With every mass shooting in America – and there is no shortage of those – we tend to forget about the ones that came before.

America is still reeling from the school shooting in Florida, and many of those teenagers affected have displayed a tenacity aimed at refusing to let lawmakers forget, but this time around we’re looking back at the horrors of what occurred in Las Vegas last October.

We have seen footage from that fateful night before, with the New York Times’ “10 Minutes. 12 Gunfire Bursts. 30 Videos” giving us a terrifying look inside the attack.

The video below was also compiled by the New York Times, and the original can be seen here. Titled “How the Las Vegas Gunman Planned a Massacre, in 7 Days of Video”, it comes with this tag line:

He Gambles. He Tips Staff. He Eats Alone. All the While, He’s Stocking His Vegas Suite With Guns.

You can read their account here, but this video should do the trick:

Still no motive, which leaves me wondering if it was all done just to see if he could pull it off.

The mind boggles.

[source:nytimes]