John Diederich, chief operating officer of Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, relates with Kiwanis Club of Aurora members Tuesday, at the Prisco Center, his experience at a 2017 concert in Las Vegas when a mass shooting occurred. The gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.
The gunman, Stephen Paddock, fired more than 1,100 rounds from the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killed 58 individuals and left 851 injured from gunfire and panic. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in the U. S.. It reignited the debate about gun laws with attention focused on bump fire stocks, which Paddock used to fire semi-automatic rifles at a rate similar to that of a fully automatic weapon. Diederich supports of the Second Amendment and common sense gun laws.
Jason Crane/The Voice