Why were there no mass shootings in the 1970s? Does the mood of the country in relation to generational turnings contribute? Is this a Fourth Turning thing?
Here is a list of the deadliest single day mass shootings in US history from 1949 to the present.
If the shooter was killed or died by suicide during the incident, that death is not included in the total.
Events:
58 killed – October 1, 2017 – In Las Vegas, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada, sprays gunfire on a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing 58 people and injuring almost 500. Witnesses say the gunshots last between 10 and 15 minutes. Officers breach Paddock’s hotel room to find him dead. Authorities believe Paddock killed himself and that he acted alone.
49 killed – June 12, 2016 – Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, opens fire inside Pulse, a gay nightclub, in Orlando. At least 49 people are killed and more than 50 are injured. Police shoot and kill Mateen during an operation to free hostages officials say he was holding at the club.
32 killed – April 16, 2007 – Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. A gunman, 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho, goes on a shooting spree killing 32 people in two locations and wounding an undetermined number of others on campus. The shooter dies by suicide.
27 killed – December 14, 2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School – Newtown, Connecticut. Adam Lanza, 20, guns down 20 children, ages six and seven, and six adults, school staff and faculty, before turning the gun on himself. Investigating police later find Nancy Lanza, Adam’s mother, dead from a gunshot wound.
25 and an unborn child killed – November 5, 2017 – A gunman opens fire on a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 25 people and an unborn child and wounding 20 others. The shooter, identified by two law enforcement sources as Devin Patrick Kelley, is found dead after a brief chase, but it’s unclear if it was self-inflicted.
23 killed – October 16, 1991 – In Killeen, Texas, 35-year-old George Hennard crashes his pickup truck through the wall of a Luby’s Cafeteria. After exiting the truck, Hennard shoots and kills 23 people. He dies by suicide.
21 killed – July 18, 1984 – In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Huberty, armed with a long-barreled Uzi, a pump-action shotgun and a handgun, shoots and kills 21 adults and children at a local McDonald’s. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty one hour after the rampage begins.
18 killed – August 1, 1966 – In Austin, Texas, Charles Joseph Whitman, a former US Marine, kills 16 and wounds at least 30 at the University of Texas while shooting from a tower. Police officers Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy shoot and kill Whitman in the tower. Whitman had also killed his mother and wife earlier in the day.
17 killed – February 14, 2018 – A former student unleashes a hail of gunfire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing at least 17 adults and children. Nikolas Cruz, 19, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
14 killed – December 2, 2015 – Married couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik open fire on an employee gathering taking place at Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people. They are later killed in a shootout with police.
14 killed – August 20, 1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, Patrick Henry Sherrill, a part-time mail carrier armed with three handguns, kills 14 postal workers in 10 minutes and then takes his own life.
13 and an unborn child killed – November 5, 2009 – Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 people and one unborn child and injures 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, during a shooting rampage. He is convicted and sentenced to death.
13 killed – April 3, 2009 – In Binghamton, New York, Jiverly Wong kills 13 people and injures four during a shooting at an immigrant community center. He then kills himself.
13 killed – April 20, 1999 – Columbine High School – Littleton, Colorado. Eighteen-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold kill 12 fellow students and one teacher before dying by suicide in the school library.
13 killed – February 18, 1983 – Three men enter the Wah Mee gambling and social club in Seattle, rob the 14 occupants and then shoot each in the head, killing 13. Two of the men, Kwan Fai Mak and Benjamin Ng, are convicted of murder in August 1983. Both are serving life in prison. The third, Wai-Chiu “Tony” Ng, after years on the run in Canada, is eventually convicted of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault. He is deported to Hong Kong in 2014.
13 killed – September 25, 1982 – In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 40-year-old prison guard George Banks kills 13 people including five of his own children. In September 2011, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns his death sentence, stating that Banks is mentally incompetent.
13 killed – September 5, 1949 – In Camden, New Jersey, 28-year-old Howard Unruh, a veteran of World War II, shoots and kills 13 people as he walks down Camden’s 32nd Street using a German-crafted Luger pistol. He is found insane and is committed to a state mental institution. He dies at the age of 88.
12 killed – May 31, 2019 – A shooter opens fire indiscriminately on a Virginia Beach city building, killing 12 people and injuring at least four others. The shooter dies at the scene after a gunfight with police. The gunman, later identified as 40-year-old DeWayne Craddock, was a certified professional engineer in the city’s public utilities department for 15 years and had emailed a resignation letter that morning, citing “personal reasons.”
