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In the recent shooting that happened in Thousand Oaks, California on November 7 2018, the shooter was mentally unstable but was able to purchase a gun LEGALLY. The police knew he was MENTALLY UNSTABLE. They did nothing about that. The aftermath? 12 people dead.

Mass shootings are becoming a HUGE problem in US History. From the Columbine High School shooting to The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to the the Orlando Night Club shooting to the Las Vegas shooting to the Santa Fe High School shooting to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting to recent Thousand Oaks shooting, there has not been anything done about the gun violence. Nothing has been done in regarding enforcing stricter and better gun control.

It's scary to think about that anyone in the USA; doesn't matter how old or how mentally stable they are, is able to purchase a gun LEGALLY.

There have been mass shootings EVERY month of 2018. This should not be happening.

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Porritt, O. (n.d.). Stop Gun Violence. Retrieved November 17, 2018, from https://www.saatchiart.com/art/New-Media-STOP-GUN-VIOLENCE/692810/4161311/view

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I chose this article because the article is about the stories of loss, love and hope from six firsthand accounts from some of America's worst mass shootings. Each story is from someone who is impacted by the shootings such as a survivor, a parent, a sibling of a victim who was killed.

The article has survivors and family members of victims from six previous mass shootings talk about what they do after each new incident, how they make sense of the country’s response to these shootings, what do they want to see change, how they cope with the intense coverage of the latest incident and the silence when the news cycle suddenly moves on.

Each of the people in the article are affected by some of the mass shootings in US History. They have continued to live their lives and are seeing more mass shootings happening and are seeing that there has been no change in gun control.

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If we all stood up and said, 'enough is enough,' Alex would still be alive.

Finally the last bus came and he wasn't on it. Even if you basically know, you hold on to hope until the very last second.

The person who did this to us, he wanted us to feel afraid. So to be able to have that power back is really freeing for me.

Six firsthand accounts from some of America's worst mass shootings Lois Beckett and Jamiles Lartey

They see the alerts on their phones. They turn on the news. And then, like the rest of us, the survivors of America's previous mass shootings watch the grim details of the latest attack unfold.

This month a gunman killed 25 people at a rural church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, just over a month after 58 people were murdered and more than 500 wounded in Las Vegas, the worst mass shooting in recent US history. The tragedies join a long, somber list of high-casualty killings that dominate the headlines and then gradually fade from public view.

We asked survivors and family members of victims from six previous mass shootings - including some that were, briefly, the deadliest, the worst - what they do after each new incident. How do they make sense of the country's response to these shootings? What do they want to see change? How do they cope with the intense coverage of the latest incident - and the silence when the news cycle suddenly moves on?

Austin Eubanks. Survivor. Columbine high school shooting. Littleton, Colorado. 1999

In the 911 tapes, you can hear art teacher Patti Nielson screaming at Austin Eubanks and his friend Corey DePooter in their high school library, to get "under the table, kids!" The juniors had heard a burst of gunshots earlier but had dismissed it as construction noise. As Nielson screamed, the boys ducked down. Two of their classmates entered the library and opened fire. A few minutes after the shooting stopped, Eubanks saw other students running, and he ran, too, through a library filled with smoke, the fire alarm blaring.

Outside, he called his family from a police car. It was only when his father arrived and jumped over a fence to get to him that his state of shock began to fracture. "I said, 'They killed Corey,' and I just broke down in his arms.'"

Eubanks had been shot in the hand and the knee. In the hospital, he was given his first pain medication. His physical pain wasn't so bad, but the opiate medication had a dramatic impact on his emotional suffering. "It was like somebody put a warm blanket" over him, he says.

He was sent home with a 30-day supply of opiate medication. Within months, he was addicted, manipulating doctors to prescribe him more medication, eventually buying online and on the street, moving on to cocaine and ecstasy and whatever else he could find. His parents saw his behavior changes early, but, knowing little about the signs of addiction, attributed them to the trauma he had been through. It took him 12 years, after racking up multiple arrests for fights, theft and impulsive behavior, and making multiple attempts at recovery, before he finally got sober.

Today, Eubanks is the chief operating officer for a long-term residential treatment program in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and beginning to speak nationally on the opioid epidemic. At the root of America's addiction crisis, he explains, is untreated trauma.

"We have this society that is filled with emotional pain and trauma, and we have people prescribing narcotics that are very effective with treating emotional pain and trauma," he says.

In recovery, more than a decade after Columbine, Eubanks finally went through stages of grief for the friend he lost. About 80% of the clients in recovery he has worked with can identify the trauma at the root of their addiction. It doesn't have to be as dramatic as surviving a mass shooting: painful events in early childhood, like a divorce, can have a deep emotional impact but are often dismissed.

