The Department of Homeland Security said it has “no information to indicate a specific credible threat involving other public venues in the country” following a deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas that left at least 50 dead and hundreds injured.
“At this time, we have no information to indicate a specific credible threat involving other public venues in the country. However, increased security in and around public places and events may be experienced as officials take additional precautions,” the department said in a statement.
Read the full DHS statement below:
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke has been briefed on the horrific shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada last night. The Department is closely monitoring the situation and working with our federal, state and local partners in responding to and investigating this tragedy.
At this time, we have no information to indicate a specific credible threat involving other public venues in the country. However, increased security in and around public places and events may be experienced as officials take additional precautions.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this incident as we work to support the Las Vegas community.
Fuck these guys with their ¨thoughts and prayers¨.
We need gun control, not empty clichés.
Good that we have the Muslim travel ban in place to keep us safe.
Copycats?
“No specific credible threat” is great as far as it goes, but there is grave potential for both spontaneous and planned violence, including mass killings, all over this country every single day due to the plague of guns and the fetishizing of them. Thank you, NRA and GOP. You are a couple of gifts that just keep on giving. Protecting my right to get shot and die from lack of health care, blissful in the knowledge that my lowly travails helped the likes of Mnuchin buy another jet.
As far as we know, there were no credible threats before the LV shooting and none will be found. Since almost anyone can easily get guns anytime they want and not all future mass murderers will send a manifesto or post to facebook before carrying out their crime, this statement from DHS doesn’t really carry a lot of weight.