There were early reports of them were at least 20 dead, but that number has gone up to more than 50 dead. Heres a look at the las vegas sun. Weather 50 dead and 200 injured in mass shooting on the strip. They write that a gunman on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino opened fire on a music 50tival below, killing people and wounding in excess of 200. Officers confronted and the bayect at me an mandalay according to clark county joseph lombardo. Lov the sheriff believes it was a lone wolf attack. We have since learned that, with that woman, may lead to emily marilou danley. Thats a quick writeup and we will get more the reporting out there for you if we hear anything new. Bacteria calls because we took back plus and that to your calls because we took about 30 plus in that our. Ken is up first in maryland. Caller good morning, paul. First, my condolences to the families of the injured and dead in the Las Vegas Shooting, but i have a different take on this. I think what the American People need to understand is that the only way you can eliminate or reduce gun violence is to be honest with yourselves eliminate guns from society. There are no psychological tests that you can take that can determine ones mental capacity either during the time they are purchasing guns, peoples mental capacity changes. After you purchase the gun, and someone loses or the mental capacity changes, what kind of test can a person take or society take it could prevent this . I think people are kidding themselves thinking that you can legislate or regulate this. You cant. Theres no way can be done. And all these pontificators who are saying that checking this persons background the way he was when he purchased the different be totally after he has purchased the guns. Im a gun owner. Im a responsible gun owner. I just think that people need to be realistic about where we are guns. Ety and with host thanks for calling. John is on the line from sierra vista, california. Caller good morning. All i want to say is that i think they need to have more security in this concert where theres a lot of people hanging around, you know . If they had more security, not too many people wouldve died. It doesntmatter what people sat guns, they will use vehicles, bombs, whatever. I believe people should own a gun. Host between from President Trump. My warmest condolences to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas Shooting. God bless you. Michael is calling from South Carolina. Good morning. Caller good morning, how are you . Host im doing fine. Caller thank you for adding my voice to the conversation. In america it does seem there is love, that is not too hard of a term for it. That is so problematic to me. We have had these conversations for so long. Rather than ramble, i do have a question that i would like for you to potentially throw out to secondks who are such amendment advocates. My question essentially is this, i understand to my knowledge that the 20 decision gave individual rights and determined a mans home is his castle, the definition of a militia. My question is, why does your Second Amendment right begin to expand to the base of a hobby . These people have taken this to to ahing that is akin 14yearold with their pokemon go. They consider it is their absolute right to carry any weapon into anywhere they want. In South Carolina we fight to keep them from taking weapons without any check, any references whatsoever. There has been legislation to have you allowed to purchase anything you want, take it into sports stadiums, bars, anywhere. That is the definition of crazy. There has to be better gun safety regulation. As to where people consider this Second Amendment to turn into a hobby . Host moving on to art in houston. Caller good morning. I would like to point out the ridiculous level of bias on this program. This business of having three rgrable. Mbers is e this is terrible news to hear about this. This, everyone starts screaming, gun control, gun control, gun control. The reality, the guns are not the problem. The guns have been around for decades and decades in massive numbers. These problems are the result of our society, in particular, our government and how they deal with people. Host what do you mean by that . Caller we have a throwaway society. We have people out here that need help. Our government steadfastly refuses to do anything for. We threw out all of our mentally ill, 25 years ago and that is when most of this really ramped up. When we started seeing this stuff. The government has said, they are not going to do anything for the mentally ill unless they are already proven to be exceptionally dangerous people. That is where the biggest part of the problem comes from. The second part comes from, like the other guy said, we are raising a generation of people who believe they are owed everything. When you do that, and it doesnt turn out to be true, they get depressed, when they get they get disturbed mentally and they do stuff like what happened out here in vegas. The whole issue is, if there had been an opening there, if there had been systems there with ,eapons to defend themselves this would not have gotten that bad. It would have been over almost before it started. What really amazes me is the number of people calling in for advocating for laws that are already on the book. About,s the whole issue what happens. I have news, whether you know it or not, i guarantee you every day of every week that you live in this country you are standing next to someone with a gun in their pocket, legally or illegally. You dont see any of this b ull happening in reality. A hundred to one on the opposite side of this issue where nothing is going on. Host art, thanks for calling. Joe, on