Less than a week after six people were killed in the Kalamazoo shootings, three more people were killed and fourteen injured in Hesston, Kansas.
President Obama addressed the Kansas shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, requesting that the media cover incidents of mass shootings as a means of bringing more awareness to these kinds of issues. He stated, "Once a week we have these shootings, and it doesn't dominate the news. And that's got to change... We cannot become numb to this. As long as I hold this office I'm going to keep on bringing this up, even if it's not getting the attention that it should" (USA).
Obama plans to speak out on every mass shooting event and pledges to "politicize" the issue until Congress passes gun control legislation (USA).
Within hours of the Kansas shooting, another mass shooting occurred in Mason County, Washington where four people were killed. In 2016, there have been 50 mass shootings.
With mass shootings occurring almost every week, has the public become indifferent or "numb" to these events? Will more media coverage help shape mass shootings as a priority issue? When will stronger gun regulation be enforced?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/26/obama-mass-shootings-should-dominate-news/80995514/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-decries-deadly-kansas-shooting-numb/story?id=37228183
