Updated 4:35 p.m. ET on Friday
The Borderline Bar & Grill could be counted on for a good time.
On some of the more popular nights at the country music dance hall, the crowd inside could be counted on to be in the hundreds. The patrons could be counted on to be wearing plaid, boots, cowboy hats, and — if they were women — short shorts. What could not be counted on was that a gunman, armed with a Glock 21 .45-caliber handgun, would begin indiscriminately firing into those throngs of happy people.
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