Mexico to US After Oregon Community College Shootings: And You Call Us Dangerous? Andrea Crossan and Bradley Campbell - PRI's The World
go to original October 5, 2015

Hungry for information: the media, here covering the shooting in Oregon, falls into now-familiar patterns in covering mass shootings. (Steve Dipaola/Reuters)

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We often find ourselves describing the violence that's happening somewhere else on the globe. Or we report on countries that we describe as much more dangerous than our own.

But today we find ourselves covering the aftermath of yet another mass shooting here in the US: at a community college in Oregon. Ten people dead — including the gunman. And so many familiar questions about warning signs and the availability of guns.

For some perspective on this we might want to look at one of those countries we often describe as "violent" and "dangerous."

Mexico.

Many in that country think we in the US are just a little hypocritical.

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