"In my heart, I knew what the back room meant..."

[Playinghardball]

Found on the Obamadiary

[baldguy]

1. Gun owners MUST answer: is having your weapon worth causing so much suffering?

[AtheistCrusader]

8. My weapons didn't cause this.

It's an important and poignant clip though. I'm all for keeping guns out of the hands of various disqualified individuals. People need to hear the families of the victims of this, and other attacks. I have no complaint about that.

[baldguy]

11. The same laws which allowed you to purchase firearms allowed Adam Lanza to get his.

There's a river in Egypt just for you.

[AtheistCrusader]

12. Any firearms?

Because you know there are legitimate life-saving purposes for some firearms in some contexts right?

Adam Lanza was denied* his purchase attempt, actually. I am not. I can walk into any gun store in my home state and buy whatever I like at any time (short of fully automatic weapons, which are banned state-wide), and I pay in the form of a fee, full state and FBI background check, and state and FBI fingerprint check every 6 years for the privilege. (And I support all states having that check, PLUS registration)

So, don't lay that shit at 'all gun owner's' feet.


*http://www.pressherald.com/news/adam-lanza-attempted-failed-to-purchase-his-own-gun-sources-say_2012-12-16.html

[MichiganVote]

14. Didn't stop it either.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. Especially not being three time zones away.

[MichiganVote]

16. School shootings have happened in every time zone. So which one was stopped

by the weapons of citizens?

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Only a couple.

Kind of hard for law abiding citizens to do anything about it with an exclusion zone that precludes the presence of law abiding citizens with firearms.

(You realize police officers are both citizens (usually) and civilians. Right?)

[MichiganVote]

19. Really?

Non accidental school homicides in the US. (Suicidal events deleted) 6 events in bold for Police / citizen action with a weapon that halted a shooting event. Long list-few weapons halted any attackes
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The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764. Four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children. No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

November 2, 1853: Louisville, Kentucky, Student Matthew Ward bought a pistol in the morning, and killed the schoolmaster as revenge for what Ward thought was excessive punishment of his brother the day before. No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 16, 1867: Knights Ferry, California, A Mr. McGinnis was shot and killed by his daughter's teacher after McGinnis threatened the teacher for expelling his daughter from school. When McGinnis's son learned of this, he went to the school and killed the teacher.[4] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

December 22, 1868: Chattanooga, Tennessee, A boy who refused to be whipped by his teacher, left the school. The next day he returned with his brother and a friend for revenge. Not finding the teacher at the school, they continued to his house, where a gun battle took place and three died. Only the brother survived.[6] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

June 23, 1871: Lagrange, Indiana, Miss Anna Dwight was shot to death in front of her students by a rejected suitor.[7] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

March 9, 1873: Salisbury, Maryland, After school, the teacher Miss Shockley was shot by the schoolmaster Mr. Hall. He ran out and she died instantly. That night, Hall threw himself under a train, completing the incident as a murder-suicide.[8] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 24, 1879: Lancaster, New York, Frank Shugart, a telegraph operator, shot and severely injured Mr. Carr, Superintendent of the stables at a girls' school.[11] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

June 12, 1887: Cleveland, Tennessee, Will Guess went to the school and fatally shot Miss Irene Fann, his little sister's teacher, for whipping her the day before.[14] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

June 13, 1889: New Brunswick, New Jersey, Charles Crawford, upset over an argument with a school Trustee, went up to the window and fired a pistol into a crowded school room. The bullet lodged in the wall just above the teacher's head.[15] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

April 24, 1890: Brazil, Indiana, While the pupils of the Meridian Street School were at play, Ben Corbery drew a revolver and shot Cora Brubach, aged 10, seriously wounding her in the face. The reason for the assault was that the girl had informed the teacher of Ben's misconduct.[16] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 20, 1891: Syracuse, New York, In an abusive rage, Wilber F. Baker went to the Bassett Street School where his wife was teaching, entered the classroom and shot her five times, killing her. He was caught by police after a 40 mile chase.[18] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

March 30, 1891: Liberty, Mississippi, During a school exhibition and concert given at the Parson Hill schoolhouse, just as the performances were starting in front of a large mixed audience of black people and white people, crowded with teachers, pupils, and spectators, a double barreled shotgun, heavily charged with shot, was fired into the assemblage by an unknown assailant. 14 people were wounded, some seriously.[19] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

April 9, 1891: Newburgh, New York, James Ferguson, 70, fired a shotgun at a group of students in the playground of St. Mary's Parochial School, causing minor injuries to several of the students.[20] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

October 10, 1892: At Kansas University, two students, E. Higgins and Jack Craycroft, were shot as they were walking back to their dorm rooms from practicing football at the athletic field by a double barreled shotgun as they passed the home of law student, Fred Basset. Basset said they were warned not to trespass on his farm as students so frequently did.[21] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

March 26, 1893: Plain Dealing, Louisiana, During an evening school dance at Plain Dealing High School, a fight broke out. When the smoke cleared; two were shot dead, two more were fatally wounded, and the high school's Professor Johnson was shot in the arm.[22] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

December 28, 1898: Sioux City, Iowa, Teacher, May Thomas was lured out of the schoolhouse by Harry Garvey who was devoted to her, but she had refused his further attentions. He then pulled a revolver out and shot her dead, then killed himself.[25] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.


