ICHEOKU says it has happened again and this time on a scale never before imagined. The worst mass shooting ever in the United States of America and it was as big as it gets. It was at a Country Music Festival near Mandalay Hotel and Casino Las Vegas, where a crazed out gunman, Stephen Paddock, opened fire on concert goers and when it was over, 59 people lay dead and dying, while 527 others were wounded.
ICHEOKU laments that mass shootings in America has become a recurring decimal with no end in sight and it seems that Americans are gradually becoming numb to it. As always, speeches and condolences will be made and given; and after the usual empathies, the country moves on as another day of blood letting is filed away in our memory banks as an incident. ICHEOKU is not going to devote time here rehashing what has been severally written about before and on many occasions. The only thing to add here is that something needs to be urgently done about its recurrence frequency; at least if not to stop it completely, but hedge these mass shootings and bring them within a tolerable reasonable degree. For 59 people to just lose their lives like that with 527 others wounded is rather heartbreaking; moreso when they did not do anything to warrant nor deserve it. America, time to wake up is now and if not now, when. Enough of these mass shootings.
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