Lewiston ME mass shooting

From NBC:
The believed death toll of 22 in tonight’s shooting is almost or more than the annual number of homicides in all of Maine.

Last year there were 29 homicides in Maine, which has a population of almost 1.4 million, according to statistics from the State Department of Public Safety. In 2020, there were 20.

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#Journal, Day 1126
Wednesday, 19 April 2023

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It's not the pins that pop balloons, it's the people carrying the pins.

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‘It’s the guns’: violent week in a deadly year prompts familiar US responses

The trouble is that Americans talk about mass shootings the way other societies talk about rape: as somehow inevitable, like the weather. “A woman was raped” (note lack of reference to the man who raped her). “Some people were killed by gun violence” (note lack of reference to the shooter).

#itsTheFuckingGuns #StopGuns #GunControlNow — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/23/us-gun-violence-mass-shootings-2022-walmart-virginia-colorado?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Mapping the Las Vegas Massacre

10 Minutes. 12 Gunfire Bursts. 30 Videos.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krr4u6uGdzc