There are very seldom reports of mass or multiple school shootings during the first three decades of the 20th Century, with the three most violent attacks on schools involving either arson or explosions.

May 12, 1900: Danbury, Connecticut, After being repeatedly refused by Teacher Lillian Owen, Herbert Horton went to the schoolhouse and pleaded one last time. He then pulled out a revolver and demanded entry or he would kill himself. Miss Owen and pupils barricaded the door. Horton then shot himself in the chest.[26] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

September 3, 1900: Boise, Idaho, During an exciting school board committee elections, H.C. Branstetter attempted to murder H. B. Eastman. One shot was fired, but the gun was struck down and the weapon was snatched from Bransetter before he could shoot again.[27] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

February 26, 1902: Camargo, Illinois, Teacher Fletcher R. Barnett shot and killed another teacher, Eva C. Wiseman, in front of her class at a school. After shooting at a pupil who came to help Miss Wiseman and wounding himself in a failed suicide attempt, he waited in the classroom until a group of farmers came to lynch him. He then ran out of the school building, grabbed a shotgun from one of the farmers and shot himself, before running away and leaping into a well where he finally drowned. The incident was likely sparked by Wiseman's refusal to marry Barnett.[28] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

July 21, 1903: Jackson, Kentucky, at the Cave Run School, James Barrett and Mack Howard fought a duel with pistols over a card game killing each other. Another student James Vires, age 12, was also found shot in the abdomen while sitting at his desk.[30] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

April 6, 1904: Chicago, Illinois, Two students who have been fighting over a girl for the better part of a year, clashing every time they crossed paths. Until one fight, where Henry Schaze threw 16-year-old Paul Jelick to the ground, drew a revolver, and shot Paul dead.[32] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

September 27, 1904: Mount Ayr, Iowa, Two school directors got into a heated discussion over school business. When Director Samuel Egly threatened Director William Kling with an ax, Kling shot Egly through the heart, killing him.[33] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

November 16, 1904: Riverside, California, at the Indian School, a gun fight broke out between pupils. Charles Colby was hit in the head with a pistol, then returned fire killing Tom Bucanoros and fatally wounding Fred Smith.[34]


December 16, 1904: Magee, Mississippi, E. E. Mangum was shot through the head and killed by the principal of the high school, Professor J. E. Woodward. Mangum remonstrated with Woodward because he had administered a severe whipping to Mangum's 15-year-old son. Mangum finally lost his temper and shot Woodward through the wrist. Woodward was handed a pistol by a bystander and shot Mangum through the head.[35]

February 9, 1905: Colusa, California, After being suspended from school, Elmer Hildreth, 17 yrs old student, confronted a school trustee, William Ingrim. They entered into a heated arguement, when the trustee grabbed an ax and went after Hildreth. Hildreth ordered him to stop, but the trustee kept coming, so the schoolboy shot him in the stomach.[36]

May 18, 1906: Boston, Massachusetts, George M. DeWolfe age 18, shot fellow graduate Lillian Thoroughgood age 17, then shot and killed himself in the head, during the closing ceremonies of the Cambridge Commercial College. The bullet was stopped from injuring Lillian by the locket she wore, but her clothes got singed.[38] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

October 10, 1906: Cleveland, Ohio, In front of 60 students, Harry Smith shot and killed 22-year-old teacher Mary Shepard at South Euclid School after she had rejected him. Smith escaped and committed suicide in a barn near his home two hours later.[40] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

March 23, 1907: Carmi, Illinois, George Nicholson shot and killed John Kurd at a schoolhouse during a school rehearsal. The motive for the shooting was Kurd making a disparaging remark about Nicholson's daughter during her recital.[41] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

March 11, 1908: Boston, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Bailey Hardee was shot to death by Sarah Chamberlain Weed at the Laurens School, a finishing school in Boston. Weed then turned the gun on herself and committed suicide.[43] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

April 15, 1908: Asheville, North Carolina, Dr. C.O. Swinney shot and fatally wounded his 16-year-old daughter Nellie in a reception room at Normal and Collegiate Institute. He then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.[45] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

December 23, 1908: New York City, New York, Van Dwight Sheldon, an engineering student at New York University was staying in the Dean's Manor, with his older cousin and Dean of the Engineering College, Dean Snow. A burglar broke into the cellar of the home when Sheldon confronted him. The burglar shot Sheldon in the abdomen, killing him, and escaped after a chase.[46 No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 12, 1909: San Francisco, California, 10-year-old Dorothy Malakanoff was shot and killed by 49-year-old Demetri Tereaschinko as she arrived at her school in San Francisco. Tereaschinko then shot himself in a failed suicide attempt. Tereaschinko was reportedly upset that Malakanoff refused to elope with him.[47] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

