Former College Professor Kills Three on Las Vegas Campus
The Facts
- Three people were killed and one was wounded Wednesday in a shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) campus.
- The gunman, identified as 67-year-old Anthony Polito, was killed in a shootout with law enforcement. According to reports, Polito, a career college professor, was recently denied a job at the university.
- Police received reports of shots fired on the campus around 11:45 a.m. (local time) before students and professors were instructed to barricade themselves inside. Two university detectives confronted the suspect, who was in the university's business building when he was killed in a shootout.
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The Spin
Republican narrative
Once again, strict gun laws didn't prevent a mass shooting in the US. The UNLV campus is a gun-free zone, which could have prevented a responsible citizen from intervening in this tragedy. This is why restricting the gun rights of law-abiding citizens is a misdirected policy that sometimes leads to tragic results.
Democratic narrative
Mass shootings in the US are becoming so common, it's not surprising when one person witnesses one or more in a week. Yet even on the day of the Vegas shooting, Republicans in Congress — who believe 2nd Amendment rights should prevail over public safety laws — yet again blocked an assault weapons ban that Democrats had put forward.
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