6/22/2023 0 Comments Onion headline meme![]() ![]() The article’s been shared thousands of times on social media, and some on Twitter have taken notice of the piece’s repackaging: At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”.“This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said _ resident _, echoing 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. ![]() …citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded… that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place.The facts and dates surrounding the particular shooting change each time the story is republished, but key lines remain: You might have seen the article by now: ” ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” The Onion, a satirical news site that runs fake news stories, has published a story with that headline three times over the last year and a half: this week after a shooter killed nine people at an Oregon community college in June of this year after a violent rampage in a black Charleston church that also killed nine people and last May, after a shooting at the University of California Santa Barbara that killed seven. ![]()
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