Over the past decades, the United States has faced more and more mass shootings that are neither criminal competition nor family violence: Columbine, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Newtown, the Charleston, S.C., Emanuel AME Church, the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and the one this year that sparked a protest movement: Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla. Today it is Santa Fe High School, southeast of Houston.
More are surely coming. As Erica Chenoweth explained here at TMC in 2015, both mass shootings and terrorist attacks tend to lead to copycat attacks.
In response to the latest, we are updating our roundup of political science insights into subjects relevant to these shootings, including our post-Parkland coverage. CONT.
E.J. Graff, Monkey Cage