and this increases everyone's
hotel costs. We believe that the cost of the liability should be
borne by the people who sold the gun and then passed on to the
buyers... maybe, maybe not; however, definitely *not* by the hotel and
by the people who use hotels.