12 killed – November 7, 2018 – Twelve people are killed in a shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California. Officials say the gunman, Ian David Long, shot an unarmed security guard outside the bar, then went in and continued shooting, injuring other security workers, employees and patrons. Long dies by suicide.
12 killed – September 16, 2013 – Shots are fired inside the Washington Navy Yard, killing 12. The shooter, identified as Aaron Alexis, 34, is also killed.
12 killed – July 20, 2012 – Twelve people are killed, and 58 are wounded in a shooting at a screening of the new Batman film in Aurora, Colorado. James E. Holmes, 24, dressed head-to-toe in protective tactical gear, sets off two devices of some kind before spraying the theater with bullets from an AR-15 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and at least one of two .40-caliber handguns police recovered at the scene. On July 16, 2015, Holmes is found guilty on all 165 counts against him, 24 first-degree murder, 140 attempted murder and one count of possession or control of an explosive or incendiary device. He is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
12 killed – July 29, 1999 – In Atlanta, 44-year-old Mark Barton kills his wife and two children at his home. He then opens fire in two different brokerage houses, killing nine people and wounding 12. He later kills himself.
11 killed – October 27, 2018 – Eleven people are killed in a shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. 46-year-old Robert Bowers surrenders to authorities on the third floor of the building and is now facing federal charges, including hate crimes. Bowers told a SWAT officer while receiving medical care that he wanted all Jews to die and that Jews “were committing genocide to his people,” a criminal complaint filed in Allegheny County says.
10 Killed – May 18, 2018 – Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, allegedly walks into an art class and begins firing, killing eight students and two teachers at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. Pagourtzis is arrested and charged with capital murder and aggravated assault of a public servant.
10 killed – March 10, 2009 – In Alabama, Michael McLendon of Kinston, kills 10 and himself. The dead include his mother, grandparents, aunt and uncle.
9 killed – October 1, 2015 – Gunman Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer shoots and kills nine people, injuring another nine, at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. The shooter dies after a gun battle with police at the college. Six weapons were recovered at the school; another seven were recovered at Harper-Mercer’s home.
9 killed – June 17, 2015 – Dylann Roof, 21, shoots and kills nine people inside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston, South Carolina. Eight die at the scene; a ninth dies at a hospital. Roof is arrested the following day; according to police, he confesses and tells investigators he wanted to start a race war. Roof is convicted of hate crimes in federal court and is sentenced to death and later convicted of murder in state court.
9 killed – March 21, 2005 – Red Lake High School, Red Lake, Minnesota. Sixteen-year-old Jeff Weise kills his grandfather and another adult, five students, a teacher and a security officer. He then kills himself.
9 killed – August 10, 1991 – Six monks, a nun, a monk in training and a temple worker are found shot to death at Wat Promkunaram, a Buddhist temple in Waddell, Arizona. Johnathan Doody, 17, and Alessandro Garcia, 16, are later convicted of the crime and receive multiple life sentences.
9 killed – June 18, 1990 – In Jacksonville, Florida, 42-year-old James Pough, angry about his car being repossessed, opens fire at a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office, killing nine people. Pough takes his own life.
8 killed – October 12, 2011 – Eight people are killed during a shooting at the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, California. The suspect, Scott Evans Dekraai, 41, of Huntington Beach, is arrested without incident as he is trying to leave the scene. The eight victims include Dekraai’s ex-wife, Michelle Fournier, 48. He is armed with three guns — a 9 mm Springfield, a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum, and a Heckler & Koch .45 — and is wearing body armor during the shooting rampage. After a delay of several years due to allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, Dekraai is sentenced on September 22, 2017, to eight consecutive terms of life in prison without parole, plus an additional term of 232 years to life for attempted murder.
8 killed – August 3, 2010 – Manchester, Connecticut – Omar Thornton kills eight co-workers at Hartford Distributors before turning the gun on himself. Thornton had been asked to resign for stealing and selling alcoholic beverages.
8 killed – January 19, 2010 – Christopher Speight, 39, kills eight people at a house in Appomattox, Virginia. He surrenders to police at the scene the next morning. In February 2013, he is sentenced to five life terms plus 18 years.
