STATEMENT: CAP President and CEO Neera Tanden on Las Vegas Concert Shooting

Washington, D.C. – Center for American Progress President and CEO Neera Tanden issued the following response on the mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada:

Last night’s shooting attack in Las Vegas has now become the deadliest mass shooting in recent American history, taking the lives of more than 50 people and wounding hundreds more—people who were doing nothing more than enjoying a night of music and dancing. Our immediate thoughts are with the victims, t...