Sentence examples for large scale shootings from inspiring English sources

Indeed, one might argue the grinding epidemic of large scale shootings in America is actually more haphazard and thus dangerous for the average citizen than headline-grabbing rampages.

After all, while we can be shockingly blasé about many large scale shootings, as Jaclyn Schildkraut, an expert on media coverage of mass shootings at the State University of New York in Oswego, recently told VICE, Americans tend to consider children the ultimate "worthy victims".

The three-judge panel noted that the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting in December 2012 occurred when 154 rounds were fired in less than five minutes, killing 20 children and six adults and renewing a nationwide discussion on the role of guns in America and how to diminish the threat of large-scale shootings.

That means more Americans have died in large-scale shootings this year than died in combat in the Afghanistan conflict in all of 2015.

Unveiling the government's new response strategy Tuesday, Cazeneuve said that emergencies like terror attacks, hostage situations or large-scale shootings would now be managed by the first unit to reach the scene.

It's certainly a serious crime," says James Alan Fox, an expert on mass shootings at Northeastern University who remains a bit dubious about referring to these events as "mass shootings" rather than something like "large-scale shootings" to avoid confusion with the old, narrower definition.

Combined with the 29 lives claimed by large-scale shootings in recent weeks—a toll more than four times as high as the number of all gun deaths in Japan in 2014 that means America's already hit 115 casualties this year.

Nowhere but America do horrific large-scale mass shootings happen with this degree of regularity," he said.

Large scale demonstrations by the Buddhist majority erupted in response to the government shootings of nine Buddhists in Huế who were protesting against a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag during Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha.

In this work we propose a new hybrid global method, based on the combination of an evolutionary search strategy with a local multiple-shooting approach, which offers a reliable and efficient alternative for the solution of large scale parameter estimation problems.

"Alyse Rosner: Large Scale Work".