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Pedestrians gather at a memorial for the victims of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.

injured as they tried to flee from the carnage, including 422 who were hit with gunfire. By the time police could get to Paddock’s hotel room, he had committed suicide. The Las Vegas shooting is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the United States. Unfortunately, it is only one of many such shootings that have occurred in recent years. A year prior to the Las Vegas shooting, in June 2016, a former security guard named Omar Mateen murdered forty-nine people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. In November 2017, just a month after Paddock’s spree, a man named Devin Patrick Kelley killed 26 people at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. And during the first six months of 2018, there were over two dozen school shootings,

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Contemporary Issues: Gun Control