U.S. Leaders fight among themselves and America turns Violent Aggression on itself

October violence, lethal threats

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hootings, Bombs (October)

Midwest October 28, 2018: Indiana University “Fraternity Party Shooting Leaves One Dead, Two Injured” Sunday morning in Bloomington, Indiana. Press and police reported a fight at an Eagle Pointe Golf Club venue “escalated into gun violence”

Southeast October 29, 2018: “Student shot, killed by another student at Butler HS in Charlotte”— Fight among students leads to shooting 7:15 a.m. Monday morning shoting in Matthews, North Carolina, near Charlotte leaves one dead and two injured.

The shooter was “angry with another student,” the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent told the press.

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chools Shootings remembered

1999 (Columbine High School massacre) - 2018 (Santa Fe High School in Texas)

• 36 states and the District of Columbia have experienced a shooting
  214,000-plus students experienced gun violence at 216 schools
  141 children, educators and other people (est.) were killed
  284 more were injured.
  38 percent of students experiencing school shootings were African American, although African American students comprise 16.6 percent of schooling population.
  68 (est.) of the schools experiencing shootings—e.g., the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the 2018 Marshall County High School shooting in Kentucky, the 2001 Santana High School shooting in California—“employed a police officer, resource officers, or security guard.”

However, U.S. law mandates “that no Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funds ‘may be used to advocate or promote gun control’ thus prohibiting “almost all study of gun violence.” The “United States federal government does not track school shootings.”

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ass shootings 2018

 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting: 17 deaths, 17 injured, weapon semi-automatic rifle

Santa Fe High School shooting: 10 deaths, 14 injured, weapons shotgun, bombs, revolver

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: 11 deaths 7 injured (including shooter), weapons semi-automatic rifle, multiple semi-automatic pistols

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ail bomb attempts 2018

October 22-26 Targeted addresses of public figures: Katonah, New York; Chappaqua, New York (intercepted by Secret Service); Washington, D.C. (intercepted by Secret Service); Sunrise, Florida; Washington, D.C. (Capitol Hill post office and Los Angeles (postal facility); New York City (Time Warner Center); New Castle, Delaware (post office) and Wilmington, Delaware (post office); New York City (TriBeCa Productions); New York City (post office); Opa-locka, Florida (postal facility); Sacramento, California (postal facility); Burlingame, California (postal facility) 

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ssassination attempts (current, former presidents) October

October 2018: A package, intercepted by the U.S. Secret Service, addressed to Washington, D. C. home of former U.S. President Barack Obama contains “pipe bomb”

October 2018: A letter, intercepted by the U.S. Secret Service, sent by a former U.S. Navy veteran to U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House contains (Ricinus communis) castor beans (whose seeds or oil contains the “highly potent toxin, ricin”: “estimated lethal oral dose in humans: approximately 1 milligram per kilogram”).

The United States leads the world in mass shootings against itself. Whatever else that means, it definitely means that we in the United States of America have severe problems—people problems and people relations problem. 

And instead of dealing with America’s problems, the leaders we send to office and return to office spend their time fighting for power among themselves, and for themselves. In their policies, their pandering to select interests,  their selfishness and entrenched corruption; in their criminal neglect, they are sending America to the trash bin—all the while blaming someone else for their failure to care for, failure to serve and protect the people and land of the United States of America.

Sources

WFIU/WTIU “Fraternity Party Shooting Leaves One Dead, Two Injured Rebecca Thiele October 28, 2018 https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/monroe-county-shooting-leaves-one-dead,-two-injured.php

ABC news “Authorities say a student shot at a North Carolina high school Monday morning has died.” “Student shot, killed at Charlotte-area high school; suspect in custody” October 29, 2018 https://abc11.com/student-shot-at-charlotte-area-high-school-dies/4574650/

Charlotte Observer “Student shot, killed at Charlotte-area high school; suspect in custody” October 29, 2018 https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article220780580.html

WBTV “Student shot, killed by another student at Butler HS in Charlotte, suspect in custody…

 “student has been confirmed dead after a shooting at Butler High School Monday morning” October 29, 2018 http://www.wistv.com/2018/10/29/one-person-shot-butler-hs-suspect-custody-nc/

Wikipedia

School shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting

Mass shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States

Mail bombing attempts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2018_United_States_mail_bombing_attempts

U.S. presidential assassination attempts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

Castor beans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricinus

Ricin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin

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