The governor of Nevada on Monday signed both a declaration of emergency and a separate declaration of a public health and medical disaster following a shooting massacre in Las Vegas that killed 59 people and injured hundreds more.
The alleged gunman, Stephen Craig Paddock, set up rifles on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino and shot at an outdoor music festival hundreds of yards away. In addition to the dramatic death toll, hundreds were wounded by Paddock’s continuous sprays of bullets, leading to packed hospitals in the area.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s (R) declaration of a public health and medical disaster seeks to aid those medical centers by suspending certain state laws “to allow health care providers employed by a hospital and licensed and in good standing in another state to practice in Nevada in order to assist with the public health and medical disaster response operations.”
The declaration of a state of emergency similarly directs state employees to assist Clark County officials in their effort “to save lives, protect property, and protect the health and safety of person in this state.”
View both declarations below:
It’s about time this insane obsession with automatic weapons and all guns is treated not like a crime issue but a public health issue because that’s what it’s become!
I guess it’s all fine if a GOP Governor does it. I hope to hear some sanity from him, but I’ll have to wait.
While Sandoval is term limited, as it relates to this, its his wannabe successor who is currently in hot water.
These state folks never want to do stuff for themselves, always asking for someone else to do it for them, always looking for a hand out from the feds!
And I hope the folks that got shot have their own damn health insurance and don’t expect a govmint handout on that too!
Interesting that the guns used to commit this atrocity were legal because “it’s a fundamental right”, but the health insurance necessary to pay for treatment of his 500+ victims “is a privilege”.
All those people that want “freedom” from the burden of carrying health insurance never picture this sort of scenario, do they?
Those poor souls who were injured in this atrocity face not only ER costs, surgery, and hospitalization, but also months and months of rehab with no income coming in.
In a Republican world, guns are an absolute right, healthcare is merely a privilege.