Eubanks has watched the increasing pace of mass shootings with fear. "We're lessening the threshold of how crazy someone needs to be to commit a mass shooting," he says. "Now we had a guy [the Las Vegas shooter]who committed this crime for no other known motive other than notoriety, and that is incredibly scary to me.

"Every time this happens, the ripple effect gets larger," he says. "I don't think we have a five-year or a 10-year solution. I think we're looking at a 25-year solution."

Caren Teves. Mother of Alex Teves. Movie theater shooting. Aurora, Colorado. 2012

Caren Teves and her husband Tom were on vacation in Maui in 2012 when they received a frantic phone call from Amanda Lindgren, their son Alex's girlfriend. Amanda and Alex had been at a movie. There had been a shooting. She didn't know what had happened to him.

For the next 12 hours, the family desperately tried to locate Alex. In between frantic phone calls to the police and different local hospitals, they watched the sensationalistic TV news coverage about the mass shooter who attacked a midnight viewing of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado. Photos of the perpetrator, with his garishly dyed red hair, kept appearing on the screen.

Lindgren would later describe how she had kept standing up in shock as the shooting began, and how Alex had pulled her down and covered her body with his own. He had been killed trying to shield her.

In the days after they learned Alex had been killed, Tom Teves challenged news anchors to report on his son's heroism, and the bravery of other survivors and first responders, instead of trying to delve into the mind of the shooter.

It was an uphill battle. Some TV segments simply cancelled their interviews with the Teves family over their request that the perpetrator's photograph not be displayed during an interview with them. "I wish I had not done that," Caren Teves says, believing now that their principled stance only served to silence them. "I would have still been able to talk about Alex and call them out, whether the picture was up or not."

Since 2012, the family has launched a campaign to prevent media coverage from playing into the perpetrators' craving for fame by spreading the shooters' photographs, focusing on body counts and ranking different shootings against each other.

Over the past few years, the No Notoriety campaign has seen bipartisan progress, with endorsements from law enforcement groups and victims' families, and some journalists pledging to abide by the principles of trying to use shooters' names and images sparingly. Law enforcement officials in Sutherland Springs, Texas, last week announced they would follow a similar approach. "If you notice I use 'shooter' instead of the suspect's name, we do not want to glorify him and what he's done," Freeman Martin, a spokesman for the Texas department of public safety, said last week.

But many media outlets still resist the "No Notoriety" principles, which Erik Wemple of the Washington Post has called "a public service, not some nefarious 'glorification' quest'".

Teves is scathing about the media's refusal to change how they cover shootings. "Their argument boils down to: you're not going to tell us what to do," she says. "It's a moneymaker for them. Sensationalism sells."

Today, she worries that the sheer horror of mass shootings is a barrier to Americans endorsing political change. "A lot of people don't want to grasp it, because it's that awful." But if, after mass shootings 20 years ago, "we all stood up and said, 'enough is enough,' Alex would still be alive. He'd still be here."

Erica Lafferty. Daughter of principal Dawn Hochsprung. Sandy Hook elementary school shooting. Newtown, Connecticut. 2012

Erica Lafferty was barely awake one morning at the beginning of last month when she saw a Facebook alert from a childhood friend who had recently moved to Las Vegas, marking herself "safe." Lafferty called her immediately. The friend had wanted to go to the country music concert the Las Vegas shooter had targeted, but "It was sold out by the time she had tried to get tickets," her friend told her.

For Lafferty, the first hours after a mass shooting are the most excruciating. She knows that family members of the victims of a new attack are waiting, like she once did, for news, and "they're still holding out this little bit of hope" that somehow their loved ones are still alive.

Five years ago, her mother, Dawn Hochsprung, an elementary school principal in Connecticut, had been in a meeting when she heard gunshots. She came out into the school hallway and was immediately shot by a disturbed young man with a military-style rifle who had forced his way inside. Lafferty had to wait until until the early hours of the day after the shooting before she was finally told her mother had been murdered.

After the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, the Obama administration endorsed a slate of gun control reforms, with the biggest push in favor of bipartisan legislation that would expand background check requirements on gun sales.

The congressional vote on the background check legislation "was my biggest moment of hope", and when it narrowly failed to get enough votes in the Senate, "also my biggest letdown".

She was devastated again after Hillary Clinton, whom she had enthusiastically supported, lost the 2016 presidential election. "Gun laws had been this taboo subject in politics for so long, and not only did we have our first woman presidential candidate, this woman was constantly talking about gun violence and how it's plaguing our country and her actual plan to do something about it."

