A deadly shooting at a casino in one of the US’ major tourist hotspot has claimed at least two lives and left several wounded.

Two people are dead and four are wounded after a gunman opened fire outside a US casino, according to reports.

Gunfire broke out at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, around 7:25 a.m on Monday (12.25am Tuesday, AEST). reports The New York Post.

Reno is a major tourist destination and is Nevada’s second latrhets casino city after Las Vegas,

The carnage focused around the casino’s valet parking area, according to local newspaper the Reno Gazette Journal.

The gunman was shot by police and detained, and is among the wounded – some of whom are reportedly in critical condition.......

More https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/new-york-city-midtown-manhattan-shooting-07-28-25

Four people, including a New York Police Department officer, were killed in today’s shooting in Midtown Manhattan, a law enforcement official told CNN.

The shooter, tentatively identified as a 27-year-old from Las Vegas, is also dead from what police believe is a self-inflicted injury.

It seems that the New York shooter got on the wrong lift and then went to the wrong office.

More details have emerged after a security guard who blamed the NFL for a brain condition killed four people in a Manhattan skyscraper.

.......However, on Tuesday, New York mayor Eric Adams said there was “reason to believe” Tamura likely intended to go to the offices of the National Football League which was also housed in the block.

“He appeared to have gone to the wrong floor,” Mr Adams told Fox 5’s Good Day New York.

“There are two different elevator banks.

“Some banks don’t go to every floor. He appeared to have gone to the wrong bank, and he ended up on the floor of Rudin Management.”......

US Army sergeant shoots 5 fellow soldiers at Fort Stewart army base in Georgia.

An Army sergeant has opened fire at a military base in Georgia, shooting and wounding five soldiers and prompting a brief lockdown at one of America's largest Army bases, officials have said.

The US Army identified the suspected gunman behind the shooting at Fort Stewart as 28-year-old soldier Sergeant Quornelius Radford.

Brigadier General John Lubas, the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, told reporters that Sergeant Radford appeared to use a personal handgun at his workplace, and described the wounded soldiers as Sergeant Radford's co-workers.

The gunman was now in custody, he added......

Chicago, with the strictest gun control laws in the USA...
Interesting, no official statement from the police if the gun was registered / legally owned by someone in the house.
14-year-old boy handling gun accidentally shot on South Side

The boy was handling a firearm around 1:15 p.m. in the 600 block of East 38th Street when it discharged, striking his right foot, police said in a statement.

He was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where he was listed in good condition, police said.

A firearm was recovered at the scene, police said. Area 1 detectives are investigating.

Teenager in custody after three people shot and wounded in New York City's Times Square.

Three people have been wounded in an early morning shooting in Times Square, the New York Police Department says.

The people — an 18-year-old woman, a 19-year-old man, and a 65-year-old man — are in a stable condition in hospital, an NYPD spokesperson said.

A 17-year-old boy is in custody, the police department added, and officers had recovered a firearm from the scene.

The shooting took place at about 1:20am local time, and followed a "verbal altercation" between the alleged shooter and one of the victims, the NYPD said.

It is not yet known whether the shooter or any of the victims knew each other.

Mass shootings are relatively common in the United States, where guns are widely available......

Deadly Shooting at Target in Texas.

Two people were killed and several others, including a child, were wounded Monday afternoon in a shooting outside a Target store in North Austin, authorities said.

Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis told KVUE that between three and five people were shot in the store's parking lot. Further details have not yet been released.

Police said the suspect is in custody...

...As of August 11, the Gun Violence Archive reports 9,136 gun-related deaths in the U.S. this year, including homicides, murders, and accidental shootings, with an additional 16,753 people injured. The nonprofit has documented 269 mass shootings and 10 mass murders, along with 396 murder-suicide incidents......

Hate begats hate. Every sycophant better look over their shoulder.
Kirk wrote:

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."

