Hello, I've really welcome back to another episode of the casual criminalist. As always, hello there.

I'm your host, Simon. Why don't you say one on my right? In this case, George. Thank you, George, has written me.

A script that I was very good shooting America's worst mass shooting. This was a 2017, six years ago, I believe.

And it's one of those moments where it's just so bad and so beyond anything that's come before it,

that you just, you see it in the news and you're like, I'm witnessing a moment in history, sort of,

I think of, I mean, it's different, obviously, but I think back on 9-11 in the same way,

and seeing that in the, in the news. And I think I was 13 at the time, 14. And it's just like,

whoa, I'm seeing history. I'm seeing one of the most important moments in history unfold on the

television. And it's weird being a part of that. And I remember seeing the news of the last

Vegas shooting and feeling the same way and thinking like, this is a big deal. This is a lot more

than normal and hopefully it's sort of changed something. I'm not sure if it did because there's still

mass shootings. There's been nothing this big since, but surely it's only a matter of time. I don't,

I don't know, and I remember this guy had like a homemade automatic gun or something. He'd managed

to take like a gun and make it automatic somehow using a modified stock or something like that.

And it's just like crazy that this can happen. Anyway, obviously we're going to dive in. This

is probably going to be a bit of a rough one. So let's jump into it. If you knew here, the

following of the show is I've not read this before. We're going to explore it together. So let's jump in.

It's hard to imagine a worst crime that a mass shooting. The epitome of senseless violence,

the horrific barbaric affairs in which lives are ended wholesale without warning, without reason,

without restraint. But even this doesn't quite compare correctly. There is something about such crimes

and the way they transform ordinary locations, the kinds usually typified by peace, tranquility,

and above all else happiness into scenes of unforgettable tragedy that makes them stinging away

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