I am in Vegas visiting with my girlfriend. We were at the hockey game and then had dinner at Nobu at Caesars before the shooting. We were in a locals bar when the shooting started.

I couldn't sleep. I can't imagine how anyone in this city could.

The dead and the wounded are locals as well as tourists. These scars will run deep.

Vegas was always a fun town. You might have lost your money but last night people lost their lives. You can laugh about losing your money. When people lose their lives the laughter stops.

The bar I was in last night was called Time Out. Instead of being a place with a happy crowd and karaoke, last night it was a place where employees of Mandalay Bay sat thankful they had the day off and later it was a place where survivors talked about their close call and how people next to them took bullets. A bartender told how a police officer she knew was dead.

Will anyone want to stay at Mandalay Bay again? Will we feel survivors guilt if we played in its casino in the future?

I remember when New York New York turned its Statue of Liberty into a memorial after 9-Eleven. Will the South Strip now become hallowed ground where there will be no place or time for Vegas glitz?

Vegas is a small town. In the days ahead many locals will have to come to grips that someone they know was killed or wounded. How do you deal cards or count out chips or handle money knowing that?

Las Vegas died last night.