Flamingo & Durango shooting + Steve Wynn + Fans fighting

I met a guy who is originally from North Carolina a few years back in Las Vegas. We have become very good friends since. He came over last night to watch the game and have a few cocktails:

"I heard a guy got smoked in your neighborhood. I thought you lived in the nice part of town." He was referring to a shooting that happened yesterday morning at the corner of Flaming and Durango - "It doesn't matter what part of town you live in. You can get smoked anywhere in Las Vegas," I reply, I then add, "Do you still carry your gun with you everywhere you go?" - "Damn straight I do. It is better to have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it. That has always been my philosophy," he replies.

"Have things returned to normal on the strip since the massacre? I mean as normal as it can be." James works security on the strip and has been stationed at Mandalay Bay the last week for a convention - "It is kind of weird to be honest with you. Nobody is talking about it. It seems to me like business as usual. I did hear Steve Wynn has upped things quite a bit at his places. Bag checks and metal detectors. My buddy at work said the Wynn properties are loaded with a lot of ex Israeli commandos working security." I read an article the other day where Steve Wynn stated a shooter would not last three minutes at his properties. I told James that and he says - "Hopefully, he never has to back that proclamation up."

We change the talk to football and he tells me about a fight he got in at a Panther's game when he lived in North Carolina - "I was younger and a lot meaner back then. They were playing the Giants and a bunch of loudmouths from New York were in the seats in front of me. They wouldn't sit down and you know how people bring fences to games with a big wooden D on them. He kept shoving that thing in my face. I tried to be polite about it, but they were drunk. So I grabbed the prop from them and smashed it. The next thing you know it was on. My buddy and I were swinging it out with these guys in the upper deck. Security eventually got there and threw us out. It's a good thing all this was before cellphones came along. If not I'm sure I would have been on the Internet two minutes after it happened." I was laughing so hard while he told the story I damn near fell out of my seat.