25 Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. History (updated)

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Note 2/12/17 - I've created a new list you can find here so I'm going to lock this one and cast it loose. I'll link to it in the new thread.

-Krispos42, Group Host


Note: the original link went dead a few months ago. It was a copy of a CNN story. This seems to be the same one, only updated.

I can't do it now, but I'll try to update my analysis as well, hopefully over the weekend.

-K

[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE](CNN) —Here is a list of the 28 deadliest single day mass shootings in U.S. hisory from 1949 to the present. If the shooter was killed or committed suicide during the incident that death is not included in the total.

Timeline: 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 committed suicide.

27 killed - December 14, 2012 - Sandy Hook Elementary School - Newtown, Connecticut. Adam Lanza, 20, guns down 20 children, ages 6 and 7, 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.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/us/20-deadliest-mass-shootings-in-u-s-history-fast-facts/

So let's look at this. I'll use the 1993 Federal AWB definition of "assault weapon" for consistency.

#1: Committed with non-assault weapon handguns

#2: Committed with non-assault weapon rifle in a state that's had an AWB since 1993

#3: Committed with non-assault weapon handguns

#4: Committed with 2 non-assault weapon guns and rifle that may have been an assault weapon

#5: Committed with 7 non-assault-weapon handguns

#6: Committed with 2 non-assault-weapon handguns

#7: Committed with a non-assault weapon handgun

#8: Committed with a non-assault-weapon pistol and a non-assault weapon rifle in a state with an AWB since 1994

#9: Committed with one assault-weapon pistol, a non-assault weapon rifle, and two non-assault-weapon shotguns during the Federal AWB.

#10: Committed with one rifle that could be an assault weapon.

#11: Committed with a non-assault-weapon handgun

#12: Committed with a non-assault-weapon shotgun. The perp took a non-assault-weapon handgun from a guard that he killed.

#13: Committed with a non-assault-weapon shotgun, a non-assault-weapon handgun, and one rifle that could be an assault weapon.

#14: Committed with 4 non-assault-weapon pistols and a hammer. Occurred during the Federal AWB.

#15: Committed with one rifle that could be an assault weapon, a non-assault weapon rifle, an undescribed shotgun, and a non-assault-weapon handgun.

#16: Committed with a non-assault-weapon shotgun and two non-assault-weapon pistols

#17: Committed with a non-assault-weapon rifle and a non-assault-weapon handgun

#18: Committed with 3 non-assault-weapon handguns in a state with an AWB in place since 1989

#19: Committed with 2 non-assault-weapon handguns in a state with an AWB in place since 1993

#20: Committed with an unknown rifle.

#21: Committed with a non-assault-weapon shotgun and two non-assault-weapon handguns

#22: Committed with one rifle that may have been an assault weapon.

#23: Committed with one assault-weapon pistol and a non-assault-weapon pistol.

#24: Committed with one rifle that may have been an assault weapon. Perp carried with him but did not use 3 non-assault-weapon pistols, and committed suicide with 4th. This may have occurred shortly before or shortly after California instituted its AWB.

#25: Committed with a non-assault-weapon shotgun.




So, again... is the overriding problem of the age that rifles and shotguns have pistol grips? That they have pistol grips AND folding or telescoping stocks?