Frank Shyong: Treating mass shootings as political discourse only gives killers more influence
A series of shootings over the weekend have once again left us all reeling and searching for answers in the aftermath. Ten people died in what authorities are calling a racially motivated shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday. The shooter targeted a Black neighborhood and left a trail of white supremacist statements for investigators online, according to police. On ...
by Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times
May 18, 2022
3 minutes
A series of shootings over the weekend have once again left us all reeling and searching for answers in the aftermath.
Ten people died in what authorities are calling a racially motivated shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday. The shooter targeted a Black neighborhood and left a trail of white supremacist statements for investigators online, according to police.
On Sunday, a 68-year-old Asian man chained the doors shut and opened fire at worshipers inside Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, killing one and
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