“Our deepest sympathies and prayers for all of the victims and their families who have suffered in this Las Vegas concert shooting that happened this past Sunday night…. May God protect us all. Amen.”
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By Laurent Belsie | October 2, 2017
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At least 50 people were dead with hundreds more injured in a mass shooting in Las Vegas.
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The attacker, Stephen Paddock, fatally shot at least 58 people and wounded more than 500 attending the concert.
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Across the United States many cried and others turned to prayer. Some looked for something deep within themselves to counter a sense of helplessness in the face of senseless violence.
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In Oshkosh, Wis., another zero-murder metro in 2016, the Oshkosh Ahmadiyya Muslims posted a Facebook message Monday morning: “Our deepest sympathies and prayers for all of the victims and their families who have suffered in this Las Vegas concert shooting that happened this past Sunday night…. May God protect us all. Amen.”
For some, the chain of tragedies seemed almost overwhelming.
“I am fast losing the capacity to mourn all that we must mourn,” John Dorhauer, the general minister at United Church of Christ in Oshkosh, posted on Facebook. “Charlottesville becomes Houston becomes Florida becomes Puerto Rico becomes Las Vegas…. When will it end?"
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