# Uvalde, Texas school shooting - the political thread

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036 "2022-05-24T21:36:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036/20 "2022-05-24T22:28:08Z")

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Because I perceive the forum to be hostile to solutions for most of these homicides and additionally, uninterested. People like what is flashy–even though the continual media hype around mass shootings, very likely costs lives: [Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings | PLOS ONE](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117259)

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