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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Is there a link between mass shootings and domestic violence?

    As law enforcement tries to figure out what led to Sunday’s attack at a Baptist church in rural Texas, debate continues over how to prevent mass shootings? In more than half of mass shootings, one of the victims was an intimate partner or relative of the shooter. In the Texas case, the shooter was court-martialed for abusing his wife and child. And he sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law, who attended the church.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Nov 6, 2017 • 47m Listen

    Photo: A recently hung Texas state flag flies near the site of the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland, Texas, U.S., November 6, 2017. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

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