What Is the Line Between a Moral Panic and a True

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Essay

What is the line between a moral panic and a true crisis pattern in a society? Using school shootings as an example, explain how different social problems are linked to rare events of random violence like school shootings to engorge a small amount of some phenomenon into a moral panic (e.g., gun control, bullying, etc.). Does this illustrate the politicization of tragedy?

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