I don't care how conservative you are, if you can't see a problem when a person can have an automatic weapon (or semi automatic?) and gun down hundreds from a balcony then I don't know how to help you. Its incredibly disturbing and sad that these acts of terrorism with mass casualties continue to happen in our country.
Lots to unpack in these two short sentences....
1. Are you assuming that conservatives "can't see a problem" with a mass killing? It's sickening.
2. Whether the weapon was "automatic" or "semi-automatic" is one of the things we still don't know for certain unless it has been declared in the past hour, and is a highly relevant fact to deciding what, if any, "gun control" would have prevented this tragedy.
3. We have no credible evidence at this point that this was an act of terrorism by any rational definition of the word. Terrorism is violence driven by a political or social motive. Without such motivation, all mass killing would be considered terrorism, and that is dumb (and yes, let's all acknowledge this is exactly how Nevada law stupidly defines terrorism). This is not a matter of semantics: what constitutes terrorism may determine the type of action taken in response.
I think many conservatives can see the problem, but there is a choice to not address the problem with guns, especially these types of guns that are made simply to kill lots of people quickly. There is no reason sensible gun control legislation can't be drafted and passed in this country.
And per the argument, "gun control wouldn't have prevented this incident", yes you are probably right. And sensible gun control might not prevent it tomorrow, or next year, or even 5 years from now. But gun control legislation and at least partially changing the mindset towards guns, especially guns that only are made to kill lots of people, may prevent another tragedy of this sort 20-30 years from now. I don't believe that people capable of the evil it takes to perform these types of acts are going away, but I do believe that a movement to make it much more difficult to get the types of weapons that can kill on this scale will at least prevent something this terrible in the future.
Finally, I don't know the semantics of what defines terrorism and we can wordsmith it all we want to, but I can't see killing on this scale anything other than a terrorist act, no matter what the motivation.