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1 posted on 11/11/2009 10:40:28 AM PST by Star Traveler
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We've had the Orlando mass shooting and the Tualatin, Oregon (mass) public shooting, too, since Fort Hood...


Some US 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.

December 1, 1997: Michael Carneal, 14, opened fire on a group of praying students killing 3 young women, injuring four young women, and wounding one young man at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky.

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.

Mass shootings/killings have been part of our society for a long while now... On and on it goes...

2 posted on 11/11/2009 10:42:54 AM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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I blame the Guns for the shootings obviously they decided to hop out of the law abiding owner’s hands and start squeezing off rounds on their own.

Ban guns, save lives, of criminals....


3 posted on 11/11/2009 10:44:43 AM PST by GraceG
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Dear Rebecca Heath

You are a bran-dead moron.

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...a uniquely American phenomenon of mass public shootings.

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Unique? Well, maybe. As in we don’t blow ourselves up as is the common daily custom in Islam nations.

Why don’t you look into that, you liberal POS?


4 posted on 11/11/2009 10:44:45 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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2 dead, 2 hurt in Tualatin workplace shooting
5 posted on 11/11/2009 10:45:38 AM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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Damn, I totally forgot about the two killings this spring.
6 posted on 11/11/2009 10:47:13 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Gunman apprehended after killing 1, injuring 5 others at Orlando office building [Orlando shooting]
7 posted on 11/11/2009 10:47:13 AM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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So, is this author saying that this is all the fault of Killeen? Garbage!


8 posted on 11/11/2009 10:47:44 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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“Although the anecdotal evidence seems to belie the figures”

By “anecdotal evidence” they mean MEDIA HYPE.


9 posted on 11/11/2009 10:50:51 AM PST by Tublecane
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Barf alert tag! Yeesh.

Yet another libtard solution of “Ban guns and there won’t be mass shootings”. How about banning murder? oh wait...


11 posted on 11/11/2009 10:51:09 AM PST by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system. I am Jim Thompson.)
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This guy didn't need a gun:

On May 18, 1927, 45 people, mostly children, were killed and 58 were injured when disgruntled and demented school board member Andrew Kehoe dynamited the new school building in Bath, Michigan out of revenge over his foreclosed farm due in part to the taxes required to pay for the new school.

The Bath School Disaster

16 posted on 11/11/2009 10:54:55 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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Rebecca Heath left out Pearl Harbor: The most terrible mass shooting in the workplace in American history.


19 posted on 11/11/2009 11:02:51 AM PST by Tar and Feathers (www.tarandfeathers.shugartmedia.com)
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“In the both cases, as investigators examine the aftermath motivations are still a mystery. “

PC insanity.


21 posted on 11/11/2009 11:05:11 AM PST by headstamp 2
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HERE IT COMES - THE ‘NEED’ FOR MORE GUN CONTROL


22 posted on 11/11/2009 11:12:11 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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It's Islamic Terror.
Why can't the MSM say that?

Remember, the only uniform our Commander in Chief ever wore looks different than the one that our soldiers wear and strikingly similar to that of the shooter:

26 posted on 11/11/2009 11:21:00 AM PST by Bon mots
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“uniquely American phenomenon?”

Canada, Australia, Finland, Germany, Scotland, Israel...


27 posted on 11/11/2009 11:23:16 AM PST by heartwood
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We should be more like the rest of the world and save our mass killings for the soccer riots.


30 posted on 11/11/2009 11:28:05 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Multiple Victim Public Shootings

http://www.thevrwc.org/JohnLott.pdf


34 posted on 11/11/2009 11:32:05 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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Can’t believe nobody yet has mentioned Suzanna Hupp about the authors “ironic note” talking about the Luby’s shooting.

The “ironic note” was that Suzanna Hupp had a gun, and had the perfect chance to stop the shooter, but she had left it in her car to comply with Texas gun laws at the time.

The shooter...well he wasn’t complying with the laws.


36 posted on 11/11/2009 11:40:11 AM PST by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system. I am Jim Thompson.)
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In the both cases, as investigators examine the aftermath motivations are still a mystery.

There is no mystery here and of course, Ft. Hood has it's own string. . .which this writer refuses to follow. No mystery here either, as to writers motivations. . .and political persuasion.

40 posted on 11/11/2009 11:43:20 AM PST by cricket
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Back suring the Clinton admin several people were killed in a shootng in Washington state.

Clinton decried this as proof we needed more gun control.

On the same daay, the same number of people were kidnapped from Arkansas and were murdered by having their throats cut in Missouri. No gun involve. No mention in the news. No crys for “gun control”.

One man was arrested and the only proof was some celophane wrapped money which was sent to the FBI to have the wrapping checked for fingerprints. The clutzes at the FBI instead opened the package, destroyed the wrapping and tested the money. Evidence destroyed-—the perp walked.


43 posted on 11/11/2009 11:48:23 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The sword does not kill. It is a tool in the killer's hand.---Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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