# Something else I don't understand about the Vegas shooting.

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**Created:** [October 5, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-else-i-dont-understand-about-the-vegas-shooting/798050 "2017-10-05T18:49:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-else-i-dont-understand-about-the-vegas-shooting/798050/61 "2017-10-13T01:30:52Z")

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I would think that hotels/casinos would be far more likely to employ [detection dogs](http://forensicoutreach.com/library/sniffing-out-the-evidence-4-things-you-should-know-about-detection-dogs/) rather than metal detectors that are going to be hitting so many false positives to be useless or calibrated so low that they’re equally likely to miss a threat.

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**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-else-i-dont-understand-about-the-vegas-shooting/798050/62 "2017-10-15T01:27:35Z")

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> [@Projammer](#):
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> I would think that hotels/casinos would be far more likely to employ [detection dogs](http://forensicoutreach.com/library/sniffing-out-the-evidence-4-things-you-should-know-about-detection-dogs/) rather than metal detectors that are going to be hitting so many false positives to be useless or calibrated so low that they’re equally likely to miss a threat.

They have dogs too. According to[this story](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4943020/Las-Vegas-rampage-prompt-casinos-think-security-experts.html):

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> Hotels already have extensive security for gambling, including dogs that patrol the casinos to sniff for drugs and bombs, and significant security staff that constantly monitors the actions of people, including undercover security.

Whether or not the measures would have prevented a mass shooting is impossible to say but the point is Wynn actually did, over a year before, go on record as saying LV was a target city and he was employing hightened security at his hotels. He was dismissed as being ‘obsessed’ by other casino operators. So now he does technically sit on high enough ground to criticize them and say I told you so.

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> In an interview with Las Vegas’ KTNV in 2016, Wynn, who is the Wynn Resorts CEO said: ‘Las Vegas is a target city. We have hardened the target at the Wynn.’
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> He said his company has metal detectors and devices at every entrance of its building for employees and guests that are nonvisible to the public as well as specially trained guards.
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> ‘There are almost 40 of them at every opening of my building, plain clothes, armed, on the look-out, changing shift and being relieved every two hours so they don´t get bored,’ he said.
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> ‘We have done extraordinary things to make sure that we protect our employees and our guests at the hotel,’ Wynn said.
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> His comments were confirmed on Monday by company spokesman Michael Weaver.
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> While other casino operators have contemplated heightened security measures, none have gone to the lengths of Wynn, the rival casino executive said.

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