From my notes: “The murderer in the Las Vegas shooting legally purchased firearms from Nevada, Utah, California, and Texas.”
They were on leave in Las Vegas during the mass shooting. The ‘they’ are six soldiers from the UK’s Queen’s Dragoon Guards. The half-dozen men had been taking part in a training exercise in the Nevada desert and were enjoying their time-off and a drink in a nearby casino at the time.
Ross Woodward explains that the six of them used their training to try and save as many people as they could, using pillows, tea towels, belts and their shirts as makeshift tourniquets to stop the injured bleeding out as dead bodies lay around them.
“At first we just believed it was fireworks and then there was chaos. Everyone was screaming the ‘gun man’s coming.’ I wouldn’t consider myself a hero – I just think any soldier would have done the same in our position.
You are never off duty. You always have this level of professionalism about yourself, where you feel like you should help, you should be there to help people.
You have got the background, you have got the training to help people, so why wouldn’t you. I hope we saved lives, I like to think we did what we could.”
The Old Blog in the Desert 
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