mass shooting

[ mas shoot-ing ]

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noun

a single incident involving the shooting with one or more firearms of a number of people, but more than two and typically a large number, especially when the victims are random:
There's news of a mass shooting at the stadium, with two fatalities and 25 injured.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mass shooting¹

First recorded in 1920–25

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That’s a deeply concerning connection, especially considering how hard mass shooting violence has been to curb.

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In 2018, after a deadly mass shooting in Thousand Oaks and wildfires that ravaged parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, the Rams hosted first responders at a “Monday Night Football” game against the Kansas City Chiefs at the Coliseum.

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A refresher on how we got here: In 2017, the New York Times Editorial Board published a piece condemning “heated political rhetoric” in the aftermath of a mass shooting, after gunman James Hodgkinson, a left-wing activist, fired on numerous Republican congressmen and aides during baseball in Virginia, wounding Rep. Steve Scalise.

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He used two examples of the kinds of cases where he would consider it, both mass shootings — the 2012 shooting of 26 people, including 20 children, in Sandy Hook, Conn., and the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip in which a gunman killed 60 people and wounded more than 400.

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None of the victory-lap blondes die, but they do witness a mass shooting on the way out of the resort.

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