8 killed – March 29, 2009 – In Carthage, North Carolina, 45-year-old Robert Stewart kills a nurse and seven elderly patients at a nursing home. In May, the Moore County district attorney announces she will seek the death penalty. On September 3, 2011, a jury finds Stewart guilty of second-degree murder. Stewart is sentenced to 141 to 179 years in prison.
8 killed – December 5, 2007 – In Omaha, Nebraska, 19-year-old Robert Hawkins goes to an area mall and kills eight shoppers before killing himself.
8 killed – July 1, 1993 – In San Francisco, 55-year-old Gian Luigi Ferri kills eight people in a law office and then kills himself.
8 killed – September 14, 1989 – In Louisville, Kentucky, 47-year-old Joseph Wesbecker, armed with a AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle, two MAC-11 semiautomatic pistols, a .38 caliber handgun, a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol and a bayonet, kills eight co-workers at Standard Gravure Corporation and then kills himself. He had been placed on disability leave from his job due to mental problems.
8 killed – August 20, 1982 – In Miami, Carl Robert Brown, 51, kills eight people with a shotgun at a machine shop. Brown, a teacher, was reportedly angry about a repair bill from the shop. After fleeing the scene on a bicycle, he is fatally shot by a witness who pursues him.
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I was born just before the Pearl Harbor event that got our country into the Second World War. Television in the 50s was pretty tame. Old cowboy movies, good British flicks, dramas and sitcoms, little of the psychotic, violent fare that followed. As a kid, what I watched was obvious to me as stories, mostly not real. Theater. I quit watching the boob tube many years ago. Too much crap out there. As the purveyors have honed their craft something sinister evolved. Kids were exposed daily to real life killings and mayhem, which is coming home. I have read of what happens when people are put into life or death survival situations, as in the former Yugoslavia, a place I visited in the 60s. The thin veneer of civilization dissolves quickly when you and your family are starving. False flag/psy-op, whatever. It is happening. Be prepared.
Those joo dirtbag controllers will keep up the false flags as long they can. As long as the sheep lap it it up.
This list is a mix of really happened, never-happened, and “didn’t go down as advertised.”
I noted a distinct lack of autopsy photos among the ones that are outright hoaxes.
Jewish victims, wealthy young Jewish women in Ted Bundy’s fake-serial-killer case and Gray-haired geriatrics who died last week and were recruited from the morgue, in the case of the Pittsburgh synagogue hoax. http://mileswmathis.com/synag.pdf
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What were the motives behind those shootings? In some cases it was a disgruntled employee, others it was a domestic triangle or divorce or family relationship issues, Whitman had a brain tumor, Hassan and some others were killing infidels in the name of allah, there were those like the Navy Yard shooter who complained of the voices in his head, Laughner was obviously nuts as well, several of the younger shooters were on SSI’s and the races are a mixed bag.
What one thing is the common trait or motivation that runs through almost all of this? Retribution. Getting even.
What was happening in the seventies that was different? Economic recession, inflation, long gas lines, unemployment and general bad economics along with a nifty war in Viet Nam that folks could admire from afar while eating dinner.
Hell, when you get right down to it, no one really has a clue about what goes on in other people’s heads. Most people don’t resort to mass killings to satisfy feeling of frustration and inadequacy, then again, how many times have we felt the stress that comes from the brain overriding the bodies’ need to kick the shit out of someone who desperately needs it?
So, you really believe the shootings? took place as reported
Some, not all.
So we all agree, then. The problem is mostly… women.
Trump prepares to kneecap his own Campaign with gun control proposals…https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-04/trump-address-nation-monday-over-mass-shootings-says-more-gun-control-may-be-needed
He fakes the left out all the time with similar sayings. He does it because it gets them off his back for a while, then he doesn’t do it. If you don’t know this by now, you never will…
Government killed 250 million people in the last century…but please feel free to lecture me about owning firearms.
Thank you.
+1,000
Wounded Knee is the deadliest shooting in US history, where the US government massacred 250 Sioux men, women, and children. Government has all of them beat.
Yeppers, the IS gov is tops when it comes to mass murders…remember Waco? They killed 80, mostly women and children….and before someone says those folks didn’t die, false flag etc. ….um, they did, I saw with my own little eyes all the evidence and I met some of the surviving Branch Davidians…
It happened, just nothing like we were told.
Plenty of the people survived Waco.
Even the dead ATF agents.
