One deadly mass shooting after another in a violent January -- & attacks barely registered nationally

One deadly mass shooting after another in a violent January — and attacks barely registered nationally

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-mass-shootings-deadliest-january-20190201-story.html


A 21-year-old gunman walked into a Florida bank, ordered all five women inside to lie on the ground, and then executed them.

But the devastating attack — a tragedy that might have once spawned days of news coverage and a waterfall of “thoughts and prayers” posts on social media — barely registered on a national level. In the wake of the Jan. 23 shooting, major cable news outlets including CNN, Fox News and MSNBC devoted a combined 20 minutes of coverage to the tragic incident.

The next day in Pennsylvania, an assailant shot and killed his ex-girlfriend after gunning down a pair of strangers who attempted to intervene. Meanwhile, in Georgia, a shooter killed four people and injured another. Two days later a 21-year-old admitted to fatally shooting his parents in their Louisiana home before he gunned down his girlfriend, her 17-year-old brother and their father.

The bloodshed contributed to the month being the deadliest January for mass shootings since the Gun Violence Archives first started tracking gun-related violence in 2013. A total of 27 mass shootings – defined as an attack where four or more people are shot or killed – were recorded, leading to 44 fatalities, according to the nonprofit’s records. The victim count is about double the fatalities registered in January 2018’s mass shootings — 23.