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Originally posted by Shyla Wild
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It seems as though the world we live in continues to get crazier everyday. Walking into an elementary school and opening fire? Children...what kinds of coward shoots kids? Below is a list of the worst shootings in history. Out of these 37 shootings, a total of 27 (in Bold) are United States based.
But it gets better. The United States is the most armed nation in the World. 88.8 (2007) of the RESIDENTS are armed. That is more than 30% more than Serbia, Yemen, Switzerland, Cyprus, Saudia Arabia and Iraq who are the next most armed nations. Let's see....
This leads me to believe two things.
All I see is an irresponsible government. I keep tuning into these press conferences and hearing "It's about the families" or "Our thoughts and hearts go out to the families." BULLSHIT! A government that cared would ban firearms. The United States people have proven that they cannot handle that responsibility. Protect your people...that is what governments are suppose to do. Take away that right. I have heard so much propaganda coming from people protecting the 2nd Amendment. Just remember one thing....he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.
Fear Breeds Hate.
? Aug. 5, 2012: A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed more than two dozen people, including children.
? Aug. 5, 2012: Army veteran Wade Michael Page kills five men and one woman and wounds three other people, including a police officer, before taking his own life at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin outside Milwaukee.
? July 20, 2012: Twelve people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colo., movie theatre, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." James Holmes, a 24-year-old former graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged in the deaths.
? March 11, 2012: Sixteen Afghan villagers, including nine children, are killed during a predawn attack in which Army prosecutors have charged Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 39.
? July 22, 2011: Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 in Norway in twin attacks: a bombing in downtown Oslo and a shooting massacre at a youth camp outside the capital. The self-styled anti-Muslim militant admitted both attacks.
? April 9, 2011: Tristan van der Vlis, 24, fired more than 100 rounds from three guns in a suburban Dutch shopping mall, killing six people before turning one of the weapons on himself.
? Jan. 8, 2011: A gunman kills six people and wounds 13 others, including then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in a shooting spree outside a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Doctors say Jared Lee Loughner, who has been sentenced to life in prison, suffers from schizophrenia.
? Nov. 5, 2009: Thirteen soldiers and civilians were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a gunman walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and opened fire. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
? April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, enters the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips. He kills 12 people before killing himself as police close in.
? April 3, 2009: A 41-year-old man opened fire at an immigrant community centre in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers. Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant and a former student at the centre, killed himself as police rushed to the scene.
? March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people ? including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy ? across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.
? Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walks into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opens fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.
? Dec. 5, 2007: A 19-year-old man with a rifle opened fire at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb., killing eight people before taking his own life. Five people were wounded, two critically.
? Nov. 7, 2007: After revealing plans for his attack in YouTube postings, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen fires kills eight people at his high school in Tuusula, Finland.
? April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, kills 32 people and himself on Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.
? April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from school in Erfurt, Germany, kills 13 teachers, two former classmates and policeman, before committing suicide.
? April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school's library.
? April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, bursts into cafeteria in seaside resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20 people to death. Driving away, he kills 15 others. He was captured and imprisoned.
? March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, kills 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and then kills himself.
? Oct. 16, 1991: A deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby's Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. 20 others were wounded in the attack.
? June 18, 1990: James Edward Pough shoots people at random in a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla., killing 10 and wounding four, before killing himself.
? Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, bursts into Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encounters, killing nine and then himself.
? Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, kills 16 people in small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shoots himself dead after being cornered by police.
? July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of California State University, Fullerton, fatally shot seven fellow employees and wounded two others.
? Aug. 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who was about to be fired, shoots 14 people at a post office in Edmond, Okla. He then kills himself.
? July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, kills 21 people in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty.
? Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman opened fire from the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31.
But it gets better. The United States is the most armed nation in the World. 88.8 (2007) of the RESIDENTS are armed. That is more than 30% more than Serbia, Yemen, Switzerland, Cyprus, Saudia Arabia and Iraq who are the next most armed nations. Let's see....
- Iraq: Operation Desert Fox 1998, Iraqi Shia uprising (2nd Sadr uprising) 1999, Iraq War 2003-2011, (post U.S. withdrawal) 2011
- Yemen: 1994 civil war in Yemen, Insurgency in Yemen 2004, South Yemen insurgency 2009, Sa'dah insurgency 2004-2010
- Saudi Arabia: Gulf War 1990-1991, Insurgency in Saudi Arabia 1995, Sa'dah insurgency 2004-2010,
- Cyprus: Turkey invaded this country in 1974 without UN approval: it's been a mess since. The country is divided with the "green" line being patrolled by the UN.
- Serbia: Kosovo War 1945-1986 & 1998-1999, Croatian War of Independence 1991?1995, Bosnian War 1992-1995,
This leads me to believe two things.
- It's apparent that it must be more dangerous to live in the US than in these countries.
- The Swiss are a PRIME example of responsible gun ownership, something that lacks in the US.
All I see is an irresponsible government. I keep tuning into these press conferences and hearing "It's about the families" or "Our thoughts and hearts go out to the families." BULLSHIT! A government that cared would ban firearms. The United States people have proven that they cannot handle that responsibility. Protect your people...that is what governments are suppose to do. Take away that right. I have heard so much propaganda coming from people protecting the 2nd Amendment. Just remember one thing....he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.
Fear Breeds Hate.
Governments, like corporations, are amoral institutions. They don't care about right or wrong.
Change comes from people mobilizing and taking to the streets. Politicians respond to the winds of change, as it were.
As the late historian Howard Zinn pointed out: Government is not our friend. Government was and is set up to serve corporate power. And, again, change happens when people demand it.
This'll happen with guns. I'm not opposed to gun ownership. But I strongly believe in regulation and public health care (I think Americans desperately need a public health care system) and, too, we could cut military spending by, say, 10 percent and put that $100 billion -- yep! billion with a b -- into mental health.
I mean, we've so many problems. But, again, I have faith in people. People organizing. And people demanding change.
It happened in the 30s. When people pushed Roosevelt....
It happened in the 60s. When people, well, civilized our society.
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