The shootings garnered massive media attention and sparked a national debate on gun violence.
For sure, demonstrations, shootings and massive repression brought a picture of chaos and revolution to Tehran and had left Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's Peacock Throne tottering.
Earthquakes, the massive San Diego fires, the shootings in Mumbai, the situation in Iran, and even Michael Jackson's death.
"Massive Uptick in NYC Shootings," screamed a Post headline last May, just one of many tabloid missives decrying a return to the bad old days of graffiti, grifters, gun violence, and muggings.
"Lots of little things went wrong at trial," she says, "but the massive thing was the Cumbria shootings.
I have worked in many communities traumatized by all sorts of shocks, from massive job layoffs to mass shootings.
Obama's ascent coincided with a widening in the racial discrepancy between black and white America in wealth, a deepening of school segregation and he has presided over a massive resurgence of black activism around police shootings.
Vigilant citizens can peruse sections like "America from a Different Perspective," which derides the massive increases in the U.S. prison population, school shootings and obesity.
From earthquakes, to the massive fires in San Diego (in 2007), to the Mumbai shootings, to the situation in Iran, this is the future of information population, like it or not.
