Mother Jones has offered the collage below of issues surrounding gun violence in the US --
151 Victims of Mass Shootings in 2012: Here Are Their Stories
Bearing witness to the worst year of gun rampages in modern US history.
| Fri Dec. 21, 2012
The media coverage tends to linger on the killers. But as the nation mourns the excruciating losses in Newtown—and finally begins to confront an epidemic of mass shootings amid the worst year for them in modern US history—it is equally important to bear witness to the victims. What follows are portraits of 151 people physically wounded or killed in the rampages of 2012. In addition to the victims of this year's seven mass shootings, we've included the victims of similar but less lethal rampages in a Portland shopping mall, a Milwaukee spa, and a Cleveland high school.
The total number of lives devastated by these attacks far exceeds 151, of course, starting with survivors who narrowly escaped physical harm, such as the unidentified six-year-old girl who played dead and walked out of Sandy Hook Elementary School against all odds. Mother Jones has only included photos of those injured and killed that were shared publicly by the families or survivors themselves, or for which we were granted specific permission. For essential context and findings from our in-depth investigation, also see our guide to mass shootings in America.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-victims-2012
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Adam
Lanza killed 26 people, then himself, in a mass
shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday. The tragedy has
reinvigorated the debate over gun violence in America. Here's some information
to help you try to begin to make sense of all of it:
Nearly
a quarter-million Americans were killed in fatal shootings between 2003 and
2010.
Nancy
Lanza, the shooter's mother, was his first victim. Newtown residents
remember her as "wonderful, beautiful, classy."
We
produced a detailed guide to mass shootings in America and a series of charts that illustrate the issue.
Gun
manufacturers have some crazy ads.
After
Newtown, sales of body armor for children—including armored
Disney Princess backpacks—have soared.
Armed
civilians aren't very good at stopping mass shootings. [READ MORE]
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