August 18, 1909: Bakersfield, California, A group of six young men after dove hunting, deliberately shot out the glass in the doors and windows of the Fruitvale School, then shot at the nearby residence of A. J. Hunter, narrowly missing several children in the rear yard.[50] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

September 11, 1909: Gravette, Arkansas, John Butram, an unruly student at the Bear Hollow School announced to his fellow students that school is canceled. The teacher, A.T. Kelly insisted that the day's lesson was not over. Butram then drew a knife on his teacher, so the teacher drew his gun and shot him.[51]


January 12, 1910: New York City, New York, "A black bearded maniac drew an automatic pistol" and fired five shots into a crowd of the Harlem School boys. The kids were taunting him, so he shot into the crowd of children. Robert Lomas, age 6, was hit in the heart and died instantly, Arthur Shively also age 6 was shot through the left lung and critically wounded.[53] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

March 10, 1910: Ione, California, At the reform school, Preston School of Industry, students Albert Brown and Eugene Griffin tried to escape as they stole a revolver from the school's bakery shop. They then shot at Captain William H. White as he was in pursuit. No one was hurt, but the two boys were no longer welcome at the school and were sent to the penitentiary.[54] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

August 16, 1910: Lexington, Kentucky, A general fight broke out during school elections where Lewis Napier was shot and killed and several others hurt. Several were arrested.[55] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 10, 1912: Warrenville, Illinois, Sylvester E. Adams shot and killed teacher Edith Smith after she rejected his advances. Adams then shot and killed himself. The incident took place in a schoolhouse after the students had been dismissed for the day.[57] A month later the students refused to go back to the school saying it was haunted by ghosts, so the little schoolhouse was torn down and a new one was built.[58] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 31, 1912: San Francisco, California, In a brawl between the white and Chinese students at the Oriental School, James Kane was shot dead.[59] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

January 17, 1913: Honolulu, Hawaii, While the children in the schoolhouse were quietly seated, Manuel Fernandez entered the classroom and shot his wife, the teacher, Johanna Fernandez killing her with a shotgun. Seven of the children were hit by the scattering buckshot, dangerously wounding one. He then shot and killed himself. Jealousy is quoted as the motive.[60] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

March 27, 1919: Lodi Township, Michigan, Teacher Irma Caler was shot and killed in her classroom at Rentschler school by 19-year-old Robert Warner, apparently because she had rejected his advances.[61] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

August 8, 1919: San Francisco, California, An assistant in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California was distraught over his inability to obtain a position, shot Professor Edmond O'Neill, and Professor Dr. J. H. Hildebrand in the administration offices of Gilman Hall, then went to shoot Vice President May L. Cheney but only managed to hit her hair braid before being subdued.[62] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

April 2, 1921: Syracuse, New York, Professor Holmes Beckwith shot and killed dean J. Herman Wharton in his office at Syracuse University before committing suicide.[64] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 18, 1927: Bath, Michigan, Bath School Disaster School treasurer Andrew Kehoe, after killing his wife and destroying his house and farm, blew up the Bath Consolidated School by detonating dynamite in the basement of the school, killing 45 people, mostly children. He then pulled up to the school in his car, then set off a bomb, killing himself and four others. This is the deadliest mass murder at a school in United States history and the world's first suicide bombing.[66] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 22, 1930: Ringe, Minnesota, Margaret Wegman, 20-year-old teacher at the local rural school, was shot and killed in the school by 24-year-old Douglas Petersen.[68] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

February 15, 1933: Downey, California, Dr. Vernon Blythe shot and killed his wife Eleanor, as well as his 8-year old son Robert at Gallatin grammar school and committed suicide after firing three more shots at his other son Vernon. His wife, who had been a teacher at the school, had filed for divorce the week before.[70] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 2, 1934: Harlan, Iowa, Margaret Graves, 23, school teacher at Monroe School No. 2, was shot to death in front of her 20 students by former suitor Herman Seick, 28. Seick then took his own life in the classroom.[71] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

September 14, 1934: Gill, Massachusetts, Headmaster Elliott Speer was murdered by a shotgun blast through the window of his study at Northfield Mount Hermon School. The crime was never solved.[72] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

March 27, 1935: Medora, North Dakota, Emily Hartl, 24-year-old teacher at the Manlon school northwest of Medora, was shot and killed at the school by 28-year-old Harry McGill, a former suitor.[73]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 7, 1935: Irvington, New York, Dr. Paul Kyle, head of the Kyle School for Boys, was found shot to death in the school, just before classes were to begin for the day.[74] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

December 12, 1935: New York City, New York, Victor Koussow, a Russian laboratory worker at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, shot Prof. Arthur Taylor Rowe, Prof. Paul B. Wiberg, and wounded Dr. William H. Crawford at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before committing suicide.[75] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

