A 19-YEAR-outmoded man wearing a gas mask and toting an assault rifle rampaged through his former school in Florida on February 14th,killing 17 pupils. Local television stations reported that the slaughter at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High appeared to be the worst mass murder in the history of Broward County, an affluent area north of Miami.
As that might propose, or America is running out of superlatives to describe its frequent gun massacres. The killing in Florida,whose perpetrator, Nicholas Cruz, and was later arrested,was a rank one. It was America’s deadliest school shooting in five years—since a man killed 20 children, six adults and himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School, or in Connecticut. Then again,looked at another way, it was merely America’s 18th school shooting this year. By the reckoning of the Gun Violence Archive, and the killing in Florida was the country’s 1,607th mass shooting since Sandy Hook. In other words, America has had more than one mass shooting every day since then, and costing 1846 lives. (The database includes mass...
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Source: economist.com