Asked what she thinks accounts for Clinton's loss, she says, "I still don't know. I feel like I lost all faith in humanity after that one."

Lafferty, who now works for advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, says she is comforted by the people who have made the issue a priority, even without being personally impacted by it. "If they can get up and do it out of the kindness of their hearts, I better be able to do it for my mother," she says.

After the mass shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando last year, Lafferty could not function. She lay on her couch, watched the news coverage, and cried. But this year, after Las Vegas, she felt stronger, and immediately began to work to respond to the shooting, and to rally other people to call and email their elected officials and get involved in fighting for tougher gun laws.

"In the wake of the election, my anger is just a lot more intense than it used to be. I don't have time to be sad," she says.

Tina Meins. Daughter of Damian Meins. San Bernardino shooting. San Bernardino, California. 2015

Damian Meins could just as easily not have been in the office that Wednesday afternoon. Retired and working a new job as an inspector with the San Bernardino health department, Meins was expecting to be out in the field until he got last-minute word that he had to come in to the Inland Regional Center for a meeting.

Even still, with his wife battling a brutal case of the flu, he considered staying home before thinking better of it and going in.

These are the types of "what ifs" that rack the minds of people like Tina Meins, Damian's daughter: the small choices and facts of happenstance that place a loved one in the wrong place at precisely the wrong time.

"That was tough to accept," she said. "He shouldn't have even really been there in the first place."

But he was there. According to Damian Meins' co-workers, he had been standing by the Christmas tree at the office holiday party when two people entered the building with semi-automatic rifles and handguns, donning tactical gear and firing off rounds in rapid succession. They managed to kill 16, including Meins, and injure 24 before being gunned down by police in a shootout.

Tina Meins, then 33, remembers showing up with the rest of her family a few hours after the news broke and being hustled off to the reunification center, which was set up a few blocks away from the site of the shooting.

Busload after busload of survivors pulled into the location, each bringing with it a moment of hope followed by a little bit more dread.

"Finally the last bus came and he wasn't on it," Meins says. "It's really weird because you hold on to hope even if you know ..." She pauses. "Even if you basically know, you hold on to hope until the very last second.

"There's obviously the emotional and psychological trauma of trying to deal with the fact that you no longer have a dad. But there's also the logistical and practical side of you that thinks: 'OK well. What does this mean? Financially is my mom going to be able to live in this house?' ... You find a different way to live but it takes a long time for things to even feel OK."

Part of that new life for Meins, her mother and her sister has been as advocates for what she calls commonsense gun control for things like universal background checks on gun purchases nationwide.

"You kind of wonder with every passing shooting, what will be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back. They [Congress] have already had two people in their own ranks shot," Meins says, referring to Steve Scalise and Gabrielle Giffords.

"But I do feel some optimism that things will change eventually. I don't think it's a short path, but I think it'll change eventually."

Brandon Wolf. Survivor. Pulse nightclub shooting. Orlando, Florida. 2016

For Brandon Wolf, ever since he came to Orlando as a young man, the Pulse LGBT nightclub was a refuge, a safe haven. "Pulse was a place where I met people that were like me - that were young and had moved here in search of new things and to find themselves," says Wolf, who was among the hundreds in the crowd the night that a gunman entered the club with an AR-15 and began firing indiscriminately at patrons.

Wolf was in the bathroom getting ready to leave when he heard the first gunshots. He remembers seeing more than a dozen people frantically run into the bathroom and pin themselves back against the corner of the wall.

"A few seconds after this group of people was the smell of gunsmoke ... and you could almost get a hint of blood behind it."

Wolf and his now partner, Eric, made a split-second decision. They locked hands, ran out from the bathroom through the caustic plume of smoke until they saw an exit, then they kept running for several blocks until the panic and shock took over.

"My legs were like cement and I couldn't run any more and I just collapsed on the sidewalk," Wolf says. It struck him that his close friends, Christopher "Drew" Leinonen and Juan Guerrero, were still inside.

After a frantic and sleepless night, Wolf's worst nightmare would be confirmed by law enforcement the day after the shooting. Leinonen and Guerrero were among the 49 killed in what was, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.

Wolf shut down. For days he could barely even make it out of bed. Even as he resumed work, he described living in a deep fog for months. "I was a zombie. I was going through the motions. I was making it happen but it was always on my mind."

It was largely through speaking up and out about his experiences that Wolf was able to start to rebuild a new normal. "Words are my coping mechanism. I use words to heal myself as much as to spread the message to other people."

Wolf says he has lost track of the number of speaking engagements and events he has attended in the wake of the shooting to lobby for gun control, which have included speaking on stage at the Democratic national convention and addressing January's Women's March in Washington DC.