April 27, 1936: Lincoln, Nebraska, Prof. John Weller shot and wounded Prof. Harry Kurz in a corridor of the University of Nebraska, apparently because of his impending dismissal at the end of the semester. After shooting Kurz Weller tried to escape, but was surrounded by police on the campus, whereupon he killed himself with a shot in the chest.[76] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

June 4, 1936: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Wesley Clow shot and killed his Lehigh University English instructor, C. Wesley Phy. Clow went to Phy's office and demanded that Phy change his grade to a passing mark. Clow committed suicide after shooting Phy.[77] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

September 24, 1937: Toledo, Ohio, 12-year-old Robert Snyder shot and wounded his principal, June Mapes, in her office at Arlington public school when she declined his request to call a classmate. He then fled the school grounds and shot and wounded himself.[79]
No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 6, 1940: South Pasadena, California, After being removed as principal of South Pasadena Junior High School, Vieling Spencer shot six school officials, killing five, before attempting to commit suicide by shooting himself in the neck.[80][81] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 23, 1940: New York City, New York, Infuriated by a grievance, Matthew Gillespie, 62-year-old janitor at the Dwight School for Girls, shot and critically wounded Mrs. Marshall Coxe, secretary of the junior school.[82]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

July 4, 1940: Valhalla, New York, Angered by the refusal of his daughter, Melba, 15, to leave a boarding school and return to his home, Joseph Moshell, 47, visited the school and shot and killed the girl.[83] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shooting.

September 12, 1940: Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 29-year-old teacher Carolyn Dellamea is shot to death inside her third grade classroom by 35-year-old William Kuhns. Kuhns then shot himself in the chest in a failed suicide attempt. Kuhns had reportedly been courting Dellamea for over a year but the relationship was ended when Dellamea discovered that Kuhns was already married.[84][85]
No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

October 2, 1942: New York City, New York, Irwin Goodman, 36-year-old mathematics teacher at William J. Gaynor Junior High School, was shot and killed in the school corridor by a youth.[86][87]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

June 26, 1946: Brooklyn, New York, A 15-year-old schoolboy who balked at turning over his pocket money to a gang of seven youths was shot in the chest in the basement of the Public School 147 annex of the Brooklyn High School for Automotive Trades.[89] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 5, 1947: Madill, Oklahoma, 1st grade teacher Jessie Laird, 40, was shot to death in her classroom, during recess by her estranged husband, Ellis Laird, 62. Laird then fatally shot himself.[91] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

November 13, 1949: Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University freshman James Heer grabbed a .45 caliber handgun from the room of a Delta Tau Delta fraternity brother and shot and killed his fraternity brother Jack McKeown, 21, an Ohio State senior.[95] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

April 25, 1950: Peru, Nebraska, Dr. William Nicholas, 48, president of Peru State College and Dr. Paul Maxwell, 56, education department head, were shot to death at their desks by Dr. Barney Baker, 54-year-old psychology professor. Baker was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot at his home on campus.[96] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

July 22, 1950: New York City, New York, A 16-year-old boy was shot in the wrist and abdomen at the Public School 141 dance during an argument with a former classmate.[97] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

March 12, 1951: Union Mills, North Carolina, Professor W. E. Sweatt, superintendent and teacher at the Alexander School, was shot to death by students Billy Ray Powell, 16, and Hugh Justice, 19. The assailants had been reprimanded by Sweatt, and they waited for him as he locked his office door.[98] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

June 4, 1951: New York City, New York, Carl Arch, a 50-year-old intruder to a girl's gym class, was shot and killed by a police officer at Manhattan's Central Commercial High School.[99]

November 27, 1951: New York City, New York, David Brooks, a 15-year-old student, was fatally shot as fellow pupils looked on in a grade school.[100] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

April 9, 1952: New York City, New York, A 15-year-old boarding school student shot a dean rather than relinquish pin-up pictures of girls in bathing suits.[101] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

July 14, 1952: New York City, New York, Bayard Peakes walked into the offices of the American Physical Society (APS) at Columbia University and shot and killed secretary Eileen Fahey with a .22 caliber pistol. Peakes was reportedly upset that the APS had rejected a pamphlet he had written.[102] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

September 3, 1952: Lawrenceville, Illinois, After Georgine Lyon, 25, ended her engagement with Charles Petrach, Petrach shot and killed Lyon in a classroom at Lawrenceville High School where she worked as a librarian.[103] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 11, 1955: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, After some of his dormmates urinated on his mattress, Bob Bechtel, a 20-year-old student at Swarthmore College, returned to his dorm with a shotgun and used it to shoot and kill fellow student Holmes Strozier.[109]
No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 4, 1956: Prince George's County, Maryland, 15-year-old student Billy Prevatte fatally shot one teacher and injured two others at Maryland Park Junior High School after he had been reprimanded from the school.[110] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

