"Dawn Reinfeld moved to Colorado 30 years ago to attend college in the bucolic town of Boulder. Enchanted by the state’s wide-open spaces, she stayed. But, in the ensuing decades, dark events have clouded her view of her adopted home. The 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. The 2012 massacre at the Aurora movie theater. On Wednesday, … [Read more...]
Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history
Tiroteos masivos en EEUU: ¿Un mal crónico? – Mass shootings in the US: A chronic disease?
"The COVID-19 pandemic apparently forced a truce and during 2020, mass shootings fell in the United States. But apparently that form of violence is back. In less than a week , two were registered." The Violence Project co-founder James Densley commented on the "era of mass shootings" in this article by El Político. The original article is in … [Read more...]
America Can End its Mass Shootings By Treating Violent Attacks like a Contagious Virus
CJ Werleman reports on the third mass shooting in a week in America in Boulder, Colorado, and explores how the country could start to stop such events happening with alarming frequency. He spoke to The Violence Project's co-founder James Densley about risk factors to mass shootings and social contagion. Read the full article here Author: CJ … [Read more...]
Why mass shootings stopped in 2020 — and why they are now roaring back
Mass shootings, which had become far less frequent in 2020, have come roaring back. On Monday, a gunman opened fire at a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., killing 10. And this comes on the heels of the Atlanta spa attacks last week that killed eight. We’ve been studying mass shootings, defined as four or more people shot and killed in a public … [Read more...]
First Atlanta, then Boulder: Two mass shootings in a week.
"The deadly shooting in Boulder, Colo. on Monday, where 10 people were killed, including a police officer, was the second mass shooting in the United States in less than a week." The two recent mass shootings were the first since March 2020, despite rises in other types of gun violence. Read the Article Here Authors: Azi Paybarah and Maria … [Read more...]