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stopbush

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8. Right. They're being disarmed, the Soldiers begin to indiscriminately

Reply to Gomez163 (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 11:38 AM

Jun 2016

muder the Lakota, so the Lakota who still had weapons shot back trying to defend themselves and their families. What should they have done? Put down their arms to be shot down like clay pigeons?

That's what you call a battle? Then why is it known as a massacre?

On edit: the Hotchkiss guns mentioned in the article were Gattling-style weapons that could fire 68 rounds per minute. The US Cavalry had four of those weapons at Wounded Knee.

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The Wounded Knee Massacre [View all] stopbush Jun 2016 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Gomez163 Jun 2016 #1

Really? Did you read the account I posted? stopbush Jun 2016 #3

The warriors were fighting back. I read it. Gomez163 Jun 2016 #5

Right. They're being disarmed, the Soldiers begin to indiscriminately stopbush Jun 2016 #8

Maybe I'm wrong. The list of mass shootings is to promote a cause. Gun control. Gomez163 Jun 2016 #12

Because in the broader context, both incidents are examples stopbush Jun 2016 #17

This. NT metroins Jun 2016 #4

How many old people and children did you count at Antietam and Gettysburg? randr Jun 2016 #18

Why are we even talking about this today??? Gomez163 Jun 2016 #20

If you don't know your past you don't know your future randr Jun 2016 #21

"Santiago's death, though tragic, saved lives." Gomez163 Jun 2016 #22

How many women and children were killed BlueMTexpat Jun 2016 #23

You can add Tulsa, OK BumRushDaShow Jun 2016 #2

Wounded Knee was/is ...a .."Massacre" Stuart G Jun 2016 #6

Yeah. It was terrible. TheCowsCameHome Jun 2016 #7

WTF is your point? Maven Jun 2016 #9

That the media loves their little characterizations of horrible events stopbush Jun 2016 #14

Not to mention that it will incite some other asswipe try and kill more randr Jun 2016 #19

"Quick, look up the death count on mass shootings over the past stopbush Jun 2016 #27

What is the record for 1 hellfire missile? Downwinder Jun 2016 #10

Technically correct and not the only massacre rjsquirrel Jun 2016 #11

I wasn't alive back then. Aerows Jun 2016 #13

Er, no one is asking that history be rewritten. stopbush Jun 2016 #15

Thank you for that reminder of our white-washed history. Ms. Toad Jun 2016 #16

Genocide is NOT a one time historic perversion of the Nazis lunatica Jun 2016 #24

Also, don't forget the massacre of the Tuscarora JCMach1 Jun 2016 #25

I wondered about the massacres of union strikers too, and the 1898 Wilmington massacre zazen Jun 2016 #26