28 Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. History Fast Facts

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Events:
32 killed - April 16, 2007 - Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. A gunman, 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho, goes on a shooting spree killing 32 people in two locations and wounds an undetermined number of others on campus. The shooter, Seung-Hui Cho then commits suicide.

27 killed - December 14, 2012 - Sandy Hook Elementary School - Newtown, Connecticut. Adam Lanza, 20, guns down 20 children, ages six and seven, and six adults, school staff and faculty, before turning the gun on himself. Investigating police later find Nancy Lanza, Adam's mother, dead from a gunshot wound. The final count is 28 dead, including the shooter.

23 killed - October 16, 1991 - In Killeen, Texas, 35-year-old George Hennard crashes his pickup truck through the wall of a Lubys Cafeteria. After exiting the truck, Hennard shoots and kills 23 people. He then commits suicide.

21 killed - July 18, 1984 - In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Huberty, armed with a long-barreled Uzi, a pump-action shotgun and a handgun shoots and kills 21 adults and children at a local McDonalds. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty one hour after the rampage begins.

18 killed - August 1, 1966 - In Austin, Texas, Charles Joseph Whitman, a former U.S. Marine, kills 16 and wounds at least 30 while shooting from a University of Texas tower. Police officers Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy shoot and kill Whitman in the tower. Whitman had also killed his mother and wife earlier in the day.

14 killed - August 20, 1986 - Edmond, Oklahoma, part-time mail carrier, Patrick Henry Sherrill, armed with three handguns kills 14 postal workers in 10 minutes and then takes his own life with a bullet to the head.

13 killed - November 5, 2009 - Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 people and injures 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, during a shooting rampage. He is convicted and sentenced to death.

13 killed - April 3, 2009 - In Binghamton, New York, Jiverly Wong kills 13 people and injures four during a shooting at an immigrant community center. He then kills himself.

13 killed - April 20, 1999 - Columbine High School - Littleton, Colorado. 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold kill 12 fellow students and one teacher before committing suicide in the school library.

13 killed - February 18, 1983 - Three men enter the Wah Mee gambling and social club in Seattle, rob the 14 occupants and then shoot each in the head, killing 13. Two of the men, Kwan Fai Mak and Benjamin Ng, are convicted of murder in August 1983. Both are serving life in prison. The third, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, after years on the run in Canada, is eventually convicted of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault. He is deported to Hong Kong in 2014.

13 killed - September 25, 1982 - In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 40-year-old George Banks, a prison guard, kills 13 people including five of his own children. In September 2011, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns his death sentence stating that Banks is mentally incompetent.

13 killed - September 5, 1949 - In Camden, New Jersey, 28-year-old Howard Unruh, a veteran of World War II, shoots and kills 13 people as he walks down Camden's 32nd Street. His weapon of choice is a German-crafted Luger pistol. He is found insane and is committed to a state mental institution. He dies at the age of 88.

12 killed - September 16, 2013 - Shots are fired inside the Washington Navy Yard killing 12. The shooter, identified as Aaron Alexis, 34, is also killed.

12 killed - July 20, 2012 - Twelve people are killed and 58 are wounded in a shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater screening of the new Batman film. James E. Holmes, 24, is taken into custody outside of the movie theater. The gunman, dressed head-to-toe in protective tactical gear, set off two devices of some kind before spraying the theater with bullets from an AR-15 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and at least one of two .40-caliber handguns police recovered at the scene.

12 killed - July 29, 1999 - In Atlanta, 44-year-old Mark Barton kills his wife and two children at his home. He then opens fire in two different brokerage houses killing nine people and wounding 12. He later kills himself.

10 killed - March 10, 2009 - In Alabama, Michael McLendon of Kinston, kills 10 and himself. The dead include his mother, grandparents, aunt and uncle.

9 killed - October 1, 2015 - Gunman Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer shoots and kills nine people, injuring another nine, at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. The shooter dies after a gun battle with police at the college. Six weapons were recovered at the school; another seven were recovered at Harper-Mercer's home.

9 killed - June 17, 2015 - Dylann Roof, 21, shoots and kills nine people inside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston, South Carolina. Eight die at the scene; a ninth dies at a hospital. Roof is arrested the following day; according to police, he confesses and tells investigators he wanted to start a race war.

9 killed - March 21, 2005 - Red Lake High School, Red Lake, Minnesota. 16-year-old Jeff Weise kills his grandfather and another adult, five students, a teacher and a security officer. He then kills himself.

9 killed - June 18, 1990 - In Jacksonville, Florida, 42-year-old James Pough, angry about his car being repossessed, opens fire at a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office, killing nine people. Pough takes his own life.

8 killed - October 12, 2011 - Eight people are killed during a shooting at the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, California. The suspect, Scott Evans Dekraai, 41, of Huntington Beach, is arrested without incident as he is trying to leave the scene. The eight dead include Dekraai's ex-wife, Michelle Fournier, 48. He was armed with three guns -- a 9 mm Springfield, a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum, and a Heckler & Koch .45 -- and was wearing body armor during the shooting rampage.

8 killed - August 3, 2010 - Manchester, Connecticut - Omar Thornton kills eight co-workers at Hartford Distributors before turning the gun on himself. Thornton had been asked to resign for stealing and selling alcoholic beverages.

8 killed - January 19, 2010 - Christopher Speight, 39, kills eight people at a house in Appomattox, Virginia. He surrenders to police at the scene the next morning. February 2013, he is sentenced to five life terms plus 18 years.

8 killed - March 29, 2009 - In Carthage, North Carolina, 45-year-old Robert Stewart kills a nurse and seven elderly patients at a nursing home. In May, the Moore County district attorney announces she will seek the death penalty. On September 3, 2011, a jury finds Stewart guilty of second-degree murder. Stewart is sentenced to 141 to 179 years in prison.