And as for how he feels in crowded places like nightclubs now: "I think it's different for everyone, but I feel powerful. I feel emboldened to be able to go into a public space and be myself and not be afraid because, ultimately, that's what he wanted," Wolf said. "The person who did this to us, he wanted us to feel afraid. He wanted us to feel small, and so to be able to have that power back is really freeing for me."

Malcolm Graham. Brother of Cynthia Graham. Mother Emanuel AME church shooting. Charleston, South Carolina. 2015

The Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina is practically part of Malcolm Graham's DNA. He was baptized there, he sang in the youth choir as a young man and watched a number of relatives get married there, too.

"Emanuel was a part of my foundation and our foundation as a family. That was the family church," Graham says.

So it was no surprise to him when he discovered that his sister, Cynthia Graham Hurd, was one of the nine people killed at Bible study when a gunman pulled out a pistol and began firing during a round of prayer.

As is so often the case for the families of victims, Graham first learned about the shooting the way many Americans do: from the news.

"I called Cynthia because she was well known in the community and she attended Emanuel so she was my source of information to find out what's going on down there.

"She didn't answer. Then an hour went by and I started getting concerned."

Graham, then living in Charlotte, North Carolina, eventually got word from a niece that his sister was missing and that the family believed she had been at the Bible study. Malcolm, who knew a number of officials in Charleston law enforcement, learned from police that she had been killed before official word was released.

"It was probably the most intense two weeks of my life because I lost my sister in a very public way, dealing with internal family issues and then feeling the obligation to talk about it publicly," says Malcolm Graham.

A veteran politician who had spent 16 years in elected office through 2014, Graham took on something of a spokesperson role for his family as questions from the press became a major part of their lives through the immediate aftermath and the two trials in which the shooter was found guilty and sentenced to death.

"That was my therapy, if I can use that analogy," Graham says. "She would want me to get out and and stand up for her and speak out for her so that's just what I did."

In 2016, fueled in part by his sense of loss over his sister, Graham launched an unsuccessful bid for a US congressional seat. He hoped to use that position to advocate for "commonsense gun laws" and for families like his who have been forever changed by this type of violence. "It's a strange fraternity to belong to, of people who've been wronged in such a public way," Graham says.

"When I saw Las Vegas and Orlando I could relate to how the families felt. I could relate to how the community was hurting. I could relate to people not understanding and asking the question why," Graham says.

"It's awful for any community to have to bear that name: Charleston strong. Orlando strong. Las Vegas Strong."
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Stories of loss, love and hope: six firsthand accounts from some of America's worst mass shootings

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For survivors and family members of victims from Columbine, Newtown, Orlando and elsewhere, each new massacre is a reminder of inaction on gun control

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These are the victims of the Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999.
Young, M. (2018, April 10). Columbine High School Massacre. Retrieved November 17, 2018, from https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/columbine-high-school-survivor-says-teachers-should-have-the-right-to-be-armed/news-story/0e5e6327b1273ff2f1542c564f8e42c8

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I chose this article because it shows statistics on each of the mass shootings from the Sandy Hook shooting in December 2012 to the Parkland shooting in February 2018.

"After Sandy Hook, we said never again. And then we let 1,898 mass shootings happen" (German Lopez & Kavya Sukumar, 2018). The US has the weakest gun laws in the developed world.

How many more shootings, how many more lives do we have to lose to start enforcing stricter gun control.

There shouldn’t be that big of a number about mass shooting in the US or ever.

Canada has a a strict gun law and we've only had some mass shootings. But the US has had a mass shootings every month and every week in the same month.

This needs to stop.

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These are the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14, 2012.
Staff, C. (2017, December 14). Sandy Hook Victims. Retrieved November 17, 2018, from https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/us/sandy-hook-newtown-shooting-victims-profiles/index.html

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I found this article on https://www.gunviolencearchive.org The website: Gun Violence Archive is a not for profit corporation formed in 2013 to provide free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States.

I chose this article because it has the numbers of deaths, ages of people who died, how many injured people, how many shootings the US has had etc. This website collects and checks for accuracy, comprehensive information about gun-related violence in the U.S. and then they post it online.

This is a scary thing to think about. A parent should not have to worry about sending their child off to school or to a public place and for them to not come home. No parent should EVER have to worry about this.

Enough is enough. How many more shootings, how many more lives do we have to lose in order for the government to start enforcing stricter gun control.

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These are the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting on June 12, 2016.
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Wake up America. Change your gun laws. Enforce stricter gun control. 

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I found this post on Twitter. I chose this tweet because it talks about the reality of gun violence, the mass shootings in the USA.

