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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

EL PASO, TX—In the hours following a violent rampage in Texas in which a lone attacker killed 20 individuals and injured 26 others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Sunday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Indiana resident Janet Clark, 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. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” 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 eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

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Wall Street Journal:

By Emily Nelson

Updated August. 4, 2019 5:16 am ET

Police in Dayton, Ohio, said nine people were killed and at least 16 injured in a shooting early Sunday and that the shooter is dead.

It was the second mass shooting in the U.S. in less than 24 hours and the third in a week. On Saturday, a gunman opened fire in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing at least 20 and injuring 26, some critically. A shooter had killed three and injured 13 at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, in Gilroy, Calif., the prior Sunday.

The latest incident began at 1 a.m., the police said. Officers were “in the immediate vicinity when this shooting began and we were able to respond and put an end to it quickly,” the Dayton Police Department said in a tweet. The shooting occurred in the Oregon District, police said, a neighborhood of bars and restaurants that is popular on weekend nights.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating, the police said. Police described it as a large scene and investigation.

The 16 injured were taken to local hospitals, police added.