Are researchers asking the right questions to prevent mass shootings?
Learning how to thwart such events may be more effective than analyzing culprits’ backgrounds
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SEEKING ANSWERS Concern over recent mass public shootings, including this one in Dayton, Ohio, August 4 that left 10 people including the gunman dead, may inspire a scientific focus on practical ways to prevent such attacks rather than trying to understand perpetrators’ backgrounds and motives.
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