USA: several people were injured after a shooting in Las Vegas, the suspect died

A gunman opened fire on the Las Vegas campus, wounding several people before being found dead, local police and the university, located a stone’s throw from the US city’s largest casinos, said.

“Suspect found and deceased,” Las Vegas police, who had previously asked to intervene for “preliminary information indicating the shooter was operating on campus,” wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “It appears multiple people were injured,” she wrote.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ public address system reported a shooting on campus and asked everyone to “evacuate the area,” located two kilometers from the famous “strip” of this sprawling American Western city known for its casinos.

Once police announced the end of the event, the university asked everyone to “enter the premises” so that police could “evacuate the buildings one by one.”

Six years ago, one of the worst massacres in the country took place in Las Vegas.

In 2017, the gaming capital of the world experienced one of the country’s worst massacres. A man opened fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel into the crowd below attending a country music concert, killing 58 and wounding hundreds before taking his own life.

The United States is paying a very high price for the proliferation of firearms on its soil and the ease with which Americans gain access to them. The country has more individual guns than people: one in three adults owns at least one gun, and nearly one in two adults lives in a home with a gun.

49,000 people died from gunshot wounds in 2021

The consequence of this proliferation is that the United States has a very high firearm death rate that is incomparable to that of other developed countries.

About 49,000 people died from gunshot wounds in 2021, up from 45,000 in 2020, which was already a record year. This amounts to more than 130 deaths per day, more than half of which are suicides.

But it is the high-casualty tragedies that most touch people’s minds, illustrating the ideological divide that divides conservatives and progressives over how to prevent such tragedies.

Recent American history has indeed been marked by murder, yet there is no place in everyday life that seems safe, from a business to a church, from a supermarket to a disco, from a public highway to public transport.