Author Topic: The (World's) Worst Mass Shootings of the Past 50 Years (Read 6028 times)

islander · « **on:** December 17, 2012, 09:06:42 AM »

some background:

There is no official definition of a "mass shooting," but FBI classifications describe the term as any incident in which a perpetrator kills four or more people, not including him or herself. Under that definition, 19 mass shootings have taken place since April 16, 2007, the date of the Virginia Tech massacre. That's a rate of more than one every four months -- only considering these most brutal examples. Other devastating shootings go largely unnoticed on the national stage. (from Mass Shootings: After 19 In Five Years, Many Thoughts And Prayers, No Real Answers, by Nick Wing and Katy Hall, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/)

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islander · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2012, 09:07:17 AM »

The United Statesâ€™ lax gun laws indisputably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, lead to more gun deaths. The statistics comparing the U.S. to other Western nations with tighter gun laws are staggering: the number of Americans who die in gun accidents in a given year is routinely many times higher than the total gun deaths in the U.K. In Britain in 2008, there were 39 gun murders; in the U.S. in 2009, there were 9,146â€”thatâ€™s right, even adjusted for our larger population, the American rate is 47 times higher. Japanâ€™s recent gun bans have virtually eliminated gun murder in their country. In our country, the states with the strictest gun laws have the lowest rates of gun crime. (from Why the South Loves Guns, by David Sessions Dec 16, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/)

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islander · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2012, 09:25:18 AM »

sadly, most happened in the united states.

from AP/Time
(images from various online sources)

USA, December 14, 2012: A gunman goes on a shooting spree at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 20 six and seven-year-olds, six adults, his mother, and himself.

USA, Dec. 11, 2012: Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, opens fire in a shopping mall in suburban Portland, Ore., shooting numerous rounds from a semiautomatic rifle, ultimately killing two people and seriously injuring another.

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islander · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2012, 09:33:39 AM »

USA, Aug. 5, 2012: Army veteran Wade Michael Page kills five men and one woman and wounds three other people, including a police officer, before taking his own life at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin outside Milwaukee.

USA, July 20, 2012: Twelve people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie â€œThe Dark Knight Rises.â€ James Holmes, a 24-year-old former graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged in the deaths.

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islander · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2012, 09:46:06 AM »

AFGHANISTAN, March 11, 2012: Sixteen Afghan villagers, including nine children, are killed during a predawn attack in which Army prosecutors have charged Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 39.

NORWAY, July 22, 2011: Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 in Norway in twin attacks: a bombing in downtown Oslo and a shooting massacre at a youth camp outside the capital. The self-styled anti-Muslim militant admitted both attacks.

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islander · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2012, 09:56:57 AM »

USA, Jan. 8, 2011: A gunman kills six people and wounds 13 others, including then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in a shooting spree outside a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Doctors say Jared Lee Loughner, who has been charged in the deaths, suffers from schizophrenia.

USA, Nov. 5, 2009: Thirteen soldiers and civilians were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a gunman walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and opened fire. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.

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islander · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2012, 10:16:10 AM »

AZERBAIJAN, April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, enters the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips. He kills 12 people before killing himself as police close in.

USA, 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.

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islander · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2012, 10:28:08 AM »

USA, March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people â€” including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriffâ€™s deputy â€” across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.

FINLAND, Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walks into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opens fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.

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islander · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2012, 10:38:16 AM »

FINLAND, Nov. 7, 2007: After revealing plans for his attack in YouTube postings, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen fires kills eight people at his high school in Tuusula, Finland.

USA, April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, kills 32 people and himself on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.

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islander · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2012, 10:46:41 AM »

GERMANY, April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from school in Erfurt, Germany, kills 13 teachers, two former classmates and a policeman, before committing suicide.

USA, 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 killing themselves in the schoolâ€™s library.

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islander · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2012, 11:12:45 AM »

AUSTRALIA, April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, bursts into cafeteria in seaside resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20 people to death. Driving away, he kills 15 others. He was captured and imprisoned.

SCOTLAND, UK, March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, kills 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and then kills himself.

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hubag bohol · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2012, 11:19:06 AM »

Hmm, could hardly be coincidence...

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islander · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2012, 11:21:05 AM »

i'll never understand the strength of the gun lobby in the u.s.

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islander · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2012, 11:21:32 AM »

USA, Oct. 16, 1991: A deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Lubyâ€™s Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. 20 others were wounded in the attack.

USA, June 18, 1990: James Edward Pough shoots people at random in a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla., killing 10 and wounding four, before killing himself.

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islander · « **Reply #14 on:** December 17, 2012, 11:27:44 AM »

CANADA, Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, bursts into Montrealâ€™s Ecole Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encounters, killing nine and then himself.

ENGLAND, UK, Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, kills 16 people in small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shoots himself dead after being cornered by police.

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islander · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2012, 11:37:27 AM »

USA, July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of California State University, Fullerton, fatally shot seven fellow employees and wounded two others.

USA, Aug. 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who was about to be fired, shoots 14 people at a post office in Edmond, Okla. He then kills himself.

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islander · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2012, 11:47:12 AM »

USA, July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, kills 21 people in a McDonaldâ€™s restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty.

USA, Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman opened fire from the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31.

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Lollapalooza · « **Reply #17 on:** December 17, 2012, 12:12:51 PM »

no Virginia Tech and Columbine?

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islander · « **Reply #18 on:** December 17, 2012, 02:24:01 PM »

no Virginia Tech and Columbine?

naa. USA, April 16, 2007 and USA, April 20, 1999.

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Lollapalooza · « **Reply #19 on:** December 17, 2012, 02:49:36 PM »

naa. USA, April 16, 2007 and USA, April 20, 1999.

hehehehe pasabot gyud nga wala ko katarong ug basa..

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islander · « **Reply #20 on:** December 17, 2012, 03:26:16 PM »

some observations (based only on this list):

a great majority of the mass shooters were white.

rank of country in terms of frequency in the last 50 years:

1. USA (16)
2. Finland (2)
3. Afghanistan (1) - the shooter was an American
Australia (1)
Azerbaijan (1)
Canada (1)
England (1)
Germany (1)
Norway (1)
Scotland (1)

rank of country in terms of fatalities in the last 50 years (excluding the death by suicide of the perpetrator):

1. USA (221)
2. Norway (77) - includes downtown bombing victims
3. Australia (35)
4. Finland (18)
5. Scotland (17)
6. Afghanistan (16)
6. England (16)
6. Germany (16)
9. Azerbaijan (12)
10. Canada (9)

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