5 stunning newspaper front pages condemning America's weekend of violence

(Image credit: Mike Wilson/Courtesy The Dallas Morning News)

last updated 5 August 2019

Gun violence is an entirely American problem, and these newspapers know it.

Over the weekend, a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas left 21 people dead, and another nine were killed in Dayton, Ohio less than a day later. The shootings instantly became national news and, as many papers across the country made clear with their blunt and moving front pages, just two more examples of an undeniably rampant problem in the U.S.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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