Washington Post (July 29)
“Once again America woke up to news of a mass shooting. This time, it was at a popular food festival in California and among those killed was a 6-year-old boy, Stephen Romero, who had been playing at an inflatable bounce house when he was shot in the back.” Three died and twelve were injured. “It took just one horrific shooting spree in New Zealand to prompt leaders there to tighten gun laws, including a ban on most semiautomatic weapons. And so the question persists: “Why?”
Tags: Bounce house, California, Food festival, Gun laws, Injured, Mass shooting, New Zealand, Romero, Semiautomatic weapons, Shot, U.S., Why
The New Yorker (October 3)
“Stephen Craig Paddock’s murder of more than fifty people in Las Vegas is, according to one measure, the three hundred and thirty-eighth mass shooting…. This year.”
Tags: Las Vegas, Mass shooting, Murder, Paddock, U.S.
Washington Post (October 2)
“America has no monopoly on evil or sick people, yet it loses far more people to gun violence. Other countries — notably Australia following a mass shooting in 1996 — have demonstrated the possibility of bans on assault weapons and other common-sense restrictions. What makes America unique is the absence of political will and leadership.”
Tags: Assault weapons, Australia, Bans, Common-sense restrictions, Evil, Gun violence, Leadership, Mass shooting, Monopoly, Political will, U.S.
USA Today (June 21)
“You’d think that if there was one step both parties in Washington could support in the wake of the nation’s worst mass shooting, it would be to close a yawning gap in federal gun background checks…. Yet in an extraordinary act of cowardice,” over 50 “spineless lawmakers voted against advancing a commonsense measure to expand background checks to virtually all sales of guns, not just those sold by federally licensed dealers.”
Tags: Background checks, Commonsense, Cowardice, Dealers, Guns, Lawmakers, Mass shooting, Spineless, Washington
Los Angeles Times (October 1)
“Today’s mass shooting at an Oregon community college brings us once again to the national crisis that we, as a democratic society, keep proving we’re incapable of resolving.” The numbers don’t seem to “matter because, within the framework of the nation’s sick approach to gun violence, the dead never seem to count.”
Tags: Crisis, Dead, Gun violence, Mass shooting, Oregon, Society, U.S.