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<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the gunman who killed 59 people and wounded more than 500 others at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas a &#8220;very, very sick individual.&#8221;</p><p>Trump spoke to reporters as he departed for a trip to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. He called the late gunman &#8220;demented&#8221; and said &#8220;we&#8217;re looking into him very seriously.&#8221;</p><p>Trump also praised Las Vegas police, saying they did an &#8220;incredible job.&#8221;</p><p>Asked about gun laws, the president said: &#8220;We&#8217;ll be talking about gun laws as time goes by.&#8221;</p><p>Trump has labeled the Sunday night massacre an &#8220;act of pure evil&#8221; and declared the nation would unite behind the survivors.</p><p>His remarks from the White House on Monday were the prelude to a two-part test of whether Trump, a leader who excels at political provocation, also can deliver solace. Trump will travel to Las Vegas on Wednesday to meet with families of the dead.</p><p>&#8220;Our unity cannot be shattered by evil, our bonds cannot be broken by violence,&#8221; the president said Monday. &#8220;We call upon the bonds that unite us: our faith, our family, and our shared values. We call upon the bonds of citizenship, the ties of community, and the comfort of our common humanity.&#8221;</p><p>Trump spoke hours after a gunman on the 32nd floor of a Vegas Strip casino opened fire on people at the outdoor country music festival below. The gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed himself in his hotel room before authorities arrived. It&#8217;s not clear what motivated the shooting, although his actions suggest he had planned the attacks for at least a period of days.</p><p>Trump, who owns a hotel in Las Vegas, told associates he feels deep ties to the city. He said in public that his visit would be &#8220;a very, very sad moment for me &#8230; for everybody no matter where you are, no matter what your thought process.&#8221;</p><p>Like presidents before him, Trump marked the Las Vegas shootings by ordering the American flags at all public buildings across the nation flown at half-staff, and he observed a moment of silence on the White House lawn.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">President Donald Trump speaks Monday in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/web1_trump-vegas.jpg</photo0><caption0>President Donald Trump speaks Monday in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
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Trump calls Las Vegas shooter ‘very sick,’ then briefly addresses gun laws