The toll from the mass shooting last night is currently 50+ dead, around 400 wounded.  Hospitals in Las Vegas are running out of blood.  The shooter, thankfully dead now, had at least 10 rifles with him. At least one was an automatic rifle using high capacity magazines.  The rounds were reported to be 7.62 X 39 mm, designed by the Soviets in WWII and commonly used in rifles like the AK-47 and variants.  Most rounds of this type have a muzzle velocity of around 2,400 feet per second, and it will do a lot of damage when it makes contact.  These rounds are designed for one purpose – killing people very effectively, and that’s what happened last night.

Little is known about the shooter so far except that he is from Mesquite Nevada.  That’s right, the same Mesquite Nevada as Cliven Bundy, the infamous head of the Bundy family and anti-government weirdos who threatened to kill federal agents and whose sons occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon early last year.  Coinkidink?  One can only hope.