Opinion: The latest shooting attacks show how the U.S. stands apart from the world
By Editorial Board May 1 at 7:06 PM “HE JUST started shooting during our final presentations and we all ran out. We were just doing presentations and someone started shooting up the room. . . . Why here? Why today? Why UNC Charlotte? Why my classroom? What did we do?” That was the frantic tweet of a student at the scene of Tuesday’s mass shooting in North Carolina, in which two students — 19-year-old Ellis Parlier and 21-year-old Riley Howell — were killed.
So far this year — that’s some 120 days — there have been more than 100 other mass shootings, more than 4,500 gun deaths and more than 8,400 gun injuries. And so there is no question that is more pertinent than the one asked by that terrified UNC Charlotte student: “Why?”
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