Sentence examples for gun atrocity from inspiring English sources

AS AMERICANS digest the news of another gun atrocity, a mall shooting in Nebraska on December 5th, they cannot be blamed for thinking that guns are in too ready supply.

Despite the lower tally, those tragedies seemed to receive more media attention, in part because of the grossly mismatched threshold for what constitutes a gun atrocity on each continent.

In the past eight years the US has been repeatedly shocked by violent gun atrocities in which multiple people have been shot dead by lone gunmen.

Even in districts that bear the scars of gun atrocities, politicians fear that emotional pleas from victims of gun violence will make the electorate queasy.

The government decided to do nothing to stop gun atrocities because the political power of obsessive gun zealots with ignorant, hallucinatory political worldviews outweighed the reasonable public consensus that an overabundance of easily obtained guns has created a serious threat to Americans' public safety.

While there is no agreed-upon definition of what constitutes a "mass shooting" and what constitutes merely another deadly entry on the police blotter, there is little doubt that the frequency of large-scale gun atrocities has increased in the past decade.

And in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre, it is evident that we need action to better protect the innocent from becoming future victims of gun-related atrocities.

Even in a year in which our most prominent artists are exploring their creative limits – Frank Ocean's week-long carpentry live stream; Beyonce's interpretation of the atrocities of gun crime aired on primetime TV – the Sri Lankan rapper's originality remains unmatched.

On the subject of mass shootings on school campuses, Cruz blamed Democrats who have lobbied for gun control in response to the atrocities.

The crossovers are evident in a string of Islamist-inspired terror atrocities from Mohamed Merah's gun attacks in south-western France in 2012, to Nemmouche, to the January attacks in Paris by the Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly.

To America, it is yet another horrific mass gun shooting in a string of such atrocities in recent years.