"Some of the victims of tonight's mass shooting in Thousand Oaks are also survivors of last year's Las Vegas massacre. Gun violence in our country is so frequent that people are becoming survivors of MULTIPLE mass shooting incidents. That is COMPLETELY unacceptable." (Bawbby. @toddsire_, 2018)

It’s scary that this is the reality in the US. That this is the reality of the people who were survivors of last year’s Las Vegas shooting to be survivors of the Thousand Oaks shootings and survivors of last year’s Las Vegas shooting to be victims of the Thousand Oaks shootings. They shouldn't be subjected to this violence ONCE, much less TWICE. And in a span of 13 months.

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I chose this article because it talks about the Thousand Oaks mass shootings but it also talks about the other mass shooting that the USA has had.

It talks about 4 of the biggest mass shooting in 5 decades that happened in 2018. All these shootings and Trump and the government are not doing anything about it.

The shooting that took place Wednesday night in Thousand Oaks at the Borderline Bar and Grill, which left 13 people dead, including the gunman became the 307th mass shooting on the 311th day of the year.

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When the thunder of gunfire broke through the revelry of a country music dance hall packed with young people kicking back on "college night," Thousand Oaks, California, added its name to a dark roster: The site of the 307th mass shooting in the U.S. this year.

And an even grimmer statistic was marked: The 307th mass shooting took place on the 311th day of the year - an average of a deadly incident almost every day so far this year.

The Wednesday night massacre at the Borderline Bar and Grill, which left 13 people dead, including the gunman, became the nation's latest mass shooting, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit organization that provides online public access to information about gun-related violence.

In all, 328 people died in those incidents, and 1,251 were injured, according to the data. The numbers include incidents in which four or more people were shot or killed, not including the shooters, according to the archive.

The rampage also came during three weeks of hate and terror that have jolted the country: a bloodbath at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 elderly people dead and a series of 16 pipe bombs mailed to prominent Democrats, CNN and critics of President Donald Trump.

The incident was also the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in 2018 since 17 classmates and teachers were gunned down at a Parkland, Florida, school on Valentine's Day.

That shooting galvanized a student-led anti-gun movement that turned young people into activists. Just 24 hours before the spree in Thousand Oaks, Parkland survivors had celebrated the toppling of some NRA-backed candidates in Tuesday's midterm elections.

Thursday morning, one of those students, Cameron Kasky, 17, lamented the pain of witnessing more bloodshed:

"The Mayor of Thousand Oaks is completely right," Kasky tweeted. "No community is truly safe from these mass shootings. We've seen this far too many times. How many anomalies are there going to be? How many times are we going to here (hear) "nobody would've thought it would happen here?"

2018 has seen several high-profile mass shootings:

Five people were gunned down in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 28.

Ten were fatally shot at Santa Fe High School on May 18.

Four people killed at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 22.

California's previous worst 2018 mass shooting came on Sept. 12, when a Bakersfield man fatally shot five, including his wife, before killing himself.

More: 'Horrific scene': Sheriff's sergeant, 11 others dead in Thousand Oaks, California, bar shooting

Also: Some Thousand Oaks victims survived mass shooting in Las Vegas, reports say

Related: 'He died a hero': Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus among those killed in bar shooting

Here is a look at other shooting sprees in the U.S.:

* Oct. 1, 2017: Stephen Paddock, 64, fired more than 1,000 rounds from a 32nd-floor suite at a nearby hotel on concertgoers at the Route 81 Harvest Music Festival, killing 58 people and leaving hundreds injured. Paddock was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His motive remains unknown.

* June 12, 2016: Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, kills 49 people and wounds 58 others at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that was hosting a Latin night. Mateen was killed by police. It was the deadliest terror attack in the U.S. since 9/11 and at the time was the worst mass shooting in the nation by a single gunman.

* April 16, 2007: Seung Hui Cho, a 23-year-old student, went on a shooting spree at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, killing 32 people, before killing himself.

* Dec. 14, 2012: Adam Lanza, 20, gunned down 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before killing himself.

* Oct. 16, 1991: George Hennard, 35, crashed his pickup through the wall of Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. He shot and killed 23 people before committing suicide.

* July 18, 1984: James Huberty, 41, gunned down 21 adults and children at a McDonald's in San Ysidro, California, before being killed by police.

* Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, a former U.S. Marine, shot and killed 16 people from a university tower at the University of Texas in Austin before being shot by police.

* Aug. 20, 1986: A part-time mail carrier, Patrick Henry Sherrill, shot and killed 14 postal workers in Edmund, Oklahoma, before killing himself.

