Stunning NY Times Front Page Lists 15 Mass Shootings in Which ‘Authorities Said the Gunman Was Able to Obtain the Weapon Legally’

Ken MeyerMay 29th, 2022, 1:17 pm
 
The sign on the west side of the New York Times building at 620 Eighth Ave. April 28, 2016 in New York.

Photo by Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images.

The New York Times made an attention-getting statement about gun ownership by pointing out how many times America has witnessed a mass casualty event after the perpetrator was able to legally acquire their weapon.

This weekend’s edition of the Sunday Review section featured a front page with minimalistic but grim reminder of the shootings America has seen over the years, even before 19 children and 2 adults were shot dead in Uvalde, Texas last week. The commonality between all these events was blatantly obvious in that they all had the same headline with the same point: “Authorities said the gunman was able to obtain the weapon[s] legally.”

The Times’ list makes reference to the Buffalo supermarket shooting, the Parkland massacre, the Pulse nightclub shooting, and the El Paso shooting, among numerous others. The statement follows a similar strategy to what The Onion did last week when the satirical news website devoted their entire website to reminding the country of America’s failure to act against gun violence after mass shootings.

The Times’ print edition wound up generating plenty of buzz:

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