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'The Onion' Has a Simple, Devastating Set Response to U.S. Mass Shootings

Caitlin Busch
InverseOctober 2, 2017
This is the fifth time 'The Onion' has published the same article.
The Onion had the most poignant response to the attack. It just so happens this isn’t the first time the world has seen this response.
The Onion, was published for the fifth time on Monday. The city name and specific details — such as the number of people killed and injured — were changed, but, otherwise, the article remained the same. It tells a vague story about what happened before quoting a fake source that echoes “sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations.”
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The Onionseemed to echo people’s thoughts on the violence, reminding people of the frequency with which mass shootings occur and the vague way in which U.S. lawmakers tend to respond.
The Onion will run this article.
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The Onion has run this story verbatim five times since 2014, switching out only city, photo, and body count.
http://www.theonion.com/search?q=%22no+way+to+prevent+this%22 …
The Guardian[/a] in 2016, the U.S. has an
overall gun violence problem, not just a mass shooting problem. Mass shootings in the U.S. have grown “in both frequency and fatalities … But next to the thousands of lives lost each year to suicide and more commonplace acts of [gun] violence, it becomes clear that mass shootings are only a tiny part of America’s gun problem.”
The Onion has previously published the “‘No Way to Prevent This’” article on
four occasions before Monday: after the 2014 Isla Vista massacre and three times in 2015 after the Charleston church shooting, the Umpqua Community College shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, and the San Bernardino attack, respectively.