Generic Responses to Mass Shootings

Let’s stop following the script

Amy J. Devitt, Ph.D.

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President Obama Speaks on the Shooting in Connecticut, Obama White House Archives, obamawhitehouse.gov

And now there’s another one. In Virginia Beach this time. Is it any less horrible because the shooter was a colleague in a workplace? No

Mass shootings have become so common that genres are emerging in response.What an awful statement about our current world.

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Amy J. Devitt, Ph.D.

Writer, teacher, researcher, optimist. I explore language & everyday genres to help people see & choose the language & genres they use. www.amydevitt.com