The famous newspaper "The Onion" is known for creating unique articles that will make you cry from laughter. The best part? New ones are published daily! However, the one article that caught my eye is one that is republished at least two times a month. The article, "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" is published after every mass shooting in the United States. The only difference between each article are the number of people murdered and the place.
Even though this article is republished every few weeks, the great use of situational satire and understatement never fails to make me laugh. One would expect action to be taken when mass shooting occurs "regularly". The article highlights the issue on gun control policies and presents are nation as blind to how bad the issue actually is. The article interviews a citizen to represent the popular opinion of our nation that "sometimes these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them". This pokes fun how there are obvious steps that our nation could take forth to solve this issue however no action has been taken. Instead of policy and change we give our thoughts and prayers and present ourselves as "hopeless".
The best part about the series, is that "The Onion" will not stop publishing this piece until the United States no longer has a gun violence problem. As of right now, looks like we will all be dying of old age sitting in our rocking chairs still laughing at the same article.
Thanks for sharing this Molly, I find that the Onion articles are always really important and this one especially so. I appreciate you pointing out that it's also a good use of understatement, which I don't think I would have necessarily thought of on my own but perfectly fits this. The last part of the article I think is the most important part, and your little comment at the end of your post is almost satire itself, because it seems like you're making an overstatement, but you're really not...
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