The 'God-given' right to bear arms was actually given by the United States Bill of Rights. It specified that the right to bear arms was based on the need for 'a well-regulated militia'., not the sort of absurd, self-indulgent chaos we see today.

Gunman opens fire on wedding guests at New Hampshire country club, leaving at least one dead.

At least one man has died and several other people have been injured after a mass shooting at a wedding in the US state of New Hampshire.

Police rushed to the scene of Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, near the border of Massachusetts, after reports of shots fired on Saturday about 7.30pm (local time).

Witnesses said the shooter entered the dining room and began shooting into the crowd.

It was only until a brave guest grabbed a chair and smashed it over the gunman’s head.

He fell to his knees, dropped the gun and then fled into the kitchen, local media reported.......

.......There have been 310 mass shootings so far in 2025, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

It seems to me, the 'God-given' right to bear arms was actually given in past times, when the society consisted predominantly of rational people, with extremely few mentally disturbed lunatics.

There's no end to this stupidity.

Brown University shooting in US leaves two students dead and nine injured.

Two students have died after a shooting in the engineering building at Brown University in the United States.

A further nine people were injured in the shooting and the suspect remains at large after fleeing the Ivy League school, officials said.

Providence Police responded to reports of a shooting shortly after 4pm on Saturday local time.

The suspect was a male dressed in black and was last seen leaving the building, said deputy chief of police, Timothy O'Hara.

Police believe the male suspect could be in his 30s and the firearm used in the shooting has not been found.......

No amount of laws will and enforcement can ever 100% prevent ...
https://apnews.com/article/australia-shooting-sydney-bondi-beach-31f711f09f677d0f88091ece25f651c1

Two gunmen attacked a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing at least 11 people

I grew up in a country where only police and military forces carried weapons. Only they had the right to carry, but not to own them. When off duty, weapons were safely stored in armories at police stations or military barracks, never in private homes. Policemen used their guns to practice shooting at gun ranges once a year and eventually to relieve wild animals of their pain, injured in traffic accidents. Each used cartridge was registered and documented. State-appointed (trustworthy) hunters owned a few hunting rifles and were subject to close police monitoring.

I reject the notion "no amount of... can ever prevent" because I think that's wrong. I've experienced such a high-trust society in my childhood where gun violence, public shootings, terrorist attacks, whatsoever... were unthinkable.

It's possible, if there's a will. Some people would have to relinquish certain rights they deem indispensable. Are they indispensable (e.g. 2nd amendment)?

Naturally, this came at the cost of restricted civil liberties; and an overreaching government, led by (well-meaning) autocrats, certainly not governed by the rule of law.

But there are examples, e.g. Finland, a liberal democratic state, ruled by law, with a vast number of hobbyist hunters owning legal hunting rifles. No known problems with gun violence (which I'm aware of).

I reject the notion "no amount of... can ever prevent" because I think that's wrong.

You can reject the notion, but you'd be very wrong and I wouldn't bet your life on it.

Hand guns for private use were banned here in the 1950's, fully automatic weapons were banned in the 1970's and lever/pump action, semi-automatic and firearms with a capacity of more than 5 shots were also banned in 1996 after the Port Arthur massacre so it could've been so much worse if we kept to the U.S way. There is no 2nd amendment or anything like it here.

Thankfully only a shotgun and 2 bolt action centre fire rifles were used (the father left the other 3 of his legal firearms at home).

The right are not saying a lot about this either as the father entered the country and obtained his firearm licence and weapons while they were in power at both state and federal levels, but they're willing to back tighter laws where only Australian citizens can now obtain a firearm licence (the father wasn't, but the son was born here) and the number of firearms that 1 person can licence will also be limited (talk is of 2-3 ATM).

But our biggest problem is outlaw bikie and criminal gangs with affiliations to American, Russian and SE Asian crime groups that do import illegal weapons into the country for their wars amongst themselves.

Now there's a twist in things as the father has been revealed as an Indian national.

