{"id":5245,"date":"2025-12-11T05:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkvts.dev08.dekodes.no\/english\/academic-article\/the-las-vegas-shootingsunderscoring-key-features-of-the-firearm-epidemic\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:07:55","slug":"the-las-vegas-shootingsunderscoring-key-features-of-the-firearm-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"academic-article","link":"https:\/\/nkvts.dev08.dekodes.no\/english\/academic-article\/the-las-vegas-shootingsunderscoring-key-features-of-the-firearm-epidemic\/","content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><p><\/p><p><span class=\"drop-cap\">O<\/span>n the evening of October 1, 2017, at the close of the 3-day Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, a shooter, who had transported an arsenal of 23 firearms to his 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay hotel overlooking the venue, smashed out 2 windows and repeatedly raked the concertgoers below with indiscriminate bursts of semiautomatic weapons fire. The death toll from this rampage shooting climbed to 59 gunshot fatalities (58 gunshot victims and 1 shooter suicide), the highest single-shooter incident in US history and second only to the 2011 shooting massacre that resulted in 69 deaths in Ut&oslash;ya Island, Norway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2657418?utm_campaign=articlePDF&amp;utm_medium=articlePDFlink&amp;utm_source=articlePDF&amp;utm_content=jama.2017.16420\">Read the whole&nbsp;article.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"file":0,"project":[0]},"publication_tag":[],"topic_tax":[4],"class_list":["post-5245","academic-article","type-academic-article","status-publish","hentry","topic_tax-disasters-terror-and-stress-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkvts.dev08.dekodes.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic-article\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkvts.dev08.dekodes.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkvts.dev08.dekodes.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/academic-article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkvts.dev08.dekodes.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkvts.dev08.dekodes.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_tag?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"topic_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkvts.dev08.dekodes.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic_tax?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}