Posted on 10/02/2017 4:53:20 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Edited on 10/02/2017 7:17:46 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Reporter was using clips when they meant mags here though.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/02/deadliest-shootings-in-u-s-history.html
Here are the deadliest shootings in U.S. history.
— Pulse nightclub massacre: Omar Saddiqui Mateen killed at least 49 people and wounded more than 50 inside Pulse, a gay nightclub, on June 12, 2016.
— San Bernardino shooting: On Dec. 2, 2015, husband and wife Syed Rizqan Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire at a holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif., killing 14 people and wounding 22 others. After the shooting, the couple was killed by police in a shootout.
— Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre: In 2014, Adam Lanza, 20, shot his mother dead in her home, then drove to the Connecticut school and fatally shot 20 children, between the ages of 6 and 7, plus six staffers at the school, for a total of 27 dead. He then killed himself.
— Virginia Tech massacre: Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho shoots dead 32 people in two locations of the school’s Blacksburg, Va., campus in April 2007.
— Columbine High School massacre: In April 1999 two seniors at the Colorado school, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, fatally shot 12 students and one teacher and wounded 21 others before killing themselves.
— Luby’s cafeteria shooting: George “Jo Jo” Hennard, an unemployed merchant seaman, shot and killed 23 people and wounded 20 others at Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, on Oct. 16, 1991. Hennard killed himself about 13 minutes after the rampage.
— San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre: On July 18, 1984, James Huberty, 41, shot and killed 21 people and injured 19 others in and around a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. Huberty was later killed by a SWAT team sniper.
— University of Texas tower shooting: On Aug. 1, 1966, University of Texas engineering student Charles Whitman climbed to the school’s iconic clock tower and opened fire. Whitman, a former Marine who had murdered his mother and wife earlier that morning, killed 13 and wounded 43 before he was gunned down by police.
— Greenwood massacre: Racial violence in Tulsa, Okla., in 1921 left as many as 300 dead, nearly all African-Americans.
— Ludlow massacre: Members of the Colorado National Guard plus guards hired by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. killed 19 striking coal miners in 1914. Many of the victims were minorities and immigrants.
— Colfax massacre: On Easter Sunday of 1873, in the bloodiest racial attacks during Reconstruction, white Democrats slaughtered as many as 153 African-Americans at the Colfax, La., courthouse and later as other victims were being held prisoner.
— Fort Pillow massacre: On April 12, 1864, Confederate soldiers shot dead or bayoneted to death 277 African-American soldiers fighting for the Union in Henning, Tenn. Nearly all of the victims had surrendered and dropped their weapons when they were killed.
— Saltville massacre: Shortly after winning a battle in 1864 near Saltville, Va., Confederate troops killed between 45 and 50 wounded or captured African-American troops who had been fighting for the North.
— Lawrence massacre: Pro-confederate guerrillas in 1863 killed as many as 200 civilians and burned down a quarter of Lawrence, Kan., a pro-Union community.
— Spirit Lake massacre: In 1857 Native Americans of the Santee Sioux tribe killed 35 to 40 settlers and took four young women captive near West Okoboji, Iowa.
— Bloody Island massacre: In 1850 federal troops killed as many as 200 Native Americans of the Pomo tribe on an island in Clear Lake, Calif. The attack was in revenge for the murder of two white settlers by members of another Native American tribe.
Worse shooting, but not the most.
That is still held by the 9-11 attackers and earlier Julio Gonzalez who burned to death so many at the Happyland dance club.
Don't think it was fully auto. I think a slide-fire/bump-fire device was used, possibly even a binary trigger (works on both the pull and release of the trigger - but seems too steady for this). To obtain a fully auto anything, he'd have to be known to local and federal LEOs. Those weapons are tracked. We'd know in a nano-second that this was the case.
A bit too early to "flag" this horror, other than to assume an Islamic component. Which "false" are you proposing?
But those types do not tend to kill themselves. They try to survive and escape.
Source, please? I strongly believe you are correct, but I need a source to throw in lib-in-denial faces.
I think they were fully automatic as the sounds indicate. Plus the area of fire was fairly wide spread in a way to almost indicate strafing.
Even in the 60s, country music was way more popular than rock and roll.
Maybe it was a Bernie Sanders supporter. One Sanders supporter nearly killed Rep. Scalise and another killed two people up in Portland, Maine who were trying to defend a Muslima against the Sanders supporter.
These are morons. How long have automatic weapons been banned (except for gun collectors)? Since 1930?
Those weren’t committed with guns. If you want the worst shooting ever, even a small war has Paddock’s record licked.
Those weren’t committed with guns. If you want the worst shooting ever, even a small war has Paddock’s record licked.
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