Hand guns for private use were banned here in the 1950's, fully automatic weapons were banned in the 1970's and lever/pump action, semi-automatic and firearms with a capacity of more than 5 shots were also banned in 1996 after the Port Arthur massacre so it could've been so much worse if we kept to the U.S way. There is no 2nd amendment or anything like it here.

The Port Arthur massacre...

Bondi Beach terrorist Sajid Akram had firearm licence and gun club membership
wrote:

There are more than 1.1 million firearms registered to gun owners in NSW, with a third of those weapons registered in suburban Sydney — there are more guns in Australia now than before the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania.

“There are now over four million registered privately owned guns in Australia: 800,000 more than before the buyback,” [...]

Wiggo wrote:

Thankfully only a shotgun and 2 bolt action centre fire rifles were used (the father left the other 3 of his legal firearms at home).

Wrong.

Who are Sajid Akram and Naveed Akram, the father-son duo behind Bondi Beach terror attack?
wrote:

[...] The 50-year-old suspected shooter was licensed to own guns in NSW, and brought six of his registered guns to the beach on Sunday, Lanyon [NSW Police Chief] said.

Wiggo wrote:

But our biggest problem is outlaw bikie and criminal gangs with affiliations to American, Russian and SE Asian crime groups that do import illegal weapons into the country for their wars amongst themselves.

Of course, the biggest problem is never islamists but others. Liberal left wing politicians always prefer appeasement instead of confessing inconvenient truths, so as not to scrutinize [potentially harmful?] religious beliefs. Islamists may aren't the biggest problem but clearly those who act most ruthlessly. They only murder innocents... everywhere. Criminal gangs kill each other? Fine. I don't care. I'd just prefer the police would jail them first to prevent innocent collateral victims.

THE greatest step to Civilisation is the introduction of the Police.


That is:

A person of the people who intervenes as a third party to avoid disputes becoming violent, and to hunt down perpetrators of violence.


Having an environment of gung-ho weapons wielding idiots, makes the Civilizing job of the Police so much more difficult and fraught and deadly.


Only in the Wild West that is still the USA?

Stay safe folks?
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Yes and there's 9 million more people here now plus a lot of those who handed in their lever/pump actions and semi-automatics would have eventually gone out and bought a couple of bolt actions once they got their cheques and new firearms licences. I can tell you personally that the buyback was extremely generous for the 7 that I handed in at the time (3 were mine and the other 4 my departed father's, we were feral animal hunters).

That Firstpost news link is wrong, police only recovered 3 at Bondi and then later the other 3 from the father's home, that story was likely taking a police statement that said, "police recovered all 6 firearms owned by the father", as them being all from the same place, which they wern't. That's a fact as live TV news reports here showed the 3 firearms recovered from Bondi before the later raid was shown on the father's house was carried out where the other 3 were recovered. I couldn't even watch the cricket that evening as the whole incident took over all the channels all night.

And some people do like to focus on the smaller things than the bigger 1's and it's the bigger 1's that bring in the semi-automatic pistols, pump action shot guns and military style semi-auto weapons into the country to carry out their gang wars or even just turning up at the wrong house to shoot up. Even our state and federal oppositions arn't saying much about it politically because the father was allowed to enter the country when they we're running the country and he was given a firearms licence by this state while under control of the same party and then to make matters worse that same federal party when again ruling had the son under scrutiny for terrorism and let him off the hook. Those incidents all happened under 3 right wing governments (2 fed, 1 state) so don't give me that boring same old blame the lefty line when the right had their chances and totally blew it all 3 times.

Wiggo, both of us are getting heat, you much more, but because they have to disagree with us as if they didn't they might have to actually listen to what we are saying about a different topic and that we do make sense. It is also strange they they attribute the government of the USA to the government of Australia. Is that intentional or is it ignorance or both?

Anyway I see the five idiots of nine are thinking that a magazine is a gun. Time for a little mild civil unrest like Jan 6 to rock their building while they are inside.