October 20, 1956: New York City, New York, A Booker T. Washington Junior High School student was wounded in the forearm by another student armed with a home-made weapon.[111] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

October 2, 1957: New York City, New York, A 16-year old student was shot in the leg by a 15-year old classmate at a city high school.[112] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

March 4, 1958: New York City, New York, A 17-year-old student shot a boy in the Manual Training High School.[113] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 1, 1958: Massapequa, New York, A 15-year-old high Massapequa High School freshman was shot and killed by a classmate in a washroom.[114] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

September 24, 1959: New York City, New York, Twenty-seven men and boys and an arsenal were seized in the Bronx as the police headed off a gang war resulting from the fatal shooting of a teenager at Morris High School.[115] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 2, 1960: Hartford City, Indiana, Principal Leonard Redden shot and killed two teachers with a shotgun at William Reed Elementary School before fleeing into a remote forest, where he committed suicide.[116] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

March 30, 1960: Alice, Texas, Donna Dvorak, 14, brought a .22 target pistol to Dubose Junior High School, and fatally shot Bobby Whitford, 15, in their 9th grade science class. Dvorak believed Whitford posed a threat to one of her girlfriends.[117] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

June 7, 1960: Blaine, Minnesota, Lester Betts, a 40-year-old mail-carrier, walked into the office of 33-year-old principal Carson Hammond and shot him to death with a 12-gauge shotgun.[118] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

October 17, 1961: Denver, Colorado, Tennyson Beard, 14, got into an argument with William Hachmeister, 15, at Morey Junior High School. During the argument Beard pulled out a .38 caliber revolver and shot at Hachmeister, wounding him. A stray bullet also struck Deborah Faith Humphrey, 14, who died from her gunshot wound.[120] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

August 1, 1966: Charles Whitman age 25, climbed atop the observation deck at the University of Texas-Austin, and killed 17 people and wounded 31 during a 96-minute shooting rampage in the University of Texas massacre.[121] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

October 5, 1966: Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Grand Rapids High School student David Black, 15, killed school administrator Forrest Willey and seriously wounded fellow student Kevin Roth, 14.[122][123]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

November 12, 1966: Mesa, Arizona, Bob Smith, 18, took seven people hostage at Rose-Mar College of Beauty. Smith ordered the hostages to lie down on the floor in a circle. He then proceeded to shoot them in the head with a 22-caliber pistol. Four women and a three-year-old girl died, one woman and a baby were injured but survived. Police arrested Smith after the massacre. Smith had reportedly admired Richard Speck and Charles Whitman.[124] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 24, 1968: High Point, North Carolina, David Walker, 15, was shot to death just outside Central High School by Gerald Locklear, 15. No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 30, 1968: Miami, Florida, 16-year-old Blanche Ward shot and killed fellow student Linda Lipscomb, 16, with a .22-caliber pistol at Miami Jackson High School. According to Ward, she was threatened with a razor by Lipscomb during an argument over a fountain pen, and in the ensuing struggle the gun went off.[125] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 22, 1968: Miami, Florida, Ernest Lee Grissom, a 15-year-old student at Drew Junior High School, shot and seriously wounded a teacher and a 13-year-old student after he had been reprimanded for causing a disturbance.[127] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 17, 1969: Los Angeles, California, Two student members of the Black Panther Party, Alprentice Carter and John Huggins, were fatally shot during a student meeting inside Campbell Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles. The motive of the shooting regarded who would own the school's African American Studies Center. The shooter, Claude Hubert, was never to be found but three other men were arrested in connection with the shooting.[128] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 23, 1969: Washington, D.C., Cardozo Senior High School assistant principal Herman Clifford, 45, was shot to death in the school's hallway by Ronald Joyner, 18, while scuffling with three youths who robbed the school's bank.[129] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

November 19, 1969: Tomah, Wisconsin, Principal Martin Mogensen was shot to death in his office by a 14-year-old boy armed with a 20-gauge shotgun.[130] No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 2, 1971: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Teacher Samson L. Freedman, 56, was shot to death as he left Morris E. Leeds School, by Kevin Simmons, 14. Freedman had suspended Simmons earlier in the day for cursing in the hallway.[131]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

November 8, 1971: Grove, Oklahoma, School custodian, Jim "James" Underwood brought a .22-caliber revolver to school hidden in a brown paper bag. School principal, T.J. Melton, 49, was shot in the left shoulder, left ear and in the top of his head, according to published reports. He died around 9 a.m. and Underwood was charged the next day with first-degree murder.[132]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

November 11, 1971: Spokane, Washington, Former MIT student Larry J. Harmon, 21, entered St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church on the Gonzaga University campus armed with a .22 caliber rifle. Harmon killed the caretaker, 68-year-old Hilary Kunz, and upon merging from the church, wounded four more people before police officers shot and killed him. Harmon was described by his father as a religious fanatic who believed that he had seen the devil and that Christ was an imposter.[133]


