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The 2nd Amendment has become a shield behind which murderers hide!

william smith
5 min readJul 15, 2021

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This is a picture of young people running for their lives across the street from the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada on the evening of October 1, 2017.

They were being shot at by Stephen Craig Paddock, who opened fire on them while hundreds attending an outdoor music festival. Paddock killed 59 people, injured another 538, and then turned the gun on himself. His body was found on the 32nd floor of the resort with an arsenal of weapons. Reportedly he used a bump fire or “trigger activator” device to convert his semi-automatic weapons to full automatic action, simulating machine gun fire.

Incidents like the murders in Las Vegas have become so numerous in the United States there’s now a medical diagnosis called “Mass Shooting Derangement (MSD) syndrome”. It’s described in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” ( DSM ) of the American Psychiatric Association as a severe “Antisocial Personality Disorder” ( APD ). Rather than overtly displaying some of the characteristics of APD MSD afflicted individuals are able to hide these traits until they finally explode like Paddock did on October 1, 2017. What we’ll never know is, ‘would Paddock’s mental explosion have caused the deaths it did if he did not have the access to the firearms he did?’ In all likelihood the answer to that…

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william smith
william smith

Written by william smith

Husband for 49 years. Dad forever! Very lucky man.

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