You might start by ditching the government-provided casualty figures.
http://mileswmathis.com/waco.pdf
Your little article is full of holes…first, the autopsies weren’t performed in Waco, they were done by Dr. Peerwani in Tarrant county. He was charged with the task of gathering the forensic evidence and bodies after the fire. There were four shallow graves found on the site, the body of Schroeder was in one of them. I know both Mike and Dick Deguerin, Dick was Koresh’s lawyer and was at the compound four times during the siege. The bullshit claim that Clinton was hiding the ‘true’ facts of Waco to be used as political leverage is so absurd it would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic.
Janet Reno did indeed fall on the sword for him, essentially she was lied to and had to cover her ass. She claimed the raid was to protect the children from child abuse and the BATF at the time was in need of some ‘shock and awe’ to justify their existence.
Go look at the roof shoot out and then say those shot were faking it.
The Mountain Meadows massacre by the Mormons killing settlers passing by was just as bad as the massacre at Wounded Knee…both with about 150 dead. The 250 is too high for Wounded Knee per History.net
Those were Mormons, not .gov. that did the killings, but hey, let us not split hairs.
Take the honest American citizen’s gun to make total numbers of crimes and killings worse; liberals are more interested in destroying the Constitution by taking honest citizen’s guns away, rather than in protecting their own cowardly sheeple asses from the rest of the insane Useful Idiots with illegal guns, which they will all still have.
It appears that the white millennial male has had enough of the white shaming, white guilt, the hate spewed by the left from Hollywood, fake news, and politicians, being called a Nazi and racist every day, all day, 24/7/365 for 3 years, and their delicate snowflake eco system can’t take it, combined with enough Red Bull and first person shooters, no wonder they are going off like powder kegs…
The powers-that-be must amplify guns as a political issue. The shootings serve that purpose and in ways in which they can’t lose.
1.) The white nationalist aspect further divides the country and mobilizes the Democratic base.
2.) If the Democrats win in 2020, extreme anti-gun measures will ensue.
3.) In any event, these latest shootings now have Trump cornered. He will be under tremendous political pressure to move against guns and, in so doing, he loses the support of his base.
Presto change-o! They just love it when their plans come together. And, it looks like a full court press at this point.
Can anyone prove these mass shootings were false flags? Could Trump with all of the intelligence and surveillance assets at his disposal?
Even if he could, would he?
Who has the power?
No democrats needed if Trump is re-elected. Trump won’t renege on the second amendment until after you’ve already treated him to another 4 years in 2020. Then he will capitulate with the anti-gun forces in AmeriKa. He’ll be the democrats darling on gun control even more than he already is on immigration.
Just further proves there is no difference between democrats and republicans. A uniparty.
El Paso Shooter and Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooter practically twins
Uncola- Who has the power? The Fourth Estate, if we actually had one. But, we don’t have a free press who looks out for “we the people”. A free press who has honest to God investigative reporters and researcher who shine the light on falsehoods and LARPS/FF.
This quote never gets old.
A CIA document dated 10 Feb 1954 describes an experiment on the creation of unsuspecting assassins: “Miss [deleted] was then instructed (having expressed a fear of firearms) that she would use every method at her disposal to awaken Miss [deleted] (now in a deep hypnotic sleep) and failing this, she would pick up a pistol and fire it at Miss [deleted]. She was instructed that she would not hesitate to “kill.” Miss [deleted] carried out these suggestions including firing the (unloaded) gun at [deleted]. After proper suggestions were made, both were awakened. Miss [deleted] expressed absolute denial that the foregoing sequence had happened.” BB 36, 37
Compared to!
William Cooper was entirely right when he wrote how they will take away gun rights.
I did not see this one from 1973. It is worth going on FB to read about it. They took out the shooter with .50 cal.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/299574806890193/permalink/1239222636258734?sfns=mo
KeyserSusie,
Wow, that was a blast from the past. Forgot all about that sniper incident.
I was hanging in The Big Easy in the spring/summer of 72 working for the Red River Barge Line and Interstate Security on Canal Street, sowing some wild oats in the Crescent City. Went back in 75 and stayed for 18 months Roughnecking off shore for Nobel Drilling and as a Barge Handler for Evans Cooperage.
Heard many stories about the sniper from people who were there.
Here is some more scoop.
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?15583-1973-New-Orleans-Tower-Sniper-Was-it-a-Black-Op