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Robb

(39,665 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 02:00 PM Jul 2012

Timeline: Mass shooting incidents in last 25 years

Chicago Tribune stuck this up, I thought it was interesting. Most recent in US were 2007 Va. Tech and 2002 D.C. snipers.

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March 11, 2009 - GERMANY - A 17-year-old gunman dressed in combat gear killed nine students and three teachers at a school near Stuttgart. He also killed one other person at a nearby clinic. He was later killed in a shoot-out with police. Two additional passers-by were killed and two policemen seriously injured, bringing the death toll to 16 including the gunman.

June 2, 2010 - BRITAIN - Gunman Derrick Bird opened fire on people in towns across the rural county of Cumbria. Twelve people were killed and 11 injured. Bird also killed himself.

April 9, 2011 - NETHERLANDS - Tristan van der Vlis opened fire in the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, killing six before turning the gun on himself.

July 22, 2011 - NORWAY - Police seize a gunman who killed 69 people at a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling political party, on the small, holiday island of Utoeya. Anders Behring Breivik is later charged with the killings, as well as with an earlier bombing in Oslo which killed eight people. The trial ended last month with Breivik saying that his bombing and shooting rampage was necessary to defend the country - prompting a walk-out by relatives of his victims.

December 13, 2011 - BELGIUM - Gunman Nordine Armani killed three people, including a 17-month-old toddler, wounding 121 in a central square in the eastern city of Liege, before shooting himself. The next day Belgian investigators found the body of a woman in warehouse used by the gunman raising the death toll, including the killer, to five....

Read More: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-shooting-denver-massbre86j0k6-20120720,0,6271812.story
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Timeline: Mass shooting incidents in last 25 years (Original Post) Robb Jul 2012 OP
Wasn't there one in Tucson recently? Ptah Jul 2012 #1
Shooting Congresswomen apparently doesn't count RC Jul 2012 #2
"Mass shooting" has to start somewhere. Robb Jul 2012 #3
 

RC

(25,592 posts)
2. Shooting Congresswomen apparently doesn't count
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 02:33 PM
Jul 2012

18 people shot and 6 killed wasn't enough to make the list.
Making the whole list suspect.

Robb

(39,665 posts)
3. "Mass shooting" has to start somewhere.
Reply to RC (Reply #2)
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 01:13 PM
Jul 2012

I think it's interest to see other countries' issues as well.

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