What a mess.
As long as the investigation appears to be a mess, and the motives of the shooter are unclear, the left can blame the device used, instead of the ideology of the shooter, incompetence on the part of any security staff or other folks, or any group which may have influenced an allegedly wealthy man to become a mass murderer (presuming he acted alone and perpetrated the crime).
There may be many layers to this that end up reading like a spy novel, but if that was disclosed in any credible way, the whole idea of banning some
thing else would go out the window, because people would no longer attribute the crime to an inert device, but the demented workings on one or more humans, and possibly some cultural belief or other factor.
It serves the Left to keep the confusion going, and the more muddle seems to be there, the more they can convey the idea that law enforcement isn't enough, they have to ban
something.
As in Sandy Hook, when the emotional response calmed somewhat and the shooting became the product of a demented kid, the wind went out of the sails of the anti-RKBA folks, and they don't want to wait until the facts are known to push emotionally based legislation out of fear that when people find out this hoopla is over a piece of plastic that can't fire a bullet, the whole movement will lose momentum and stall.
I might add, I'm damned disappointed in the NRA over their response in this, too.
If we go there, if we decide the crime is somehow the device's fault and ban the device, what device will be next? What happened to punishing criminals, not things?--and especially not the law abiding gun owner?
"Guns don't kill people, people do. " was once a slogan, and if the NRA is willing to trade off any part of a firearm over this, they lose my support (Golden Eagle Member since the SATF ended, and was a charter member of that).
As for MGM and the hotel/staff, they are in CYA mode, and keeping things muddled may mean paying a lot fewer lawyers a lot less in the long run. Even a successful defense costs money.