* Dec. 2, 2015: Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in Redlands, California, opened fire at a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and holiday party, killing 14 people and injuring 22 in a matter of minutes. Farook, an American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, worked at the health department. Malik had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook post before the shooting.

* Nov. 5, 2009: U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan fatally shot 13 people and injured 30 others at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas. Hasan, a psychiatrist, appeared to have been radicalized by an Islamic cleric. He was convicted and sentenced to death.

* Sept. 16, 2013: Gunman Aaron Alexis, 34, fatally shot 12 people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. He was later killed by police.

* July 20, 2012: James Holmes gunned down 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater. Last year he was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder and sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years without parole.

* Oct. 1, 2015: Christopher Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old student at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Oregon, shot an assistant professor and eight students in a classroom. After a shootout with police, he committed suicide.

* June 18, 2015: A gunman opened fire at a weekly Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, including pastor Clementa Pinckney; a 10th victim survived. The morning after the attack, police arrested a suspect, Dylann Roof, 21, who said he wanted to start a race war. In December 2016, Roof was convicted of 33 federal hate crimes charges, and in January he was sentenced to death.

* July 16, 2015: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The first was a drive-by shooting at a recruiting center; the second was at a U.S. Navy Reserve center. Four Marines and a Navy sailor died; a Marine recruit officer and a police offer were wounded. Abdulazeez was killed by police in a gunfight.

* Nov. 27, 2015: A gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing a police officer and two civilians and injuring nine others. Robert Lewis Dear was taken into custody after a five-hour standoff and charged with first-degree murder.

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Thousand Oaks makes 307 mass shootings in 311 days

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CLOSE When the thunder of gunfire broke through the revelry of a country music dance hall packed with young people kicking back on "college night," Thousand Oaks, California, added its name to a dark roster: The site of the 307th mass shooting in the U.S. this year.

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These are the victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting on May 18, 2018.
Santa Fe High School Shooting Victims. (2018, May 20). Retrieved November 17, 2018, from https://abc13.com/santa-fe-high-school-shooting-victims-heres-what-we-know/3491480/

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I found this article on https://www.thesun.co.uk

I chose this article because it talks about how many mass shootings there have been and how many people have been shot dead in 2018. The Gun Violence Archive has recorded a total of 48,959 gun violence incidents so far this year, leading to 12,476 deaths and 24,236 injuries.

The article lists the gun attacks that happened so far in 2018 from January 12, 2018 to the recent mass shooing on November 8, 2018.

The numbers that are shown are so horrible to see and so horrible to know that this is a reality for people who live in the US.

Change needs to happen so this won’t continue to be their reality. They shouldn't have to have their lives impacted by the shootings every month.

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THE Thousand Oaks shooting massacre was the 307th mass shooting in the US this year, according to researchers.

Here we look at America's bloody toll of violence so far in 2018.

How many mass shootings have there been in the US in 2018?

There is no widely accepted definition of a mass shooting.

A 2013 report from the Congressional Research Service described mass shootings as those in which gunmen "select victims somewhat indiscriminately" and kill four or more people in the same incident.

That measure would exclude gang shootings and domestic incidents in which a gunman kills several family members.

The not-for-profit group Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as any in which four or more people are shot, including those who are injured but survive, and not including the shooter.

By this measure it records 154 mass shootings in the USA in the first 178 days of the year.

The worst in terms of casualties was the Valentine's Day school massacre in Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 died and another 17 were hurt.

The Gun Violence Archive has recorded a total of 48,959 gun violence incidents so far this year, leading to 12,476 deaths and 24,236 injuries.

What are the worst mass shootings in America in 2018?

These are just some of the gun attacks so far in 2018:

January 12: Children aged five and eight shot dead, allegedly by their step-brother, who is also said to have wounded their mum before carjacking a passing vehicle, killing the driver and wounding the passenger, in Nashville, Tennessee.

January 23: Schoolgirl Bailey Holt and classmate Preston Cope, both 15, shot dead and 14 wounded by a teenage shooter at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky.

January 28: Three mass shootings on the same day leave 11 dead. Two were killed and three wounded by an assailant who opened fire outside a bar in Indianapolis, Indiana. Four men were shot dead in a house in Reading, Pennsylvania. And two men and two women were murdered at a car wash in Melcroft, Pennsylvania. The gunman was shot dead by cops.

February 10: Two pensioners were among four people shot dead in a "horrific murder spree" by a gunman who then shot himself in Painstville, Kentucky.

February 11: Three women were shot dead and three police officers injured during a 14-hour standoff with a barricaded gunman who then shot himself in Detroit, Michigan.

