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Article snippet: LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas is the entertainment capital of the world for many reasons. Those of us who work on the Strip have perfected the art of hospitality. We strive to make all of our guests feel like family. We welcome everyone, and we are not easily shocked. But Monday morning, residents, tourists, emergency medical workers, politicians and local reporters were in collective disbelief that our city had become the location of the most recent mass shooting in America. Hours before the shots rang out, I’d finished a long day of work at my casino job, exhausted and eager to get to my home, which is just two miles from where the shooting took place. Throughout the day on Sunday, I’d served guests poolside. Many of them were looking forward to the country music concert being held near the Mandalay Bay Resort hotel. All of them were happy and carefree. The feeling didn’t last. A gunman perched on the 32nd floor of the hotel fired into a crowd of 22,000 people gathered at the concert, the Route 91 Harvest Festival, killing more 50 and wounding hundreds. The venue was wedged between the Strip traffic clotting Las Vegas Boulevard and McCarran International Airport. It is an area of already limited access, in the heart of the city. This could have happened from the window of any of the properties on the Strip. I’ve worked at many of them, and I know this: All of us who keep the casinos, bars, pools and hotels running deeply care about our visitors. We call them by name. W... Link to the full article to read more