would be my guess. I see a lot of billboards with the message (essentially): "Did something bad happen to you? Well, let's SUE somebody!"

This will lead to legal counsel for high-rise hotels to strongly suggest to their clients that guests be screened before being let up to their rooms.

one would have if you slip on the hotel marble floor and crack your head open. Or the coffee maker in your room explodes and burns you, or if you find metal shaving in the pudding at the buffet, or if a chandelier falls and knocks you out, or if one of the other guests pulls out 15 guns from inside his suite, busts out the hotel suite window, starts shooting and wounds or kills you. It's why business has to carry liability insurance. Cause a shooter is definitely a liability. It is a reasonable expectation to be safe when engaged in doing business with a company that serves the public. I'll bet money those exact words are in the lawsuit. MGM owns the Mandalay Bay as well as the music festival. The liability lies with them.

An AR-15 has two major groups, an Upper Receiver and a Lower Receiver. You push two pins out, lift the upper off, and you have a weapon that'll easily fit in a regular-size suitcase. A big spinner case will hold at least five of them, and no one would raise an eyebrow if someone showed up at a hotel with two big spinners and two hanging bags.

Is the hotel expected to require every guest to open all their suitcases? Since someone shooting up the courtyard in front of the hotel is not a common occurrence, such an inspection would uncover lots of sex toys, medicines to treat diseases people are trying to keep private, confidential business documents and other non-firearm things.

And is the hotel expected to install video cameras in all rooms to make sure no one is taking guns out of their suitcases? Yeah, there's no danger of unscrupulous security guards watching the guests have sex, now is there?

One of these things is not like the other. A hotel can put down non-slip runners on its marble floors, buy non-exploding coffee pots and metal-free pudding and hang the chandelier properly...but do you really want some guy who makes nine bucks an hour to find a year's worth of The Advocate while he's pawing through your suitcase?

partially responsible? What are "the corporate and hotels' weapon possessions policies already in place and the implemented recent safety recommendations" that weren't enforced?

He was a wealthy man

How far will maybe 2-3 million go after the attorneys get their cut when spread amongst all the victims?

The attorneys are hoping for billions from the hotel, concert promoters and concert venue.

Personally I don't expect the case to succeed unless they can somehow prove negligence on the part of the hotel, concert promoters and concert venue.

But maybe if businesses are liable for the safety of their patrons in these types of events, the businesses will be less likely to support the NRA or lenient state gun laws.

Really, it's the manufacturer of that assault rifle who is liable, but right now they get a free pass thanks to the NRA.