Posted on 11/06/2009 12:04:46 PM PST by Star Traveler
ORLANDO, Fla. — Police in Orlando say a gunman has been apprehended after killing one person and injuring five others at a downtown office building where he was let go two years ago.
Police Chief Val Demings says 40-year-old Jason Rodriguez surrendered to police at his mother's home after officers saw him through a window and asked him to come out.
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Yesterday it was a Muslim in a mass shooting. Today it’s a Cuban/Mexican (by what his name is and what he looks like).
Before, it was all sorts of others doing the mass shootings. It seems to be part of our culture to do mass shootings...
Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings:
April 3, 2009: A 41-year-old man opened fire at an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers. Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant and a former student at the center, killed himself as police rushed to the scene.
March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people, including his mother, four other relatives and the wife and child of a local sheriff’s deputy, across two rural Alabama counties. He then committed suicide.
Feb. 14, 2008: Former student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, fatally shooting five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide.
Dec. 5, 2007: Robert A. Hawkins, 19, opened fire with a rifle in Omaha, Neb., at a Von Maur store in the Westroads Mall, killing eight people before taking his life. Five more people were wounded, two critically.
April 16, 2007: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shot 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then killed himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Feb. 12, 2007: Sulejman Talovic, 18, killed five and wounded four at the Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City. He was then shot and killed by police.
Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, shot to death five girls at West Nickel Mines Amish School in Pennsylvania, then killed himself.
March 21, 2005: Jeffrey Weise, a 16-year-old student, killed nine people – his grandfather and his grandfather’s companion at home, and then five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minn. – before killing himself. Seven students were wounded.
March 12, 2005: Terry Ratzmann, 44, gunned down members of his congregation as they worshipped at the Brookfield Sheraton in Brookfield, Wis., slaying seven and wounding four before killing himself.
July 29, 1999: Former day trader Mark Barton, 44, killed nine people in shootings at two Atlanta brokerage offices, then committed suicide.
April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before committing suicide in the school’s library.
March 24, 1998: Andrew Golden, 11, and Mitchell Johnson, 13, killed four girls and a teacher at a Jonesboro, Ark., middle school. Ten others were wounded in the shooting.
Oct. 16, 1991: George Hennard, 35, smashed his pickup through a Luby’s Cafeteria window in Killeen, Texas, and fired on the lunchtime crowd with a high-powered pistol, killing 22 people. At least 20 others were wounded.
Aug. 20, 1986: Postal worker Patrick Henry Sherrill killed 14 people in an Edmond, Okla., post office, then killed himself.
July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, 41, an out-of-work security guard, shot and killed 21 people at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. He was slain by police.
Aug. 1, 1966: Former Marine sharpshooter Charles Whitman climbed the stairs to the observation deck at the University of Texas Tower and began a 96-minute shooting spree, killing 14 people and wounding 31 before he was shot and killed. He had stabbed his mother and wife to death earlier.
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Mass shootings/killings have been part of our society for a long while now... On and on it goes...
How long before the media and the left will call for seizure of guns from honest, law-abiding citizens, while deliberately and with full awareness leaving them in the hands of criminals.
Yes the media is now saying he is suffering from DELAYED stress from being terminated TWO years ago.
I AM SICK OF THE KILLERS BEING PORTRAYED AS VICTIMS.
STOP THE MADNESS.
“our culture”?
Speak for yourself.
I’m not the one doing the shootings, but it’s in our culture, to be sure...
The difference is that the Orlando shooter didn’t do it because he thought his religion was telling him to. There will always been crazy people who decide to “resolve” a workplace (in his case) or a marriage or other dispute by killing everybody around them. But on your list, all the others - the Muslims - did it because of their religion, and they said so at the time.
I am aware of the Islamo-fascist governmental idealogy (that many call Islam) designed to take over the world under a one-world government using terror and killings to help carry out the deed.
And while that part may be true, mass shootings have still been going on here in the U.S. for a long while now (along with a goodly number of individual shootings, that get a whole lot less press coverage).
I’m afraid that we’re killing off each other, in this country, a whole lot faster than the Muslims are able to do it — in this country (including what was done on 9/11).
They’re whipping up the anti-gun movement again.
I’m afraid they’ll get some momentum going if we continue to have mass shootings in short order ... here...
So let me guess, they’re now going to spend more time covering this, and saying about “general mass shootings” than covering the 1st major terrorist attack (on an army base, no less) on US soil since 9/11
We’re definitely missing about 20-30 that have occurred in just the past year. Think about entire family murder/suicide that have taken place this year alone. Mass shootings were almost unheard of many years ago. They have become more and more frequent and is something that should not be accepted or numbed to. Something is very wrong, horribly wrong.
No doubt — that is so...
This list came from the press and I’m sure they put it together in a hurry. Someone already let me know about another one to add. I’m afraid we would have to write a book, if we included all the mass shootings that are perpetrated upon ourselves in this country...
“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.”
You bet!
“For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation “
- Psalm 132:13
And His name isn’t Allah.
Well..., as far as I’m concerned, the military shouldn’t allow practicing Muslims in. If you let the enemy in, you’re going to get attacked from the inside. It only makes sense.
Furthermore, the U.S. should outlaw the Islamo-fascist government idealogy that people refer to as Islam — because it’s a foreign government/entity designed expressly for the overthrow of this country and its system of government, and thereby — illegal.
But, that would be way too smart for them to do that... so what can I say?
You said — And His name isn’t Allah.
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Yeah! And those Muslims have an inferiority complex when it comes to “Allah”. That’s why they always yell — “Allahu Akbar” when doing all those terrorist acts — just to make sure they can try and convince everyone of — “The God Allah is greater” ...
Ummm..., they mean greater than the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” .... LOL...
They’ll never win... :-)
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Furthermore, the U.S. should outlaw the Islamo-fascist government idealogy that people refer to as Islam — because it’s a foreign government/entity designed expressly for the overthrow of this country and its system of government, and thereby — illegal.
But, that would be way too smart for them to do that... so what can I say?
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I’d say, keep saying that, but maybe get together with some friends and take it to the streets. Try reaching local media.
Then to boot, they're allowed to remain in the military even though they publicly talk about "killing the infidels".
What kind of warped people are running the military? And.....I'm NOT talking about the military leaders, but the civilian leaders. And....I'll answer my own question, the civilian leaders are either Obamified, or doubly-Obamified.
This is terrifying when you really start thinking of what's going on and what else is going to happen.
Leni
“....if we included all the mass shootings that are perpetrated upon ourselves in this country...”
What’s this “we” stuff?
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