当地时间4日凌晨，美国俄亥俄州（Ohio）代顿市（Dayton）发生大规模枪击案，目前已致9人死亡。
这是继8月3日在得州（Texas）埃尔帕索市（El Paso）一沃尔玛超市发生枪击案后的又一起。埃尔帕索（El Paso）枪击案造成20人死亡。
两起案件都骇人听闻，一名枪手在1分钟内杀死9人，其中包括自己的妹妹；另一名枪手提前在8chan论坛发布长达四页的网络宣言，表达对此前造成51人死亡的新西兰基督城枪击案的支持。
4日，他下令政府部门降半旗，向遇难者志哀，特朗普推特写道，“今天，为了纪念德克萨斯州埃尔帕索市和俄亥俄州代顿市的悲剧受害者，我授权所有联邦政府大楼降半旗......”
....The flags at the White House will be lowered today through Thursday, August 8. Melania and I are praying for all those impacted by this unspeakable act of evil!
“白宫也将降半旗，直到8月8日，星期四。梅拉尼亚和我正在为所有受到这种无法形容的邪恶行为影响的人祈祷。”
Back-to-Back Outbreaks of Gun Violence in El Paso and Dayton Stun Country
DAYTON, Ohio — On Sunday, Americans woke up to news of a shooting rampage in an entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, where a man wearing body armor shot and killed nine people, including his own sister. Hours earlier, a 21-year-old with a rifle entered a Walmart in El Paso and killed 20 people.
rampage 横冲直撞；撒野；狂暴行为
shooting rampage 枪击案
rifle 来福枪；步枪
rifle range 步枪射击场
In a country that has become nearly numb to men with guns opening fire in schools, at concerts and in churches, the back-to-back bursts of gun violence in less than 24 hours were enough to leave the public stunned and shaken. The shootings ground the 2020 presidential campaign to a halt, reignited a debate on gun control and called into question the increasingly angry words directed at immigrants on the southern border in recent weeks by right-wing pundits and President Trump.
gun violence 枪支暴力
numb（由于过度震惊或恐惧而）麻木的，思维迟钝的
pundit （某方面的）专家，权威
“It’s outrageous,” said Terrion Foster, who works in accounting and lives in Kansas City, Mo., where he was out shopping at a farmer’s market near downtown on Sunday afternoon. “It’s really sad because I feel like you can’t go anywhere and be safe. I’m 50 years old and I didn’t think I’d be alive to see some of the things that are going on today.”
outrageous 无法接受的;（因反常或怪异）吓人的，惊人的，令人震惊的
The shootings prompted Republicans, including Mr. Trump, to condemn the gunmen’s actions and offer support to the people of Dayton and El Paso. Democrats urged Congress to take action and pass stricter gun laws. “We have a responsibility to the people we serve to act,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.
condemn sb to (do) sth 判决，宣判（某人某种刑罚）
Residents of El Paso were on edge, grimly aware of a manifesto posted online that the authorities said was written by the suspect, Patrick Crusius, 21, who was in police custody. The manifesto spoke of a “Hispanic invasion of Texas,” described an imminent attack by the writer and railed against immigrants.
on edge 如坐针毡的；惴惴不安的；烦躁的
manifesto（尤指政党的）宣言
Federal investigators in El Paso said they were treating the massacre at the Walmart that also wounded another 27 on Saturday morning as an act of domestic terrorism, and prosecutors said they were considering federal hate crime charges. They were also considering federal gun charges that would carry the death penalty.
“We are going to conduct a methodical and careful investigation with a view toward those charges,” said John F. Bash, the United States attorney for the Western District of Texas, who said he had consulted with Attorney General William P. Barr.
massacre 大屠杀；残杀
domestic terrorism 国内恐怖主义
carry the death penalty 执行死刑
methodical（指人做事）有条理的，井然有序的
Attorney General 检察总长，首席检察官；司法部长
In Bellbrook, a quiet suburb of Dayton that residents described as a “utopia,” the typical Sunday morning peace was disrupted by the police and news media who swarmed the cul-de-sacs and sidewalks of the neighborhood where Connor Betts, the 24-year-old suspect, is believed to have lived.
utopia 理想中的完美世界
cul-de-sac （法）死巷；死路；困境
Brad Howard, 25, who had known Mr. Betts since before kindergarten and rode the bus with him to school for years, opened his phone and saw the news of his classmate on Sunday morning. “It was just another one of those things,” he said. “Just a kick in the teeth.”
