I don’t find the regressions persuasive in showing that the recent acceleration in mass shootings is somehow associated with Trump, for a couple of reasons. The first is that if you look into the details of the mass shootings, it’s very hard to see how they could be associated with Tru...
- Mass shootings have commanded public attention on a disturbingly frequent basis across the U.S. But rather than provoking a unified response from elected officials, each additional shooting seems to be widening the political divide on gun policy among states. "It’s wash, rinse and repeat with...
Several studies, largely focused on mass public shootings, have sought to describe the characteristics of individuals who perpetrate mass shootings, evaluate characteristics of each mass shooting incident, and identify the behaviors and motivations that preceded each incident. Most of these studies are pu...
Still, in the wake of the El Paso and Dayton shootings, Trump has begun to strike a somewhat different tone on the issue, indicating that he would support “very meaningful background checks”.But Trump talked the same way after a gunman murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ...
And so is this:At President Trump’s White House meeting with survivors of school shootings and their family members, a father asked, “How many more children have to get shot?”, and this was deemed worthy of a front page headline. That’s an unethical question, a “When did you stop...
All Comrade Trump had to do yesterday was show up and make the day about the victims and the families of the victims of the mass shootings. That’s it. He didn’t have to solve all their problems, he didn’t have to tell them everything was going to be okay, he didn’t have to...
massacres” because there isenormous variationin the number of lives lost in each mass shooting. For example, 27 people were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, while no people were killed in 1,278 incidents that the Gun Violence Archive classified as “mass shootings” during 2017...
The congresswoman representing El Paso and her predecessor exchanged heated words with President Trump on the eve of his scheduled visit to the Texas border city. The president is slated to travel Wednesday to El Paso as well as Dayton, Ohio – the sites of weekend mass shootings.Rep....
The shootings occurred in two locations in South Carolina, as well as in Portland and Pittsburgh, in which shots fired during a party killed two minors and left at least 31 people wounded. The violence came after President Joe Biden last week highlighted his administration’s effort to brea...
Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama, who dealt with several mass shootings during his eight years in office, tweeted: “Michelle & I are praying for the victims in Las Vegas. Our thoughts are with their families & everyone enduring another senseless tragedy.” Michelle & I are praying fo...