Today’s nearly indescribable tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, where
twenty-seven people, including eighteen children, were shot to death
inside an elementary school, is at least the sixteenth mass shooting to
take place in America this year. The death toll is now at eighty-four.
Here is a list of every fatal mass shooting that’s taken place since
January 1—defined as multi-victim shootings where those killed were
chosen indiscriminately. The tragedies took place at perfectly random
places—at churches, movie theatres, soccer tournaments, spas,
courthouses and, now, an elementary school. But given the frequency of
these awful events, perhaps in the long view their occurrence isn’t so
random after all—it’s predictable.
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