Theo Gainey, who lived for 10 years down the block from the Bettses and was a year ahead of Connor Betts in school, remembered him as a “bit of an outcast,” ostracized in large part because of threats he made at school that got him into serious trouble.
outcast 流浪的人；被驱逐的人
“He got arrested on the school bus” for the threats, said Mr. Gainey, who added that he was on the bus himself when it happened. He recalled Mr. Betts being a freshman or sophomore at the time. Mr. Gainey, 25, did not remember the specifics of the threats but said that Mr. Betts had to leave school for the rest of that year. When he returned, “the threat thing followed him, and people didn’t want to hang out with him.”
sophomore （美国大学或高中的）二年级学生
Mr. Betts died during the shooting, and his motive appeared unclear. Some details about him began to emerge on Sunday: He attended local public schools in Bellbrook, took classes at Sinclair Community College in the Dayton area and was majoring in psychology. He had been working at a gas station and was registered to continue classes in the upcoming fall semester.
He was charged in May 2016 with operating a vehicle while under the influence in 2015, and a ticket said he had a blood alcohol content of .091, over the legal limit of .08. Mr. Betts pleaded guilty the next year to a lesser charge of having physical control of a vehicle while under the influence.
Witnesses to the shooting, which occurred in the early-morning hours of Sunday, described a scene of horror and chaos.
He and a friend rushed back to the bar and found bodies all over the ground. Officers at the scene were asking for belts to use as tourniquets, so Mr. Williams took his belt off. His friend attempted CPR on one of the victims, pumping his chest and urging the man to hang on. He didn’t survive.
tourniquets 止血带
CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation 心肺复苏术
“You just wouldn’t believe the people who have pulled together and tried to save these people, and there wasn’t any saving,” Mr. Williams said. “Most of them were probably dead.”
The shooting began at 1:07 a.m. on East Fifth Street in Dayton’s Oregon entertainment district, which was bustling with late-night revelers enjoying a warm summer evening, said Nan Whaley, the mayor of Dayton. Uniformed officers on routine patrol in the area responded, shooting and killing the gunman within one minute of his first gunshots, she said.
reveler 狂欢者；饮酒狂欢者
routine patrol 例行巡逻
The nine victims were men and women ranging from 22 to 57 years old, including Mr. Betts’s sister, Megan K. Betts, who was 22. Twenty-seven other people were injured.
The authorities said they still had not established a motive for the shooting. They said Mr. Betts arrived in the entertainment district Saturday evening with his sister and another “companion.” Mr. Betts then split from the rest of the group for a period of time before opening fire, the authorities said.
Across the country, Americans tried to process the weekend of violence while going about their usual routines. On Sunday morning at the National Cathedral in Washington, the Rev. Dr. Leonard Hamlin Sr. spoke to Americans struggling to grasp the violence and loss of life, on top of what can feel like a long list of national and personal struggles.
“Our real challenge is to look within,” he said. “If you are honest this morning, all of us need to be transformed at little bit more.”
In Cambridge, Mass., people said they had little hope that the events would lead to any policy changes.
“It’s disheartening, I think, to see so many politicians just keep doing the same kind of wash-rinse-repeat kind of cycle of: mass shooting happens, and then it’s tweet about thoughts and prayers, and then it becomes, ‘We can’t talk about political ideology, we can’t talk about this and that,’ ” said Greg Cameron, 31, who does marketing for a bike-share company.
political ideology 政治意识形态
Laura Platt, 33, a physician, said she wanted to see better gun policies enacted but had no expectation that that would happen.
“Nothing happened after Sandy Hook, so I think nothing’s going to happen after this,” she said.
Mr. Trump, who spent the weekend at his estate in Bedminster, N.J., thanked law enforcement officials in both cities on Sunday, declaring that “hate has no place in our country, and we are going to take care of it.” He said that “a lot of things are in the works.”
Mr. Trump did not elaborate on that statement.
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