FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PAY FOR SHOOTINGS

A recent news article states that the Federal Government has put aside nearly $17 million for survivors of the Nevada concert shooting, the worst in U.S. history

Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Friday in Cincinnati that the money will defray costs of counseling, therapy, rehabilitation, trauma recovery and legal aid for thousands of people affected by the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre.*
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Fifty-eight people died and more than 850 were injured when a gunman opened fire from a high-rise hotel into an open-air country music concert crowd of 22,000 people.*

I was kind of shocked that the government was going to pay aid to shooting victims as I didn't know that it had been done before.  But then I thought, "Well if the government isn't going to do something about guns, then it may be in order for the government to pay reparations to victims of shootings."

So I looked into this and apparently it is not unusual for the government to do this.  Among other shooting events cited are:
An unspecified portion of the money [later said to be $29 million], allocated under the government’s national Crime Victim Assistance Formula Grant program, can be used to provide services to the families of victims of the shootings at Emmanuel AME Church, spokesman Kevin Lewis said.**
A payment was also made in the Sandy Hook school shooting and no doubt others.

* https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/us-las-vegas-shooting-funding/2018/11/30/id/892656/?d3310b9288ee&ns_mail_job=DM9600_11302018&s=acs&dkt_nbr=01013514ua2v
** https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/07/01/charleston-victims-payout/