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Viral Onion Story On Mass Shootings Hits Too Close To Home

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
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Overnight Editor, HuffPost

A story from satire site The Onion that gets passed around after every mass shooting hit a little too close to home following Wednesday’s killing spree at a Florida high school.

The story, which was updated to include details of the latest shooting but was otherwise the same, featured the viral headline:

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

Former Onion senior writer Jason Roeder, who wrote the headline, said on Twitter that the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, actually occurred near his own home:

Before You Go

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Shooting
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Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (credit:Joel Auerbach/AP)
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Medical personnel tend to a victim outside of Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images) (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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People are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
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Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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An officer tells parents waiting at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway to go to the Marriott hotel to meet up with their kids from Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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Students are evacuated by police out of Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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A family reunites outside of Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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A video still shows students being evacuated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:WSVN.com/Reuters)
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Students and adults leave following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. (credit:MICHELE EVE SANDBERG via Getty Images)
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Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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Parents meet at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:MICHELE EVE SANDBERG via Getty Images)
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A young woman who just walked out from the direction of the high school, who refused to give her name, gets a hug as she reaches the overpass at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:MICHELE EVE SANDBERG via Getty Images)
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Students are brought across Coral Springs Drive from the the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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People embrace while leaving the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel after a deadly shooting at Marjory Soneman Douglas High School. (credit:The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:MICHELE EVE SANDBERG via Getty Images)
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Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:Sun Sentinel via Getty Images)
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Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:MICHELE EVE SANDBERG via Getty Images)
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Rescue workers help a victim near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:WSVN.com/Reuters)
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Police put a suspect in handcuffs near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (credit:WSVN.com/Reuters)
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