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This weekend was like something out of a dystopian novel: two separate places, two separate shooters, and at least twenty-nine people dead.

The first shooting occurred on Saturday in El Paso, Texas. Nineteen minutes before the first 911 call reported shots fired at a local Wal Mart, a 2,300-word anti-immigrant manifesto appeared online. The author drew inspiration from the New Zealand mosque shootings earlier this year. As a result, the FBI is treating the El Paso shooting as an act of domestic terrorism, although authorities are unsure if the man who wrote this document was the same man that opened fire in that Wal Mart, killing at least twenty innocent people and injuring two dozen more.

Less than a day later, a gunmen entered a Dayton, Ohio entertainment district and opened fire. About a thousand people were there, enjoying a warm summer night. The crowds meant there was also a strong police presence, which was fortunate since officers located and shot the gunman within one minute of the first fired shots. Despite the police’s speedy response, the gunman killed nine people and injured twenty-seven more. Authorities have not yet released the gunman’s identity or discussed a possible motive for his violence.

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