January 5, 1972: Washington, DC, Fifth-grade teacher Margaret Brooks, 57, was shot to death in front of her students by her estranged husband James A. Brooks.[134]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 17, 1974: Chicago, Illinois, Elementary school principal Rudolph Jezek, Jr., 52, was shot to death in his office by Steven Guy, 14, a former student said to be angry at being transferred from the school to a social adjustment center.[135]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

December 30, 1974: Olean, New York, Regents scholar Anthony Barbaro, 17, armed with a rifle and shotgun, kills three adults and wounds 11 others at his high school, which was closed for the Christmas holiday. Barbaro was reportedly a loner who kept a diary describing several "battle plans" for his attack on the school.[136][137]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 18, 1975: Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Marist College student Shelley Lynn Sperling was shot and killed by a scorned suitor in the Marist College cafeteria.[138]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

September 11, 1975: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. Grant High School student Randy Truitt was shot and killed by James Briggs at the school, leaving several others injured.[139]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 12, 1976: Detroit, Michigan, Intruders shot five Murray-Wright High School students after an apparent dispute over one of the intruders girlfriends.[140]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

June 12, 1976: California State University, Fullerton massacre, Custodian Edward Charles Allaway, 37, opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle in the library on the California State University, Fullerton campus killing 7, and wounding 2.No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

November 10, 1976: Detroit, Michigan, Second grade teacher Bettye McCaster, 45, was shot to death in front of her 29 students at Burt Elementary School, by her estranged husband, Al Lewis.[141]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

April 7, 1977: Whitharral, Texas, High School principal M.O. Tripp was shot to death on the front steps of the school by Ricardo Lopez, 17.[142]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 9, 1978: St. Albans, West Virginia, A 15-year-old student was shot and killed by another student at Hayes Junior High School.[citation needed]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 22, 1978: Lansing, Michigan, After being taunted for his beliefs, a 15-year-old self-proclaimed Nazi, killed one student and wounded a second with a Luger pistol.[137]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

May 18, 1978: Austin, Texas, John Daniel Christian, 13, son of Lyndon B. Johnson's former press secretary George Christian, shot to death his English teacher, Wilbur Grayson, 29, with his father's .22 caliber rifle in front of approximately 30 classmates. John Christian was never prosecuted and is now a practicing attorney in Austin, Texas.[143]No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

January 29, 1979: San Diego, California, Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire on Grover Cleveland Elementary School from the window of her home across the street, killing 2 adults and wounding 9 others, 8 of whom were children.No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

1980s
1880-85/10 school shootings, No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

According to the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, in the United States, from September 1986 to September 1990:[158]

At least 71 people (65 students and 6 school employees) had been killed with guns at school.
201 were severely wounded by gun fire.
242 individuals were held hostage at gunpoint.
No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

According to a 1987 survey conducted by the American School Health Association,[159] " 3% of the boys reported having carried a handgun to school at least once during the school year; 1% reported carrying a handgun on a daily basis."

The late 1980s began to see a major increase in school shootings, including: (No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.
May 16, 1986: Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis, In a ransom scheme, David and Doris Young took 150 students and teachers hostage. Their demand for $300 million dollars came to an abrupt end when Doris accidentally set off a bomb, killing herself and injuring 78 students and teachers. David wounded John Miller, a teacher who was trying to flee, then killed himself.
December 5, 1986: Lewistown, Montana, A 14-year-old Fergus High School student shot and killed a substitute teacher and wounded a vice principal and two classmates.
March 2, 1987: De Kalb, Missouri Honors student Nathan Ferris, 12, killed a classmate and then himself.[162]
April 16, 1987: Detroit, Michigan, A ninth-grade Murray Wright High School student killed Chester Jackson, 17, and wounded Damon Matthews, 17, and Tomeka Turner, 18.[163][164]
May 20, 1988: Winnetka, Illinois, Laurie Dann, 30, shot and killed one elementary school student and wounded five others, then took a family hostage and shot a man before killing herself.
September 26, 1988: Greenwood, South Carolina, James William Wilson Jr., 19, entered Oakland Elementary School and opened fire, killing two 8-year-old girls and wounding 6 other students and 2 teachers.
December 16, 1988: Virginia Beach, Virginia, Nicholas Elliott, 15, opened fire with a SWD Cobray M-11 semiautomatic pistol at Atlantic Shores Christian School, killing teacher Karen Farley and wounding another.
January 17, 1989: Stockton, California, Cleveland School massacre Patrick Edward Purdy, 26, killing five children and wounding 29 other students and a teacher. Purdy then killed himself.[166]

