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Consider This from NPR

Can We Stop Mass Shootings Before They Start?

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 28 May 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In the past two weeks the nation has borne witness to the tragedy of two mass shootings. In Uvalde, Texas, a gunman killed 19 students and their two teachers inside a fourth grade classroom at Robb Elementary School. At least 17 were wounded.

In Buffalo, New York, a man is accused of shooting and killing 10 members of the Black community who were shopping at Tops supermarket. In a long internet screed, he wrote about how online racist ideology and white supremacist conspiracy theories fueled his violence. Witnessing the aftermath of these horrific acts leaves us wondering, once again, what can be done to identify the warning signs of those who plan to commit mass violence—before it's too late?

We speak with Joanna Schroeder about ways to protect young people from being indoctrinated into violent white supremacist groups. Schroeder chronicles her sons' exposure to content from online racist hate groups and how she intervened.

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0:00.0

Another massacre, you Valde, Texas, an elementary school, beautiful, innocent, second, third,

0:15.7

fourth graders.

0:17.4

The nation's attention is focused once again on a shattering act of violence.

0:22.7

Earlier this week an 18-year-old man killed 19 children and two teachers and wound it at

0:27.6

least 17 more.

0:29.9

Families and friends of victims are in shock and grieving, trying to come to grips with

0:34.4

the idea that this sort of thing can happen in their small town and they're wondering

0:39.2

why.

0:40.2

I want to just extend our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to the family members

0:48.9

of the victims of the vicious attack on our community.

0:55.1

That's Byron Brown, the mayor of Buffalo, New York.

0:58.2

Just 10 days before the school shooting in Texas, a different gunman also 18 drove from his

1:03.7

home hours away to a supermarket heat picked out in advance and shot 13 people killing

1:09.2

10 of them.

1:10.6

The indoctrination of a boy to kill people that don't look like him is only because somebody

1:18.0

is having a conversation that divides our people as a race and as humanity.

1:26.9

And if we have got to stop and this is not isolated to our community, this has been happening

1:32.2

for over 400 years.

1:42.8

Pastor Tim Brown spoke at a vigil following the shootings in Buffalo after it became clear

1:47.7

through the shooter's social media posts that his actions were fueled by racist ideologies.

1:53.3

He was on a mission to kill black people.

1:56.5

Here this, the motives of the shooters in Buffalo and Newvaldi may not have been the

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