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The shooting deaths of four deaf people in Maine during the Lewiston rifle rampage last week that killed 18 people appears to be the worst mass shooting affecting the deaf community, according to advocates.

Among the dead are Steve Vozzella, Brian MacFarlane, Billy Brackett, and Joshua Seal, who were playing in a weekly cornhole tournament for deaf and hard-of-hearing people at Schemengees Bar & Grille. Maine has about 1.3 million residents, and deaf advocacy groups say the loss of the four men hits especially hard in such a small state.

Read on at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/29/maine-mass-shooting-may-be-worst-ever-affecting-us-deaf-community/71372264007/

Another source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maine-shootings-leave-deaf-community-reeling-4-are-killed-rcna122539

 

 

Some are born deaf because of a spontaneous genetic mutation; some are due to the gene for deafness being very dominant in their families. There are many villages around the world that have high rates of deafness. What intensified this situation is that in many of the villages the majorities of the members are carriers of the gene and keep marrying one another, passing on the gene. Even though they are called “all-deaf” villages, it is literally far from the truth. No village can be all deaf; the title is in reference to the village having a deaf majority.

Read on at https://deafniche.com/8deaf-villages-around-world