Your weekend long reads 🗞️
Good morning, friends of The Short List! It's John, and I hope the weekend presents you with a host of great options.
The recent pair of mass shootings in the Atlanta area and in Boulder, Colorado, naturally evoked a special kind of horror – one that many of us hadn't experienced in a while. While many forms of gun violence increased during the pandemic – gang violence, domestic incidents, retaliatory violence where perpetrators knew the victims – the number of shootings in public was the lowest it has been in a decade, according to the AP/Paste BN/Northeastern University Mass Killing database.
The two deadly killings in quick succession jolted us to – once again –examine these tragedies: what causes them, how they affect us, and what we can do about them.
- For the COVID pandemic we wear masks. For the pandemic of gun violence, what do we do?
- The 'most dangerous call': How police strategy in mass shootings has evolved over the years
- Family said Colorado suspect had 'mental illness.' Experts say that's rarely the cause of mass shootings
We invite you to check out more long reads below. Let's hope next week brings better news.