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

    From Disenfranchise San Francisco@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 08:42:29 2019
    XPost: vegas.general, talk.politics.guns, sac.politics
    XPost: alt.business.hospitality

    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?

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  • From God's Sock Puppet@21:1/5 to Disenfranchise San Francisco on Fri Oct 4 13:33:46 2019
    XPost: vegas.general, talk.politics.guns, sac.politics
    XPost: alt.business.hospitality

    On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 08:42:29 +0200 (CEST), in talk.politics.guns
    Disenfranchise San Francisco <indict.nambla.nancy@cbs.com> wrote:

    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.

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