8 killed - December 5, 2007 - In Omaha, Nebraska, 19-year-old Robert Hawkins goes to an area mall and kills eight shoppers before killing himself.

8 killed - July 1, 1993 - In San Francisco, 55-year-old Gian Luigi Ferri kills eight people in a law office and then kills himself.

8 killed - September 14, 1989 - In Louisville, Kentucky, 47-year-old Joseph Wesbecker armed with a AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle, two MAC-11 semiautomatic pistols, a .38 caliber handgun, a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol and a bayonet kills eight co-workers at Standard Gravure Corporation and then kills himself. He had been placed on disability leave from his job due to mental problems.

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8 killed - August 20, 1982 - In Miami, 51-year-old history teacher Carl Robert Brown, angry about a repair bill and armed with a shotgun, kills eight people at a machine shop. He flees by bicycle, but is shot in the back by a witness who pursued him. He was on leave from school for psychological treatment.

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Sex for Sport: Is Collecting “Flags” Unhealthy?

reposted from (Naughty Normand).

Dear Mark,

…We met at the hostel in Kingston a few months back and spoke a little. A while later I checked your website.

To be totally honest I was quite saddened. I felt that the vast majority of the content was, for want of a better word, ignorant and negative. And promoting having sex with loose women around the world and seeing them as flags or notches that you collect and that this was the greatest reason and thing to achieve when travelling.

…I feel guys who are obsessed with sex should just stay where they come from and not travel around the world with Viagra eyes, solely focused on trying to fuck a different woman in each place that they go and not being aware or respectful of other cultures or realizing all of the other wonderful things they could learn and experience when travelling.

…I’m presuming that a lot of the guys that follow your website, if there were invited into a family’s house and there were women about, in the back of their mind they’d be planning how to sleep with the guys daughter, wife or both at the same time to have an ‘awesome’ story to share on the web or down the pub with other like-minded pricks. Not appreciating that someone is actually trusting you and trying to show you a bit of their life that is different from yours and you could learn something from.

…You are clearly a talented, ambitious, and hard-working guy, I just felt your efforts were going to waste and even helping to create more negativity.

Peace & love from Charlotteville, Tobago……Colin

The irksome, moralizing tone of the email stalled my reply, but I’ve reflected on it since and I’m going to answer Colin now. Before I get to the flag collecting, there’s a few other points I’d like to discuss.

Truth Trumps Feelings here.

Firstly, I would say this site is the opposite from ‘ignorant’. This site aims to educate men and deals with cold truths—unlike the majority of politically correct rubbish out there. If that seems ‘negative’ to you and others, so be it. I’ve always encouraged men to learn the local language and experience all a country has to offer, but there’s a million feel-good bullshit travel sites for that. But if guys know if they want to get laid or get high, there’s Naughty Nomad.

Moving on.

When it comes to sex, screw moral relatively.

As for Colin’s family home scenario, I’m sure there are men out there so unscrupulous that they would probably try to fuck the man’s wife, but I’m not one of them. Nor is anybody I associate with. But c’mon, Colin, the daughter is fair game! What if she was, like, super hot? She’s probably in her room flicking the bean over this handsome stranger who has come to stay.

The absolute best way to get intimate with another culture is by sleeping with the local women. I’m not saying you take pictures and high-five her dad afterwards, but if it’s discrete and consensual (I’m thinking a ‘nature walk’), it’s win-win! There’s nothing wrong with sexual desire and seeing women as women. Fuck ‘respecting culture’ or locals law. Sex is sex and I’ve left smiles from Oman to Oslo.

Is Collecting Flags Unhealthy?

It depends. Personally, I’ve never traveled for the sole purpose of “getting a flag” by sleeping with a local. I don’t encourage others to do so, either. If that’s somebody’s only reason for travelling, I think that’s pathetic and most certainly unhealthy. My goal is to travel every country in the world. Sex just comes with the territory.

Did I objectify women as merely flags along the way?

Hell, yes. I was practically the spokesperson for ‘flagging’ at one point. In the past, I’ve even turned down women who were 8s to go for 6s just because they were new flags!

During the mid-twenties, my flag count skyrocketed. I’d hit new milestones every year… 40, 50, 60. At first, this felt good. I had the approval of my peers. I earned a reputation, status, and even a small degree of fame from men the world over.

At the age of 26, I was at the top of my game and reached mastery, but eventually, I felt the need to retire.

There is no prize for this competition.

Like many men who count ‘notches’ or ‘lays’, I started to get little satisfaction from a new flag. It no longer sated my ego or brought happiness. It didn’t fill the void I hoped it would.

Like so many young men of my generation, I grew up thinking the best way to express my masculinity was through sport-fucking and sexual conquest. And like it or not, this kind of behavior actually gains respect among the men of today—many of whom could only fantasize about such a lifestyle. With no wars to fight or food to hunt, there’s not much else to do but play being men. Some play football, some play video games, and some play the mating game.

After reading The Way of Men, I finally released there was a little more to being a man than sport-fucking. I matured a little. I gave up counting. Last year, I only slept with one new nationality and I couldn’t care less. I’ve yielded greater well-being from developing long-term relationships.

That said…

I believe that every young man needs to go through a period of sexual rampage to realize that pussy isn’t everything.

Counting flagging and notches is a natural by-product of that. It’s a stage of development on the way to self-actualization.

If a man refuses to do this because of ideology,or he simply lacks the skills to do so, I believe he will never be fully content in later relationships and always be wondering ‘what if’.

So flag away, lads! It’s harmless fun, I say.

Just be aware that your sex life is not a deposit account and won’t bring you happiness further down the line.

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