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In reply to the discussion: Why we must call Dylann Roof a terrorist [View all]niyad
(132,129 posts)29. which of the 14 are missing from this list?
Killeen, Texas, October 16, 1991: A man shoots dead 23 people in a restaurant and then kills himself.
Jonesboro, Arkansas, March 28, 1998: Two boys aged 11 and 13 kill four students and a teacher after pulling a fire alarm and opening fire from nearby woods when people streamed out of their school. Ten other children were hurt.
Littleton, Colorado, April 20, 1999: Two teenaged boys shoot and kill 12 fellow classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School before killing themselves.
Atlanta, Georgia, July 29, 1999: A stock market trader goes on a day-long shooting rampage, killing 12 people, including his wife and two children, before taking his own life.
View gallery Red Lake, Minnesota, March 21, 2005: A teenaged boy kills two people at his grandfathers home on an Indian reservation and then goes to his local high school where he kills seven others before committing suicide.
Blacksburg, Virginia, April 16, 2007: A student goes on a rampage at Virginia Tech University, killing 32 people before committing suicide.
Covina, California, December 24, 2008: A man dressed in a Santa Claus suit opens fire at a family party and then sets fire to the house. Nine people are killed. The gunman commits suicide.
Binghamton, New York, April 3, 2009. A gunman shoots dead 13 people at a civic center for immigrants.
Fort Hood, Texas, November 5, 2009. US army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan opens fire at his military base, killing 13 people and wounding 42, before being overcome by police.
View gallery Oikos, California, April 2, 2012: A male nursing student methodically kills seven people at a Christian university.
Aurora, Colorado, July 20, 2012: A man kills 12 people when he opens fire at a movie theater showing a late-night premiere of a Batman film in a suburb of Denver.
Oak Creek, Wisconsin, August 5, 2012: A white supremacist and US army veteran fatally shoots six people and wounds four others at a Sikh temple before taking his own life.
Newtown, Connecticut, December 14 2012: A young man kills 26 people, including 20 children at Sandy Hook elementary school. He also fatally shoots his mother. He commits suicide.
Miami, Florida, July 26, 2013: A gunman kills six people in a shooting rampage at an apartment building, taking two people hostage before being killed by police after a lengthy standoff.
Washington DC, September 16, 2013: At least 12 people die in a mass shooting at a naval base in Washington DC, with the gunman being fatally shot by police.
Charleston, South Carolina, June 17, 2015: A white gunman kills at least nine people at a historic black church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Roof, 21, believed to be a white supremacist, is arrested the next day.
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Gee. A blue linky to one of your own posts. Where have I seen that before?
cherokeeprogressive
Jun 2015
#33
"Pedantic labeling" is how our very history is recorded -and it matters greatly.....
bettyellen
Jun 2015
#17
It isn't pedantic, nor does it detract from the issue, if anything, it explains it.
Behind the Aegis
Jun 2015
#23
Yes,and maybe we should wake up tothefact that the word"terrorism" actually is used as a propaganda
kath
Jun 2015
#30
Roof told the people who weren't shot to tell others for the explicit REASON to terrorize other...
uponit7771
Jun 2015
#13