Millions of guns, and countless murders
If you hope to wedge a mass shooting into U.S. national headlines, it helps if the massacre coincides with a football championship, the ongoing, nonprofit, heroic effort to catalog all the gun violence that takes place on any given day in America. As of Feb. 20, the Archive recorded 55 “mass shootings” since Jan. 1 , and among those, eight “mass murders”: four or more people killed.
That’s the drip, drip, dripping blood of daily life in the U.S.A. In media terms, most of these deaths are local, one-day stories. It takes a victory parade shoot-out, during which two young idiots with guns shoot blindly at each other, killing one person and wounding dozens more, before the story garners national headlines.
The DOJ report is thorough in the way that only broad, years-consuming, bureaucratic hindsight can be, but it largely confirms what was reflected in earlier reviews by the state Department of Public Safety and the Texas House of Representatives .
The DOJ report is heavy on administrative detail, light on necessary outrage. The most impactful passages are in fact the brief profiles of the dead, accompanied by photographs of the personal, commissioned murals that now distinguish Uvalde’s buildings as permanent memorials for the victims., 10, is remembered as a little girl who always put a smile on everyone’s face. Her name is Heaven spelled backwards.
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