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Originally Posted by troutman
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You'd have to show that what the standard should have been and whether that breach of the standard actually resulting in the shooting.
In a state where gun laws are lax and it's not typical to search suitcases going into hotels, I think it'd be a tough case. How do you stop someone from bringing in a weapon into one of your rooms via suitcase and unloading it on people below? If someone did the same thing in a restaurant, would you blame the restaurant. Vegas hotels are also very different than regular hotels in that they are very open to the public. Tens of thousands of people are going in and out every day. It'd be impossible to search them all while maintaining the current concept of a Vegas hotel.
It'll be another issue entirely if new facts come out showing the hotel should have been suspicious or was tipped off or if there was something specific about the hotel/rooms, which delayed stopping the shooting.
I guess you could also make a case against the venue for putting the concert in a place that was overlooked by hotel rooms. Once again, that's a tough case to make in Las Vegas.
I've only worked on one file involving a Las Vegas plaintiff, and from what I saw the courts/juries were not very receptive of personal injury cases in general. Most libertarian places tend not to be.
Edit: I also don't know enough about metal detectors to know if you could rig them in a way to go off when a suitcase full of weapons comes in, but not go off when someone with a belt buckle walks in.
You could make the case that all the hotels should have worked out a cost sharing deal with city/state to have SWAT teams close by. Once again, not sure if that's feasible or would have even preventing the shooting. Based on the timeline, it sounds like the shooter stopped shooting relatively quickly, and there was a sizeable gap between then and when the SWAT team entered. So having the SWAT team closer may not have helped.