Posted on 12/14/2012 7:46:45 AM PST by marthemaria
Edited on 12/14/2012 9:12:15 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Gov of Conn on news police report now...I am glad he started with “Evil was here today.”
This is sickening. How can this be?
Prayers for everyone.
Perhaps the shooter is whoever they say it is.
What would be considered "beyond" a government who brought us Fast and Furious, an op that only became described as "botched" when it got publicly outed by the death of an agent?
Reminds me of the first chapter of a Matt Bracken book I read a few years back... of course, that was fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers
We in the states are pikers compared to the rest of the world.
This book explores these questions by examining 909 mass murders that took place in the United States between 1900 and 1999. By far the largest study on the topic to date, it begins with a look at the patterns and prevalence of mass murders by presenting rates from 1900-1999 and by describing the characteristics of mass killers. Placing the phenomenon within the broader social, political, and economic context of the twentieth century, the work examines the factors that have influenced trends in the prevalence of mass murder. It also discusses more than 100 case studies within three distinct periods of mass murder activity (1900-1939, 1940-1965, and 1966-1999) to illustrate more clearly the motives of mass murderers and the circumstances surrounding their crimes. The final chapters take a look at media coverage and the role it has played in the social construction of mass murder.
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The shooting spree that killed 12 people in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater on Friday has sparked a public debate about the availability of automatic weapons. Gun control advocates argue that mass murder is exceedingly difficult without them. One source told the Washington Post, “It’s kind of hard to be a pseudo-commando with a musket in the 18th century.” How did people commit mass murder before the advent of automatic weapons?
Often with fire. Revolutionary War veteran Barnett Davenport is widely considered the first mass murderer in U.S. history. On the evening of Feb. 3, 1780, Davenport burst into the bedroom of his employer, Caleb Mallory, and began to bludgeon Mallory and his wife with a club. When the club broke in two, Davenport beat the couple to death with Mallory’s gun. If Davenport had stopped there, he would be remembered as just an ordinary killer; most criminologists define mass murder as the killing of at least three people in a single incident. After beating the Mallorys to death, however, Davenport burned the house down, killing their three grandchildren.
Hundreds of other mass murderers have perpetrated their crimes without automatic firearms. Frenchman Pierre Riviere killed his mother, sister, and brother with a bill hook in 1835. In 1932, Julian Marcelino, a Filipino immigrant of relatively small stature, managed to kill six and wound 15 on a Seattle street using only a pair of blades. In 1915, Monroe Phillips shot seven dead and wounded 32 with a shotgun in Georgia.
Guns aren’t even the most lethal mass murder weapon. According to data compiled by Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, guns killed an average of 4.92 victims per mass murder in the United States during the 20th century, just edging out knives, blunt objects, and bare hands, which killed 4.52 people per incident. Fire killed 6.82 people per mass murder, while explosives far outpaced the other options at 20.82. Of the 25 deadliest mass murders in the 20th century, only 52 percent involved guns.
The U.S. mass murder rate does not seem to rise or fall with the availability of automatic weapons. It reached its highest level in 1929, when fully automatic firearms were expensive and mostly limited to soldiers and organized criminals. The rate dipped in the mid-1930s, staying relatively low before surging again in the 1970s through 1990s. Some criminologists attribute the late-century spike to the potential for instant notoriety: Beginning with Charles Whitman’s 1966 shooting spree from atop a University of Texas tower, mass murderers became household names. Others point out that the mass murder rate fairly closely tracks the overall homicide rate. In the 2000s, for example, both the mass murder and the homicide rates dropped to their lowest levels since the 1960s.
A mass murderer’s weapon of choice depends somewhat on his victims. Attacks with guns, fire, knives, and bare hands are far more likely to be directed against family and acquaintances than total strangers, while mass murderers prefer to use explosives against people they don’t know. Also of note: Those who use firearms in a killing spree turn the gun on themselves 34 percent of the time, while only 9 percent of mass-murdering arsonists take their own lives.
Wow we just had another presser and it was nothing but a bunch of Politicians looking for face time. No info what ever. This is truly a very sad day.
Leventhal is now not saying anything beyond what he knows for certain. Had just gotten off phone with law enforcement official he trusts.
He corrected misinformation that father was killed. He is alive & talking to FBI. Just now saying Adam may have been carrying brother's ID.
Thank you
According to Rick almost all the details we’ve been questioning are erroneous.
Thanks!
We're talking about non-war, senseless defenseless, mass shooting of the total innocent.
No, they did not occur at the frequency or scale that's occurring in today's modern America, if that is what you're suggesting.
We in the states are pikers compared to the rest of the world.
Did ya notice the word, "modern America" above?
See ya!
Mom was murdered at home? Then why did someone ‘buzz’ Adam in at the school if his mother wasn’t present?
+1
Go figure...that is our media today.
Sad sad day.
Wrong Adam Lanza. Poor guy is getting spammed due to people posting his facebook thinking him to be the killer.
Prayers for the children, parents, siblings, relatives, friends.
I just don’t see austistic people doing all this.
another thing wasn’t he wearing full camo? Who buzzed him in with that on?
FOX said it was his mother’s guns.
I thought the shooting began during morning announcements at the school. Then the PA system would have carried it all over the school.
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