The Onion

2022 - 5 - 26

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'No Way To Prevent This': The Onion homepage reflects all recent ... (USA TODAY)

Further down the page, The Onion also has satirical stories referring to the National Rifle Association and gun control in the U.S., which several people like ...

"We wrote it for one particular attack, and subsequently it has run for many others with just the date changed. In total, there are 21 satirical stories with the same headline on their homepage. In addition to their website, The Onion also posted a Twitter thread of all the times they used the headline referring to a mass shooting, which began in 2014.

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After Texas School Shooting, The Onion Posts 21 Stories on ... (Variety)

The Onion posted 21 articles with the same headline about U.S. gun massacres on its homepage after the shooting in Texas.

Each of the articles quotes a fictional person-on-the-street saying the same thing — “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them” — which The Onion articles say “echo[es] 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.” That included the latest installment in the series, following the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two adults dead at an elementary school. Since 2014, satirical website The Onion has published virtually the same article — each with the same headline, “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” — 21 times, each one following a major gun massacre in the United States.

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Or for a variety of anti-NRA satire pieces to fill out the rest of the main page. The current Onion is far from its satirical peak, but it's good to see it can ...

The Onion runs that same article every time something like this happens, so if you’re familiar with that site you already expected to see that headline today. If you haven’t taken a look at the main page of The Onion today, go ahead and do so now. The current Onion is far from its satirical peak, but it’s good to see it can still rise to the occasion when needed.

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'The Onion' has republished a grim headline about mass shootings ... (NPR)

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 Flooded Its Homepage With The Same 21 Stories It Has ... (BuzzFeed News)

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.

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The Onion reposts the same headline on mass shootings 21 times ... (CNN)

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.

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He Wrote The Onion's Famous Mass-Shooting Headline. It Still ... (Rolling Stone)

As the gut-wrenching news that 19 children and two teachers were killed in their Uvalde, Texas school on Tuesday, a few people remarked grimly on social ...

“I worry it’s just another part of the mass shooting ceremony — thought ‘n’ prayers, don’t politicize, #GunControlNow, and so on,” he says. He lives in Los Angeles with “one overfed cat” and recently cowrote, with Mike Sacks, a college catalog parody called Welcome to Woodmont, published by McSweeney’s, and has another humor book coming out in the fall. “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” was written in the days following the 2014 stabbing and shooting rampage that left six people dead and more than a dozen others wounded in Isla Vista, California and has been published 21 times since, each following a mass shooting.

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“No Way To Prevent This”: The Onion Blankets Homepage With ... (Deadline)

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.

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The Onion homepage goes viral in wake of Uvalde mass shooting (INSIDER)

The Onion's homepage went viral for featuring all of the website's "No Way To Prevent This" articles satirizing the inaction after mass shootings.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said there would be a vote on gun control laws when the legislators return from Easter recess in June. The article caricatures the inaction that often follows mass shootings, and starkly paints how some of the populace responds to these calamities by shrugging them off. The article tends to go viral on Twitter every time it's republished following a mass shooting.

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'The Onion' has republished a grim headline about mass shootings ... (Boise State Public Radio)

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

In the wake of these really terrible things, we have this comment that really holds up." The Onion leaned into its message on Wednesday, sharing a Twitter thread listing every version of the piece from over the years. "I'm proud to work alongside the people who saw the potential in that, and who were able to send out that message and make it resonate. There really wasn't anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that's what they really wanted." "It's a shame, but what can we do? Dave Cullen, a journalist who has covered mass shootings for years and wrote the New York Times bestseller Columbine, told NPR in 2015 that the article "resonates because they totally got it."

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