The Onion

There are a couple of inevitable responses to a mass shooting in America: funerals and fundraisers, prayers from politicians and the resurfacing of one ...

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The Onion blanketed its homepage today with the same article it has posted in response to many other past mass shootings, skewering the idea that such ...

“‘This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,’ said Idaho resident Kathy Miller, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations.” Jason Roeder, former senior writer and editor at The Onion, posted on Twitter in 2018 that he wrote the headline. That was after there was a mass shooting in the Isla Vista community near UC Santa Barbara.

The Onion's editor-in-chief, Chad Nackers, explained why after the Uvalde shooting it reposted every variation of its story "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says ...

"And this is a good way for us to kind of make a point and have a kind of powerful piece that just keeps showing how this keeps happening." "We have this platform, and we felt like this is a very effective way to show how it just keeps on happening." "I think hard satire deals with controversial issues that are hard to talk about — often violence and other things — and there's a there's a point made and it's exposing the truth, but it's not doing it purely for laughs," he said. "It's just heartbreaking to see this happening. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Idaho resident Kathy Miller, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. It takes you probably 30 seconds to scroll through all the articles if you just keep moving.

The Onion is infamous for this headline, posted after almost every mass shooting: "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says the Only Nation Where This Regularly ...

This is totally predictable." "You said this is not predictable. On Wednesday, the satirical news website posted that story 21 times, filling most of its homepage.