rWhistle-Blower, United Nations, Jonathan Van Ness: Your Weekend Briefing

5. The mass shootings came one after another this summer, an average of more than one per week. By Labor Day, 126 people had been killed.

A Times review of every shooting over the unofficial summer season, from the first, in the late afternoon of May 31, to the last, on the night of Sept. 2, found that each one was distinct. Yet clear patterns emerged, including a cycle that kept repeating itself: shooting, mourning, calls for change.

President Trump is expected to decide next week whether to defy the N.R.A. and embrace a bill expanding background checks for gun buyers. Some lawmakers are appealing to his ego to get it passed.

Source: The New York Times

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