twitter, writes that , thatty for all of events wont guarantee stopping the killers. Writes, 10 years ago, the deadliest Mass Shootings had killed 16, 21 people. Plus. Is 32, 49, and 50 Las Vegas Shooting, the deadliest in modern history. Many have that headlines. Video in put out early the middle of the night of the shooting. Jasonas at a concert by aldean, there were tens of thousands of people there. Here is a little bit of video as the concert abruptly ended when all of this happened. [video clip] [sound of machine gun] [inaudible] go to john, upper marlboro, maryland not far from d. C. Caller listening to that recording it was a full auto. It was not semiauto. Tv, there is so much killing on television, they make it look normal. Even the cop shows where they try to show catching the people, it is all still killing. A lot of killing on tv. Mainly tv. Movies too. Not everyone goes to movies. I am a gun collector. Cars kill more people then guns do. I ride a motorcycle often. Bike, you seea how people drive. There is a lot of people out there who should not be driving. They are extremely reckless. Extremely. Way, iwho drive that keep a gun by my bed every night. Before,een jumped robbed before. To stop the crime, we wont stop it but you have to make the penalties so horrible that no one would want to do Something Like this. If you want to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, i know it is horrible but you have to make the penalty harsh. Very harsh. Host tonya is in west virginia, good morning. Caller good morning. I think this country should go to the draft. Everyone wants to be patriotic. There is a reason we dont have a draft. The white people dont want their sons and daughters killed unnecessarily. For all the people, i cannot keep up. In august we were fighting over the use of the confederate flag. Now it is about the american flag. Everyone wants to protect a Second Amendment, telling black people, go sit down and die quietly because we will not let you have your constitutional rights. The freedom of speech. I think this country has a lot of problems with the truth. It is time for it to stop. All these people that want to wave around this flag, national anthem, my loyalties is to god. My husband who died two years ago. I am an american citizen. No one asked me to take a loyalty test. This country needs to go back to the draft. 21n maybe we wouldnt have and 22 veterans committing suicide every day. Host that was tonya from west virginia. Steve writes at twitter, eight people were killed in plano, texas weeks ago. Did anyone notice . Senator rand paul writes on twitter this morning train for the victims and First Responders in las vegas. Shooting was a horrible and cowardly act. Isabella is calling from massachusetts. Go ahead. Caller i would like to agree with the previous caller who talked about the violence on television, which i would add includes the violence of the endless wars we have been waging. Obviously we need better gun control but also flipping the channels around this morning, everyone of them is totally consumed in this horrible incident. The tv stations need to exercise selfcontrol. It is an inducement to the next upckpot who wants to take all of the news time to do another atrocity. And aas a grandmother lawyer, and a former teacher as feel we have to work with our children. We have to educate them so much better about conflict, how to resolve them, how to deal with in justice and get results rather than cause more injustice and violence. Canpe that as a nation we start examining what is going on and obviously, what our current president is doing is just so incredibly disrespectful to the people he is supposed to be representing. It is dividing us terribly. I really feel he should be impeached. My friend and colleague, john, is introducing 48 november town meeting a motion to impeach mr. Trump. I hope other towns will follow westons example and those who represent us on capitol hill will wake up. It is unsustainable. Thank you so much for your program. Host thank you for your participation. Robert is calling from north las vegas, nevada. Robert, good morning to you. When did you hear about this . Caller i am right here in las vegas. Where i live. Host this happened at 10 00 at night, your time . Caller when it occurred, yes. Host were you still awake and watching breaking coverage . Caller oh yeah. I really appreciate hearing all the peoples comments, talking about the children. Vet. A korean ive been around a while. What i wanted to mention, i have never owned a gun, never needed it. To improve, want the lady is right, we have to take better care of the children. Where do you begin . There are so many things that go on, drugs, drinking. To Work Together more. Notice what happening back in the south, the storms, look at how the people put their lives on the line, helping each other. It is not like america has got a lot of bad people. I dont believe that. I have been all over the country and no one has ever discriminated against me. They have treated me like family. I appreciate everybody. Andpreciate your program whenever i can i help in any way possible. I thank you very much for your program. Is there a question you want to ask me . Host since you are local, thank you for your comments. For those who have not been there, to the Las Vegas Strip, describe the area where this like overnd what its there . Caller the sad thing about what happened this night, it was almost like a carnival. Everyone was having a good time. Of the police, i know so many in the Sheriffs Department and the Police Department. We are talking about really good people, putting their lives on the line. We lost one tonight. Think, las vegas, people come here to have a good time. There