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

The Dallas Morning News.
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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.

The Tampa Bay Times, which saw last year's Parkland shooting in its state of Florida, used a bold headline to declare the U.S. is "one nation under fire."

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The Boston Globe brutally ran side-by-side images of camo-clad officers patrolling El Paso and bystanders caring for a shooting victim in Dayton, writing that "this is what we've become."

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The Dallas Morning News, which saw a likely attempt at a shooting at its federal building in June, meanwhile spelled out what many Americans are probably thinking in the wake of the 250th and 251st mass shootings this year: "Again? Yes, again."

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Some papers shared outright calls for action, like how the Austin American-Statesman ran its editorial decrying "American carnage" on the front page.

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The Chicago Sun-Times was even more straightforward, putting the headline for its "blame the guns" editorial on its front page as well.

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The conservative New York Post, owned by Fox News' Rupert Murdoch, also used its Monday edition to call on Trump to "ban assault weapons."

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Kathryn Krawczyk

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.