February 14: Ex-pupil shot dead 14 teenagers and three staff at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida. Another 17 victims were hurt in the eighth deadliest shooting in modern US history.

February 17: One dead and seven wounded in suspected gang shooting in Kansas City, Kansas.

February 26: Gunman George Davis shot dead his ex-girlfriend and her friend and bystanders in a petrol station rampage in Detroit, Michigan. Davis, who had also murdered his cousin nearby, shot himself after a police chase.

March 21: Five including a policeman wounded at a barber shop in San Francisco, California. The gunman was hit by return fire and died later.

April 22: Four people killed and three hurt in Waffle House shooting in Antioch, Tennessee. Naked gun maniac Travis Reinking was tackled by an injured victim as he sprayed diners with an AR-15 rifle.

April 25: Three killed and one wounded at a house in St Louis, Missouri.

May 2: One man killed and four hurt by drive-by gunman who sprayed 25 bullets outside an apartment block in Brooklyn, New York.

May 6: Two 18-year-olds shot dead and four friends wounded while travelling in the same car. Shots were fired from another car that pulled alongside in Memphis, Tennessee.

May 13: Five dead and four wounded in two separate mass shootings on the same day in California. A five-year-old girl and her parents were shot dead at a Mother's Day gathering in Stockton. In South Los Angeles, two men were killed and two teens hurt in a drive-by attack.

May 16: Justin Painter killed his three children, wounded his ex-wife and murdered her new boyfriend before turning the gun on himself in a domestic bloodbath in Ponder, Texas.

May 18: Eight pupils and two teachers shot dead and 13 people injured in a massacre at Santa Fe High school in Texas. Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, is said to have shouted "surprise" as he burst into a class armed with his dad's shotgun.

May 20: One dead and seven injured in a nightclub shooting in Hazlehurst, Mississippi.

May 31: A mum and two daughters aged 12 and 14 shot dead in Timmonsville, South Carolina. A girl, eight, and her father were also shot but survived. The attacker was not related to the family, according to reports.

June 2: One victim killed and six more wounded in a suspected gang shooting in Omaha, Nebraska.

June 10: Seven people hurt in suspected gang shooting during a child's birthday party in Aurora, Illinois.

June 11: Four children aged one to 11 murdered by a gunman who then shot himself after a day-long stand-off with police in Orlando, Florida. One officer was left in a critical condition.

June 17: A boy of 13 was among 17 injured when three gunmen opened fire at a community festival in Trenton, New Jersey. One gunman was shot dead by cops.

June 18: Two killed and four injured when a party spilled into violence near a university campus in Chicago, Illinois. Victim Erin Casey, 17, was mistaken for dead and covered with a sheet while still breathing, and later died in hospital.

June 24: One killed and six wounded in a birthday party shooting at a Latin dance studio in Sanford, North Carolina.

June 28: Five staff shot dead and an unknown number injured in a massacre at the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.

July 1: Four people are shot dead in what local media report as an apparent triple murder suicide.

July 9: A 41-year-old woman and her three children, a three, four and six-year-old are found shot dead in their home in Delaware. Her husband, a 43-year-old man, is also found dead at the property with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

July 27: Five people are killed in an apparent murder-suicide at a nursing home and a nearby residential property in Robstown, Texas.

July 30: Four people, including a five-year-old child, are found dead with gunshot wounds in an apartment in Astoria, New York.

August 12: Three children, aged four, two and an infant, were shot dead by their father in Clearlake, California in an apparent murder suicide. The father was found in the driveway of the property with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Another child, a five year old, received a gunshot wound to the chest and recovered in hospital.

August 26: Two gamers are shot dead during a live stream of the Madden NFL Championship '19 in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter, named David Katz, then turned the gun on himself at the scene.

September 6: four people are shot dead, including the gunman, in the heart of central Cincinnati, close to Fountain Square. At least two other people were wounded.

October 28: 11 people were killed after a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh during the Sabbath prayer.

November 8: 12 people were killed including a police officer, after a gunman started shooting people at Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, California.

Have there been more mass shootings in 2018 than previous years?

The toll for the first half of this year is roughly the same as in 2017.

Last year saw a total of 346 mass shootings as defined by the Gun Violence Archive.

They included the Sutherland Springs church shooting that killed 26 and the Las Vegas gun massacre in which 58 died and 851 were hurt.

That was the deadliest shooting in modern American history.

In 2016 there were 382 mass shootings and in 2015 there were 335.

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How many mass shootings have there been in America so far in 2018?

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THE Thousand Oaks shooting massacre was the 307th mass shooting in the US this year, according to researchers. Here we look at America's bloody toll of violence so far in 2018. There is no widely accepted definition of a mass shooting.

