Endless Thoughts, Prayers, and Violence

20th, 21st Centuries USA Massacres 

Extended and Updated November 9, 2018

 

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merican exceptionalists left, right and center obsessively centered on themselves refuse to believe, consider or take seriously the obvious fact that we in the United States of America—heirs to a land of the free, home of the brave which is neither free nor brave—have a severe and compelling “people” problem. We have a problem with ourselves individually and as a group of citizens, the body politic.

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e have human rights and human relations problems.

We have a problem of character—lacking proper humility, civility, and respect for one another and for others more generally.

We fail to see or acknowledge the validity of others, foreign and/or domestic.

We have problem with our priorities: warped priorities — war and violence over peace and nonviolence, death and plunder over health and education, work and welfare for all.

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nternational or domestic laws, the Constitution of the United States of America, the principles set out in the American Declaration of Independence all are used and abused (as religious texts) selectively and expediently as suits the whim of inordinate power. And, as U.S. government officials steal from the masses (the public treasury) to fund their weapons paymasters and endlessly to decimate foreign lands and peoples, all against the public good — those Americans who feel disheartened, discarded, disregarded, diseased, or disgruntled take government’s example of annihilation; and take out their frustrations on themselves, and in mass elimination of others.

We have serious problems in America that need the serious attention of serious people.  

In the list below of massacres or mass killings, the cutoff is 10 or more deaths. the list is not exhaustive.

1960s

August 1, 1966 University of Texas tower shooting (former U.S. Marine, University of Texas-Austin); WEAPONS rifles, revolver, pistols, shotgun 18 (including shooter) 31 injured

1970s

• March 30, 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre (Hamilton, Ohio); WEAPONS semi-automatic pistols and revolver: 357 Magnum handgun, .22-caliber handguns, rifle (not used): among deadliest shootings inside private residence: 11 family members dead; shooter imprisoned.

• 1978 - 1995 Serial Unabomber (mathematics prodigy, former mathematics professor); weapons bombs (16 bombs attributed to the bomber, transport, mailing, use of bombs); 3 dead; 23 injured

1980s

• 1978 - 1995 Serial Unabomber (mathematics prodigy, former mathematics professor); weapons bombs (16 bombs attributed to the bomber, transport, mailing, use of bombs); 3 dead; 23 injured

• April 15, 1984 Palm Sunday massacre (Brooklyn, New York); WEAPONS semi-automatic pistols: 10 dead; one infant survivor

• July 18, 1984 San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre (San Diego, California); WEAPONS semi-automatic rifle, pistol, shotgun: 22 dead (including shooter); 19 injured

• August 20, 1986 Edmond post office shooting (Edmond, Oklahoma); WEAPONS semi-automatic pistols: 15 dead (including shooter) 6 injured.

1990s

• June 18, 1990 GMAC shootings (Jacksonville, Florida) WEAPONS semi-automatic rifle, 38-caliber revolver, Universal M1 Carbine: dead 10 (including shooter); 6 injured

• October 16, 1991 Luby's massacre (Killeen, Texas, cafeteria); WEAPONS: semi-automatic pistols: 24 dead; 24 injured

• 1978 - 1995 Serial Unabomber (mathematics prodigy, former mathematics professor); weapons bombs (16 bombs attributed to the bomber, transport, mailing, use of bombs); 3 dead; 23 injured

• April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing (Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); WEAPONS bombs truck bombs and building interior: 168+ dead; 680 injured

• April 20, 1999 Columbine High School massacre (Denver, Colorado); WEAPONS semi-automatic rifle, semi-automatic pistol, shotguns: 15 (including shooter) 24 injured

• July 27 – July 29, 1999 Atlanta shootings (killer’s home and at two Atlanta day trading firms, Stockbridge, Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia); WEAPONS hammer, Colt 1911A1 (.45), Glock 17 (9mm), H&R Revolver (.22), Raven MP-25 (.25): 12 dead (including killer); 13 injured

2000s (0-10)

• March 21, 2005 Red Lake shootings (Red Lake Indian Reservation, Red Lake, Minnesota); WEAPONS semi-automatic pistols and shotgun: 10 dead (including shooter) 5 injured

• March 10, 2009 Geneva County (Alabama) massacre; WEAPONS semi-automatic rifles, a revolver, and a shotgun: 11 (including shooter) dead; 6 injured

• April 3, 2009 Binghamton shootings (Binghamton, New York); WEAPONS semi-automatic pistol and revolver: 14 dead (including shooter) 4 injured

• November 5, 2009 Fort Hood shooting (U.S. Army major, psychiatrist in Fort Hood, Bell County, Texas); WEAPONS five-seven pistol Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver: 13 dead; 33 injured (including shooter)

2000s (10-15)

• July 20, 2012 Aurora mass shooting (Colorado cinema); WEAPONS semi-automatic rifle, a pistol, a shotgun: 12 dead; 70 injured.

• December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting; WEAPONS semi-automatic rifle, pistol: 28 dead (including shooter); 2 injured

• September 16, 2013 Washington Navy Yard mass shooting (Naval Sea Systems Command or NAVSEA headquarters, Southeast Washington, D.C.); WEAPONS semi-automatic pistols, 1 shotgun: 13 dead (including shooter); 8 injured

December 2, 2015 San Bernardino attack (Inland Regional Center, San Bernardino, California); WEAPONS semi-automatic rifles: dead 16 (including shooters); 24 injured.

2000s (16-17)

• June 12, 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (Orlando, Florida); WEAPONS semi-automatic rifle, pistol: 50 dead (including shooter) 53 injured

• April 16, 2017 Virginia Tech shooting (Blacksburg); WEAPONS: semi-automatic pistols: 33 dead (including shooter) 23 injured

• October 1, 2017 Las Vegas shooting (Route 91 Harvest music festival, Las Vegas Strip, Nevada); WEAPONS semi-automatic rifles, revolver: 59 (including shooter) dead; 851 injured (422 from gunfire)

• November 5, 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting (Texas); weapons: semi-automatic rifle: 27 dead (including shooter); 20 injured.

• May 18, 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting (Santa Fe, Texas); WEAPONS shotgun, revolver: 10 dead; 14 injured

2000s (2018)

• October 27, 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue mass shooting (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); WEAPONS AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle, (Colt AR-15 SP1), Three Glock .357 sig handguns: 11 dead; 7 injured

• November 7, 2018 Thousand Oaks shooting (California bar and grill); WEAPONS: semi-automatic pistol: dead 13 (including shooter); 25 injured.

America’s problem of violence will not be fixed with a mantra or incantation of thoughts and prayers.

Sources

News source

Los Angeles Times “Thousand Oaks shooting leaves 13 people dead, including gunman, and 18 injured”: “A former U.S. Marine machine gunner who may have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder burst into a Thousand Oaks bar packed with college students late Wednesday night, tossed a smoke bomb into the crowd and opened fire, authorities said. Eleven people were killed, in addition to a sheriff’s sergeant responding to the scene who was gunned down by the assailant minutes later.” November 7, 2018 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-thousand-oaks-20181107-story.html

In the list of massacres or mass killings, the cutoff is 10 or more deaths. the list is not exhaustive.

Wikipedia

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_O._Barton

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday_massacre_(homicide)

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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