Most Shootings with Four Victims Invisible Outside their Communities | Building Background Knowledge

In a sobering and precient article by the New York Times in May 22, 2016, "A Drumbeat of Multiple Shootings,but America Isn’t Listening", authors Sharon Lafranier, Daniella Porat and Agustin Armendariz expose a silent epidemic of multi-victim shootings.

These acts of violence - because they perpetrated largely on poor, minority victims - receive no national press, no presidential statments, no prolonged anger. As a result, the true scale of the gun violence epidemic is largely misunderstood.

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