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These are the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018.
Swift, T. (2018, February 15). Who were the victims of the Parkland school shooting?Retrieved November 17, 2018, from https://www.ksat.com/news/who-were-the-victims-of-the-parkland-school-shooting

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I chose this website https://marchforourlives.com
because it’s a great movement that the Parkland survivors have created. Alfonso Calderon, Sarah Chadwick, Jaclyn Corin, Emma González, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky and Alex Wind are activist. They are using their voice to make a difference to help enforce stricter gun control.

They are using their voices by telling their stories on how their lives were changed on February 14 2018.  "The fact is that gun violence is still prevalent in our society. We’re going to be fighting for this until it’s fixed.” (Emma González, 2018).

They are making a huge impact on everyone’s lives with this movement, so many people are part of this movement.

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We held over 450 marches in 2022 worldwide, leading to 20+ state laws passed and the first federal legislation on gun violence prevention in the past 30 years. Stay involved and keep up the fight. We marched in 450+ locations worldwide on June 11, 2022. Now we need you to stay involved.

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These are the survivors of the Parkland shooting and activists who started the March For Our Lives movement.
Clemens, D. (2018, March 22). Parkland survivors appear on Time magazine cover. Retrieved November 17, 2018, from https://abc11.com/politics/parkland-survivors-featured-on-cover-of-time-magazine/3247080/

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I found this photo on Twitter. I chose this photo because this is the reality. There have been 307 shootings in 311 days when there are only 365 days in a YEAR!

These numbers should wake Trump and the government up to start enforcing stricter gun control. There have been mass shootings, happening every month in 2018. There have been mass shootings, happening every other week.

When nothing is happening when it comes to gun control, so many innocent lives of children, to students to females to males are being taken from us.

This link https://www.thisisinsider.com/what-trump-tweeted-after-mass-shooting-president-2018-5 has Trump's tweets when a shooting has happened. Since the beginning of Trump's precidency, there have been 62 mass shootings. He has tweeted only 9 TIMES out of the 62 shootings that happened from 2017 to 2018 (today) since he became president in January 20, 2017.

He does not care. He tweeted 9 times ONLY about the shootings that had more causualties. He does not care about the other lives that were taken away. He only wants to acknowledge the shootings where the death rate was high.

With what’s happening in the US, all shootings no matter how low or high the casualty are should ALWAYS be acknowledged. He is the President of the United States. He was voted to make a change.

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Trumps tweets of the shooting that happened.

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Trumps tweets of the shooting that happened.

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You can see that he only tweeted abut the shootings with the most casualties.
Source: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

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I found this article on https://www.cnn.com
I chose this article because it talks about the deadliest mass shootings in US History from 1949 to present (2018).

It talks about what mass shooting, where it was, who was involved and if the shooter was killed or committed suicide during the horrible incident.

The information about the mass shootings are from each year that they are classified as the deadliest mass shootings in US History. They should have enforced stricter gun control when the first few mass shootings happened.

But even today when the Thousand Oaks shooting being the 307 mass shootings in 311 days of 2018, they still have not done anything to the gun law.

Having 307 mass shootings in 311 days should have been a red flag that change needs to be made.

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deadliest mass shootings in us history fast facts - cnn

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Deadliest Mass Shootings in Modern US History Fast Facts

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Read CNN's Fast Facts about mass shootings in US history from 1949 to the present.

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Since the Columbine High School that happened in 1999 there have been the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in 2012, the Santa Fe High School shooting in 2018 and now the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. There has been nothing done to gun control in the US. The fact that he tweeted this is so frustrating.
Source: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

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This video is from the NowThis Facebook account. I chose this video because it talks about the recent shooting in Thousand Oaks, USA. Susan Orfanos son survived the Las Vegas shooting then a year after her son died in the Thousand Oaks shooting. "I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts. I want gun control." (Susan Orfanos, 2018).

This is the 307 mass shootings in 311 days. There is only 365 days in a YEAR!

No amount of thoughts, no amount of prayers will bring back the lives lost in the mass shootings.

What the US needs to do is enforcing stricter gun control. This will help or at least reduce the shootings that are happening every month.

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‘I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts. I want gun control.’ — This woman lost her son in the Thousand Oaks shooting a year after he survived the horrific shooting in Las Vegas

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These are the victims of the Borderline Bar and Grill shooting on November 7 2018.
Thomas, T. (2018, November 10). National Las Vegas shooting survivors among victims in Thousand Oaks massacre. Retrieved November 17, 2018, from https://www.wjtv.com/national/las-vegas-shooting-survivors-among-victims-in-thousand-oaks-massacre/1586560683