Strong believers in the Second Amendment sharply criticized that approach and vowed to battle back against it. The suspects’ mental health, ethnicity and religion were tossed into the fray, as the media picked at preliminary facts – and probed disparate theories – to try to explain why yet another mass shooting had occurred and how this country could prevent more of them in the future.
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Democrats, led by President Obama and presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, have sounded the cry for Congress to pass additional restrictions on firearms in the wake of two mass shootings in the past week.
Melinda Rivas, 51, a social worker who evacuated from the center, used a phrase often uttered around the nation when a mass shooting claims another community.
Despite our knowing so very little about the specific reasons for these shootings, though, there are some things we can say already.
The problem, in other words, is us.
But Professor Fox, co-author of “Extreme Killing”, slices the data differently.
My thoughts and prayers are with the shooting victims and their families in San Bernardino.
“They’re coming in to kill as many people as they can, as quickly as they can, so the old model – the police would get there, they would cordon the place off, you could talk people through – a large number of these events are going to be over before the cops get there”, Mr. O’Donnell said.
“There’s some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently”. How does that make sense? The shooting left 14 dead and several more injured.
“You will never hear me say his name”, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin told reporters.
Research by Harvard University suggests that the frequency of mass shootings has increased threefold since 2011, based on a survey of news reports by the liberal-leaning Mother Jones magazine. “Just a week after a deadly attack in Colorado Springs, we’re prepared to mourn more victims today”.
The tracker uses the same definition of mass shooting as the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that tracks firearm injuries and deaths across all categories in the United States, but with one crucial distinction: The tracker includes the attackers in its death tallies if the incident ends in the attacker’s death.
Other researchers have also been including domestic violence and gang-related shootings as mass shootings for years. That alone makes them worth doing.
A mass shooting would seem to be self-evident.
Though the shooters didn’t fit the usual lone-gunman profile, there was otherwise a dispiriting sameness to the incident, including the familiar bafflement about what could possibly drive someone to such a rampage: religious zealotry, workplace grievance, terrorism, simple madness, or some combination of motives?
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A day before the San Bernardino attack, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said legally armed citizens can discourage terrorists.
