The Onion has again published the headline: 'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.' The satirical site has modified and run the story following 21 mass shootings since 2014.
It always quotes a fictional resident of that state lamenting a tragedy they describe as inevitable:
"This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," the person says."It's a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn't anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that's what they really wanted."
The article, which has no identifiable author, always notes that such feelings are shared"by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world's deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations."
"At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as 'helpless,'" Tuesday's version — like its predecessors — concludes.listing every version of the piece from over the years.
"When I wrote this headline, I had no idea it would be applied to the high school a mile from my house,"Dave Cullen, a journalist who has covered mass shootings for years and wrote the
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