1990s No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

According to a survey conducted in 1993 by The Harvard School of Public Health,[167] "15% [of students surveyed] said that they had carried a handgun on their person in the past 30 days, and 4% said that they had taken a handgun to school in the past year," a sharp increase from just five years earlier.
November 1, 1991 Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa shooting Former graduate student Gang Lu, 28, killed four members of the university faculty and one student, and seriously wounded another student, before committing suicide.
February 6, 1992 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, A 14 year-old student shot a 17 year-old student to death in a Douglass High School hallway, prompting the installation of metal detectors in city schools.
May 1, 1992: Olivehurst, California, Lindhurst High School shooting Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded 10 in an armed siege at his former high school. Prosecutors said the attack was in retribution for a failing grade.
December 14, 1992: Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Wayne Lo, 18, shot and killed one student and one professor, and wounded three students and a security guard at Simon's Rock College.
January 18, 1993: Grayson, Kentucky, East Carter High School shooting Scott Pennington, 17, fatally shot his teacher, Deanna McDavid, and head custodian Marvin Hicks.[168]

According to the National School Safety Center, since the 1992-1993 U.S. school year there has been a significant decline in school-associated violent deaths (deaths on private or public school property for kindergarten through grade 12 and resulting from schools functions or activities):[169] According to the U.S. Department of Education, in the 1998-1999 School Year, 3,523 students (57% High School, 33% Junior High, 10% Elementary) were expelled for bringing a firearm to school.[170]

December 17, 1993, Chelsea, Michigan, High school teacher Steven Leith walked out of a staff meeting, returned with a gun, fatally shot the school district's superintendent and wounded the principal and a teacher. The gunman, identified by co-workers as Steve Leith, a science teacher, was arrested at Chelsea High School, the police said. The shooting occurred about an hour after classes ended, during a staff meeting. The Police Chief, Lenard McDougall, said of the suspect: "I found him sitting in a chair in the classroom by himself. He said 'Hi,' and he was taken into custody. He was quiet, very quiet." A 9-millimeter semiautomatic gun was found outside the building, the police said. Joseph Piasecki, superintendent of Chelsea schools, died at Chelsea Community Hospital of multiple gunshot wounds. Phil Jones, 44, an English teacher, was treated for a stomach wound. The principal, Ronald Mead, 43, was shot in the leg.[171]
November 7, 1994: Wickliffe, Ohio, (Wickliffe Middle School shooting) Keith Ledeger, 37, a former student at the school, shot and killed custodian Pete Christopher and wounded four other adults.
January 12, 1995: Seattle, Washington, A 15-year-old Garfield High School student left school during the day and returned with his grandfather's 9mm semiautomatic handgun. He wounded two students.[172]
October 12, 1995: Blackville, South Carolina (Blackville-Hilda High School shooting) Anthony Sincino, 16, killed one teacher and wounded another before committing suicide.
November 15, 1995: Lynnville, Tennessee, (Richland High School shooting) James Rouse, 17, killed a student and teacher and seriously wounded another teacher with a .22-caliber rifle.
February 2, 1996: Moses Lake, Washington, (Frontier Middle School shooting) Barry Loukaitis, 14, killed a teacher and two students and wounded another student when he opened fire on his algebra class.
August 15, 1996: San Diego, California, (San Diego State University shooting) Frederick Martin Davidson, a 36-year-old graduate student killed three professors that he believed were involved in a conspiracy against him.
September 17, 1996: State College, Pennsylvania (Hetzel Union Building shooting) Jillian Robbins, 19, shot and killed one student and injured two outside Pennsylvania State University’s Hetzel Union Building.
February 19, 1997: Bethel, Alaska, Bethel Regional High School student Evan Ramsey, 16, shot and killed the school’s principal and one student, and wounded two other students..
October 1, 1997: Pearl, Mississippi, (Pearl High School shooting) Luke Woodham, 16, murdered his mother at home before killing his ex-girlfriend and another student and wounding seven others at Pearl High School. The perpetrator attempted to flee police and continue his killing spree at a nearby middle school, but he was stopped and detained by the Vice Principal,[173] Joel Myrick, who had retrieved his .45 caliber handgun from his car after hearing the shots fired. Woodham and his friends were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan.
November 27, 1997: West Palm Beach, Florida, Conniston Middle School student Tronneal Magnum, 14, fatally shot Johnpierre Kamel, 14, outside school after an argument over a wristwatch.[174]
December 1, 1997: West Paducah, Kentucky, (Heath High School shooting) Three students were killed and five wounded by Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle.
December 15, 1997: Stamps, Arkansas Joseph “Colt” Todd, 14, concealed in a wooded area on school grounds, shot and wounded two students as they were entering Stamps High School.[175]
March 24, 1998: Craighead County, Arkansas, Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, killed four students and one teacher and wounded ten others as Westside Middle School emptied during a fire alarm intentionally set off by Golden.[176]
April 24, 1998: Edinboro, Pennsylvania, (Parker Middle School dance shooting) Andrew Wurst, 14, fatally shot teacher John Gillette, 48, and wounded two students and a teacher at an 8th grade graduation dance.
May 19, 1998: Fayetteville, Tennessee, Jacob Davis, 18, shot Robert Creson, 18, in a dispute over a girl.[177]
May 21, 1998: Springfield, Oregon, After killing his parents at home, Kip Kinkel, 15, drove to Thurston High School where he shot and killed two students and wounded 25 others.
June 15, 1998: Richmond, Virginia, A 14-year-old student of Armstrong High School wounded a teacher and a school volunteer.[178]
December 10, 1998: Detroit, Michigan, Professor Andrzej Olbrot was killed by graduate student Wlodzimierz Dedecjus, 48.[179]
April 20, 1999: Columbine, Colorado, (Columbine High School massacre) Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, killed 12 students and one teacher, and wounded 21 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School.
May 20, 1999: Conyers, Georgia, (Heritage High School shooting) Six students injured by Thomas Solomon Jr., 15.
June 8, 1999: Lynwood, California, 15 year-old Jessica Yvette Zavala and her 17 year-old cousin, Olivia Munguia, were shot by an unknown assailant outside Lynwood High School.
November 19, 1999: Deming, New Mexico, A 13-year-old girl fatally shot at Deming Middle School by Victor Cordova Jr., 13. Cordova stated he had intended to commit suicide but was jostled by others and the gun moved.[180]

