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What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer

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When the world looks at the United States, it sees a land of exceptions: a time-tested if noisy democracy, a crusader in foreign policy, an exporter of beloved music and film.

But there is one quirk that consistently puzzles America’s fans and critics alike. Why, they ask, does it experience so many mass shootings?

Perhaps, some speculate, it is because American society is unusually violent. Or its racial divisions have frayed the bonds of society. Or its citizens lack proper mental care under a health care system that draws frequent derision abroad.

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The New York Times |Source: Adam Lankford, The University of Alabama (shooters); Small Arms Survey (guns). Note: Includes countries with more than 10 million people and at least one mass public shooting with four or more victims.

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Shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Kills at Least 9

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At least nine people were killed and 16 were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, the second American mass shooting in less than 24 hours and the third in a week.

The shooting began at 1 a.m. on East Fifth Street in the city’s Oregon entertainment district, the Dayton Police Department said. It said on Twitter that officers were “in the immediate vicinity when this shooting began and were able to respond and put an end to it quickly.”

Officers shot and killed the gunman, who was using a long gun, the police said.

“As bad as this is, it could have been much, much worse,” Lt. Col. Matt Carper, an assistant police chief, told reporters.

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Investigators at the site of a deadly shooting in Dayton, Ohio, early on Sunday.CreditCreditJohn Minchillo/Associated Press

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Pete Buttigieg: America ‘Under Attack From Homegrown White Nationalist Terrorists’

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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg expressed concerns Saturday that the U.S. is “under attack” by white nationalists carrying out mass shootings — and those white nationalists have been encouraged by President Donald Trump. 

Buttigieg was one of 19 Democratic presidential candidates speaking at a forum in Las Vegas sponsored by the public-sector labor union AFSCME. During the event, co-moderated by HuffPost’s Amanda Terkel and The Nevada Independent’s Jon Ralston, news broke of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, in which at least 20 people were killed and 26 others injured. 

Unconfirmed reports indicated the suspected shooter, a 21-year-old from the Dallas area, posted a manifesto to the 8chan message board hours before the shooting, in which he allegedly professed his white nationalist ideology and his belief that Texas is under “Hispanic invasion.” Law enforcement officials said they are aware of the document but have yet to confirm the shooter did, in fact, write it. 

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Beyond Gilroy and El Paso: A Week of Bloodshed Underscores a Spate of Mass Shootings

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At least 20 people were killed on Saturday in an armed attack at a Walmart in El Paso, the nation’s second mass shooting in less than a week after three fatalities at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., last Sunday.

Saturday’s bloodshed in Texas represented the 31st mass killing by firearms in 2019. A mass killing is defined by the Justice Department as three or more killings in a single episode. There is no legal definition for the term “mass shooting,” despite its frequent use by gun control groups and the news media.

 

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The gunman who killed three people at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., fatally shot himself after exchanging gunfire with police officers, the authorities said on Friday.CreditNoah Berger/Associated Press

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20 Dead In Texas Walmart Mass Shooting

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Twenty people have been killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, authorities said, and police have a 21-year-old male suspect in custody.

The Saturday morning massacre also injured 26 people, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at a press conference. 

“Texas grieves for the people of El Paso today,” Abbott said. “A day that would have been a normal day for someone to leisurely go shopping turned into one of the most deadly days in the history of Texas. Lives were taken who should still be with us today.”

Del Sol Medical Center spokesman Victor Guerrero told HuffPost the El Paso hospital has 11 patients from the shooting, nine of whom were in critical condition. The other two he listed as stable condition.

Police said blood donations are “needed urgently.” 

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Capital One says data breach affected 100 million credit card applications

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Capital One, the Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business, announced Monday that a hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, and investigators say thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers were also taken.

The FBI has arrested a Seattle-area woman, Paige A. Thompson, on a charge of computer fraud and abuse, according to court records.

The hack appears to be one of the largest data breaches ever to hit a financial services firm. In 2017, the credit-reporting company Equifax disclosed that hackers had stolen the personal information of 147 million people. Last week, it reached a $700 million settlement with U.S. regulators over that breach.

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When Lawmakers Try to Ban Assault Weapons, Gunmakers Adapt

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As the United States witnesses dozens of mass shootings each year, one proposal to limit the carnage turns up again and again: an assault weapons ban.

Even though military-style weapons are used in few shootings, they have proven to be the deadliest, and the most visible targets for legislation.

But the nature of today’s most popular rifles — and the determination of gunmakers, firearms hobbyists and Second Amendment enthusiasts — means weapons bans have worked better in theory than in practice.

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