An all too familiar script

"What can we, the shocked public do? Like I said at the start - pray. If this man had ISIS connections, we till find out. If the rumors that he did ends up being fake news, we will also find that out. The last thing we should do is make a political football out of this tragic event."

As tragic as last night's shooting was, many of us know the script by now. We know what all sectors of the political spectrum are going to say about it. What or who caused it. And who should be punished for it. But before I get into that - a moment of reflection for the hundreds of victims of this senseless act of carnage. Our prayers are with you, with your families, and the magnificent healers who work in the Las Vegas hospitals. For those who did not survive this attack, may God have mercy on those souls and comfort the loved ones who are left behind. 

On the radio this morning, it was reported this is the worst mass shooting in American history. If you want to put it in perspective, if this had happened to our troops in Kabul, with almost 60 soldiers killed and over 500 wounded, this would have been considered to be a major defeat of US forces. But it did not happen that way. It was a bunch of folks who came to Vegas to attend a Country Western concert. That is it. No more, no less. They were simply slaughtered by a mad man.

Some are already calling for gun control. However, the smart people are asking the right questions first. Like, where did he buy (or obtain) automatic weapons? How did he get them up to the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Inn? Since he was checked in for a few days before the act, and hotel staff had been in and our of his room, how did he keep the long guns from being noticed? And of course, we can't ask the shooter, as he (like many others) decided to take the coward's way out. 

Let's suppose for a minute, that Las Vegas had the strictest gun control in the world. Zero guns would be tolerated. Even knives would be off limits, all the way down to a Swiss Army knife. Plus everyone who came to the concert would go through a pat down, walk through a metal detector, and have purses checked. The outcome of the concert? No change. The shooter would have still been up in the 32nd floor shooting people at will.

It is time like this we need to let the investigation play out. Let the professionals do their jobs, Information which is knowable, will be discovered. Information which is not knowable, will have died with the shooter. 

What can we, the shocked public do? Like I said at the start - pray. If this man had ISIS connections, we will find out. If the rumors that he did have a connection with a terrorist group ends up being fake news, we will also find that out. The last thing we should do is make a political football out of this tragic event.