is always somebody like this fellow, what he did here tonight. Bringk this is going to folks together, even more so here, and find a new way where this wont happen again. The worst in our history. Too many people are suffering from it. Everybody in how the south and all the bad weather, look at all them putting their lives on the line, helping each other. It doesnt make any difference of their religion or the color of their skin. Especially in the strip, moving forward, lots of folks this morning talking about security. The number of injured people has risen above 400. Can the hospitals handle that many people at once . Caller we have several say . Tals, what can i i know many of the doctors and they put too many hours in but they are always there. The people working together here, look at all the Law Enforcement people. They were there within a few minutes. They go running right in, putting their lives right on the line. That, thee realize answer is not done. To take guns away from people, why . In gunsy say, it is that kill people, it is people. What do you do . Some of us remember prohibition. That didnt do any good. You have to start with the schools, the lady who called earlier, i agree with her 100 . We have over 13,000 people kids on the streets in las vegas. Host thank you for sharing that info with us. There is new info. The number of injured rising quite a bit. This is from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police department. They put out this release. An estimated 406 people transported to hospital. 50 are dead. The Las Vegas MetroPolice Department identified the lone suspect involved in the latenight mass shooting, as 64yearold Stephen Craig paddock, a white male from mesquite, nevada. A crowd ofire on 20,000 concertgoers from the Mandalay Bay Hotel at approximately 10 08 p. M. The victims were across the street attending a Harvest Festival concert when bullets rang out. The swat team responded to the and police reached the hotel room and found the suspect dead. The Clark County Fire Department estimated 406 people were transported to hospitals and 50 are dead following the shooting. Among the dead is a Police Officer who was off duty at the time. His name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Her also two onduty officers injured. One was upgraded from critical to stable. The other, a nonlifethreatening wound. This was a press release put out by the Las Vegas MetroPolice Department a short while ago. Lets hear from tom, in ohio. On the independent line. Hello, tom. Caller my comment is this. For those people that say guns dont kill, where they agree that Nuclear Bombs dont kill . If we find out, this guy that shot all the people, would they be in favor of banning that sector of people from the United States . Host that was tom. Lets go to i in Silver Spring ike in Silver Spring, maryland. Caller i agree with what tom just said. To say, i i called feel like people are rushing to politicize this issue. Im going online in getting this information, saying he was this and that. We dont know anything about the guy yet. I really feel like that is dangerous. It is bad. Especially where we are in society right now. I do agree, i am hearing Mental Health, Mental Health stuff today on television and on the radio. I dont think we would have heard that if this man had a muslim name. Anyone is able to take out people in mass casualties there is a Mental Health issue. Mental health, terrorism, it is irresponsible and clearly culturally biased. Int deborah is on the Line Highland mills, new york. Hello. Caller good morning. I was fortunate enough to grow up during a time when there was a federal agency on Public Health. That agency now does not have the budget. I was fortunate enough to learn that having guns in the home is a Public Health issue. I think this incident is bearing out the fact that there are individuals that are so afraid of this world that they carry guns with them. I live in a neighborhood just north of new york city that is deemed one of the safest neighborhoods in new york yet i have neighbors around me that have invited me down to the shooting range so that i can learn how to shoot a gun. I refused. I just will not buy into the culture of guns and safety. They do not go handinhand. Thank you very much. Host robert is in fort worth, texas. Caller good morning. This Las Vegas Shooting was absolutely horrible. Fun, you haveing this crazy maniac shooting down on people. The guy had a machine gun. Ar15,probably an modified. I have a question. Casinos, wheres is your security . You have a security detail. You could see someone carrying in that gun. A gun case is as big as a guitar case. Why was this person not stopped . It doesnt make sense. Detail, they see that, you cannot miss those things, they are huge. It was probably an ar15 assault rifle. Those are readily available and they can be modified very quickly. This is really a bad thing. Now people are going to be afraid to go to concerts. Things are spiraling downwards. This is terrible. That is pretty much what i have to say. , you guys have got to tighten up security. Host gabrielle giffords, the former congresswoman survived an assassination attempt herself while serving the eighth district in arizona several years back, she writes. Minutes, one of man killed at least 50 people. This is a grave tragedy for our nation. Barack obama the former president pleaded this morning. Michelle and i are praying for the victims in las vegas. Everyonehts are with after another senseless tragedy. Thank you for your calls from this mornings washington journal. A short time ago President Trump made remarks to the nation about the shooting in las vegas. [no audio] thank you. Americans, we are joined togr