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Frank Shyong

Frank Shyong: Treating mass shootings as political discourse only gives killers more influence

A series of shootings over the weekend have once again left us all reeling and searching for answers in the aftermath.

Ten people died in what authorities are calling a racially motivated shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday. The shooter targeted a Black neighborhood and left a trail of white supremacist statements for investigators online, according to police.

On Sunday, a 68-year-old Asian man chained the doors shut and opened fire at worshipers inside Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, killing one and wounding five others. Orange County investigators found scribbled notes in the shooter's car saying that his actions were motivated by anger over Taiwanese independence.

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