I heard someone compare this event to 9/11, and I don't think it is a fair comparison at all. For this mass killing, you have the largest mass casualty event I can remember. For medical personnel arriving on scene, it would have been pure chaos with that many injured and dead. It must have been the terribly difficult to triage the dead, dying and injured.
Then, I'm positive that local hospitals were overwhelmed with friends of the injured transporting injured people directly to emergency rooms at hospitals that they knew their locations of. Hospitals would have had to call out staff from home, many deploying immediately when they heard the news if they were still awake.
The police moved to eliminate the shooter, who took care of that himself. The Clark County Coroner was certainly overwhelmed and likely reached out to others for mutual aid, and in these types of events to funeral homes for help.
Then you have the friends and families of people who were not there, but knew their children, friends or neighbors were there and now are anxious and perhaps grieving for their loved ones.
There are way too many events like this happening in today's society. Why don't we see more of these types of events in other parts of the world? Answer that question for me. Why here? What is enabling otherwise sane people to create mass mayhem at the end of their lives?
It was a long night for everyone involved, and there will be many long days ahead for the survivors of this event. For the physically injured and the mentally injured, these hours will stay with them forever.
