The Onion blanked its homepage with the identical article it has posted in response to many different cross mass shootings, skewering the concept such atrocities can’t be stopped.
‘No Manner To Forestall This,’ Says the Solely Nation The place This Frequently Occurs, reads the headline on the article, which was posted
The article was posted 21 occasions on the satirical web site’s residence web page, with every story akin to a distinct mass capturing. The Onion had posted the identical article earlier this month following the mass capturing at a grocery retailer in Buffalo, NY, and it has run the article quite a few occasions since 2014. That was after there was a mass capturing within the Isla Vista neighborhood close to Santa Barbara.
Jason Roeder, former senior author and editor at The Onion, posted on Twitter in 2018 that he wrote the headline. At the moment, there had simply been a mass capturing at Majory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty in Parkland, FL. “Once I wrote this headline, I had no concept it could be utilized to the highschool a mile from my home,” Roeder wrote on the time.
Authorities mentioned a gunman killed 19 kids and two academics when he opened fireplace at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, TX.
The Onion article reads: “Within the hours following a violent rampage in Texas wherein a lone attacker killed a minimum of 21 people and injured a number of others, residents dwelling in the one nation the place this type of mass killing routinely happens reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no method to stop the bloodbath from happening. “‘This was a horrible tragedy, however typically these items simply occur and there’s nothing anybody can do to cease them,’ mentioned Idaho resident Kathy Miller, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of tens of millions of people who reside in a nation the place over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred previously 50 years and whose residents are 20 occasions extra more likely to die of gun violence than these of different developed nations.”
Actual-life response to the latest mass capturing has centered on the inaction. On the ground of the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) mentioned, “What are we doing? What are we doing?”
He chided senators who “undergo all the effort of getting this job, of placing your self able of authority” however then reply by doing nothing.
Beto O’Rourke, who’s operating for governor, crashed a press convention being given by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, pointing at him at one level and saying, “This was completely predictable.” Abbott has signed laws loosening the state’s gun legal guidelines.
