Mass Murders Are Not “Tragedies”: Finding a New Language to Combat Gun Violence

Jill Silos, Ph.D.
Nov 7 · 6 min read

Mass shootings are often described as “tragedies.” When former First Lady Michelle Obama discussed in her recent autobiography the 2012 murder of 20 children and six of their educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, she wrote, “Usually, work was work and home was home, but for us, as for many people, the tragedy in Newtown…

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