During the shooting in a California bar there were a lot of people who survived the shooting in Las Vegas

During the shooting at Borderline Bar & Grill in Southend Oaks, California, there were several people who survived the October 2017 Las Vegas Country Festival shooting, which killed 58 people.

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On the day of the shooting, 7 November, Borderline hosted the evening “College Country Night!”, So there were fans of country music, many of whom were at the festival in Vegas, writes New York Times.

And now, at least some of them belong to a unique group of Americans - survivors of two mass shootings. But, unfortunately, not all the guests of the bar managed to survive both of these shootings.

When a gunman opened fire at the Route 91 festival in Las Vegas last year, Telemachus Orfanos survived, but shooting in a California bar claimed his life.

“He was killed at Borderline. He passed through Las Vegas and returned home. And last night he didn't come home, and the three words that I want to tell you and emphasize to you are: gun control. Enter it now so no one else has to go through this,” said the victim's mother, Susan Orphanos.

The shooter, 28-year-old Ian Long of Newbury Park, California, was found dead in the bar. After he had killed 12 people, he shot himself. His gun was purchased legally.

During the shooting at the bar were from 130 to 180 people. After making the first shots, after which people tried to hide, the shooter wandered around the devastated dance floor, re-shooting the wounded lying on the floor.

Visitor Taylor Whittler said that the man quickly reloaded weapons and again started shooting.

“He knew what he was doing. He was in great shape,” she said.

In addition to the 12 dead, another 22 man was injured and was taken to hospital.

Brendan Kelly, 22, was among those who survived both the Las Vegas shooting and the Borderline Bar & Grill shooting.

“This is my worst nightmare. It’s terrible,” he admitted.

Some of the survivors of both shootings wrote about the shooting in Las Vegas on social networks, including information about the memorial event in April of this year in Borderline.

Kelly posted his Facebook photo in a Vegas Strong T-shirt at that event at Borderline. But the shooting at this bar shocked him.

“It's too close to home. Borderline was our safe space. This was our home, there were probably 30 or 45 of us who live in Ventura County who were in Las Vegas. This was our place where we went the next week after the shooting, for three nights in a row, so we could just be with each other,” Kelly said.

Survivors in the shooting in Las Vegas, the most massive in US history, created their own closed groups in social networks, often met and talked.

Bar Borderline was one of several places that the survivors used for their meetings to heal their emotional wounds after the terrible shooting in 2017, and now many of them survived it again.

42-year-old Janey Scott, who survived the shooting in Las Vegas, which runs the Facebook page for the survivors, said that the 47 people who survived in Las Vegas published on their pages that they were in Borderline 7 in the evening of November.

After the shooting, she spoke to several of them.

“They're just broken. I've heard a lot of questions about why this has become our new normal. This shouldn't happen. Not at all,” she said.

Molly Maurer, a woman who survived both shots, wrote on Facebook on November 8 in the morning: “I can’t believe I’m saying this again. I am alive and well. ”

Later that day, she wrote: “In this chaos and grief, I just want to say that Borderline is our place. Our parents went here, our friends work here, we celebrate our happy moments here and drown out our sorrows. We will come out of this stronger than ever."

26-year-old Chris Weber considers himself a double lucky guy. On Wednesday, he was on his way to Borderline to meet with friends when he was informed of the shooting. He rushed to the scene, standing outside the police fence and waiting for information about the fate of his friends. And last year he planned to attend a country music festival in Vegas, but at the last moment he changed his mind.

“Someone is looking out for me. And for the people who managed to get out on Wednesday evening, someone is also looking after them,” he said.

He said that he was familiar with many people who were present at both firing.

“No one should have to go through shooting, especially twice,” Weber said.

25-year-old Michael Millar often went to Borderline, but was not there on the evening of the shooting. Although many of his friends were. One of his friends, who survived the shooting in Vegas, said that when he heard the first shots, he thought it was fireworks. But this time he was already taught by bitter experience and immediately recognized the sound of shots.

He told Millar: "I learned in Vegas not to think twice, but just to get out." The man survived both shooting.

Recall, November 7 in the bar of the city of Southend-Oaks northwest of Los Angeles shooting occurredwhich killed at least 12 people.

Shooting in Las Vegas occurred on the night of October 2 2017 of the year near the Mandalay Bay hotel complex during a country music festival. 64-year-old Steven Paddock opened fire on the spectators from the hotel window. As a result, 58 people died, about 500 were injured. The criminal himself shot himself before the police managed to reach him.

The Las Vegas massacre was the most massive firearm killing in US history.

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