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Date: 2024-08-16 Page is: DBtxt001.php txt00022462 |
GUN VIOLENCE
MASS SHOOTING IN TEXAS Mother Jones ... Uvalde, Texas mass shooting ... He did not act alone Original article: Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | ||
Uvalde, Texas mass shooting
He did not act alone Mother Jones Daily Newsletter ... Mother Jones May 27, 2022 ... 3:00 PM 'We don't know his motive yet, but authorities believe he acted alone'…'it was a lone gunman'...' the shooter acted alone…' No, he didn’t. Whatever we learn about the Uvalde shooter, or any future ones—because there will be more—don't say they 'acted alone,' which is largely media code for 'this doesn't appear to be Islamic terrorism.' No matter the particulars, these 'lone' gunmen all have scores of accomplices. Here is a wholly incomplete list of those who bear direct responsibility in this slaughter of 19 children and two teachers, and the brutality visited on those still in the hospital, all the families, and the community and country at large:
Yes, the anti-majoritarian Senate and state legislators are pushing the ideas of an extreme minority onto the rest of us, on this subject and so many others. Yes, there are millions of guns out there already. That only means we have to fight harder, and for longer. But change can come if we are willing to put in the work. —Clara Jeffery, Editor-in-chiefTop Story The Epidemic of Mass Shootings Is Neither Inevitable Nor Unsolvable ... We can start by rejecting the big politicized myths that stand in our way. BY MARK FOLLMAN
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