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Salt Lake City music venues react to Las Vegas tragedy: 'We all have to band together to protect ourselves'

Mass shooting prompts Red Butte Garden to re-examine its policy on what will be allowed into the venue.

(Chris Detrick | Tribune file photo) J.J. Grey & Mofro perform at Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Bryn Ramjoué, the venue's director of communications, acknowledged in the wake of a mass shooting at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, "We feel that sense of vulnerability."

The Sunday night massacre at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas has personnel at some Salt Lake City-area music venues examining what, if anything, can be done to make their patrons safer.