2000s No police /private citizen weaponry stopped the shootings.

February 29, 2000 Flint, Michigan 1 0 At Buell Elementary School, 6-year-old Dedrick Owens, the youngest-ever school shooter, shot and killed classmate Kayla Rolland.[181]

May 26, 2000 Lake Worth, Florida 1 0 Lake Worth Middle School Florida teacher Barry Grunow was fatally shot by his student, 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazill, who had returned to school after being sent home at 1 p.m. by the assistant principal for throwing water balloons. Brazill returned to school on his bike with a 5 inch Raven and four bullets stolen from his grandfather the week before. Brazill was an honor student. Grunow was a popular teacher and Brazill's favorite.[181]

August 28, 2000 Fayetteville, Arkansas 2 0 University of Arkansas shooting at Fayetteville, Arkansas At approximately 12:14 pm, Dr. John R. Locke, 67, Director of the Comparative Literature Program was shot and killed in his office by James E. Kelly, 36, a Comparative Literature PhD candidate who had recently been dismissed from the program for lack of progress towards his degree. Kelly shot Dr. Locke three times before taking his own life in Dr. Locke's office after it was cordoned off by campus police.[182][183][184]

September 26, 2000 Louisiana 1 0 Darrel Johnson, 13, offender in Louisiana school shooting with 1 student fatality.[181]

March 5, 2001 Santee, California 2 13 Santana High School shooting: Charles Andrew Williams, a 15-year-old student, opens fires in Santana High School, killing two students and wounding 13 others. He was arrested and convicted of murder and attempted murder.[citation needed]

March 7, 2001 Williamsport, PA 0 1 Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, wounded student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School; she was depressed and frequently teased.[citation needed]

March 21, 2001 El Cajon, California 0 5 Jason Hoffman opened fire at Granite Hills High School, El Cajon, CA injury five people.[185]

March 30, 2001 Indiana 1 0 Donald R. Burt Jr., age 18, offender in Indiana school shooting with 1 student fatality.[181]

April 24, 2003 Red Lion, Pennsylvania 2 0 On April 24, 2003, eighth-grade student James Sheets entered Red Lion Area Junior High School armed with his stepfather's pistols and subsequently killed the school's principal, Eugene Segro, before killing himself.[186]

September 24, 2003 Cold Spring, Minnesota John Jason McLaughlin, age 15, offender in Minnesota school shooting with 2 student fatalities.[181]

February 2, 2004 Washington, District of Columbia Unidentified offender in Washington, DC school shooting with 1 student fatality.[181]

May 7, 2004 Maryland Unidentified 17-year-old offender in Maryland school shooting with 1 student fatality.[181]

March 21, 2005 Red Lake, Minnesota Red Lake massacre: Jeff Weise, a 16-year-old student, opened fire at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, first killing his grandfather and grandfather's companion. He drove his grandfather's police vehicle to his high school, Red Lake Senior High School. Weise was armed with his grandfather's police weapons—a .40 caliber Glock 23 pistol, Ruger .22 caliber pistol, and a Remington 870 12-gauge shotgun. He shot and killed five students, one teacher, and then committed suicide. Five other people were wounded in the shooting.

November 8, 2005 Tennessee Kenny Bartley, age 15, offender in Tennessee school shooting with 1 principal fatality.[181]

February 23, 2006 Roseburg, Oregon 14-year-old freshman Vincent Wayne Leodoro shot 16-year-old Joseph Monti four times in the back with a 10mm semi-automatic handgun, in the courtyard of Roseburg High School. Leodoro then walked away from the school campus and stood in front of a restaurant where he was confronted by six police officers. Leodoro then placed the handgun to his head and threatened suicide, while customers inside the restaurant and police officers convinced him to not pull the trigger. Afterward, Leodoro surrendered. He was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in July 2006, and will be held in prison until he turns 25 years old.[187][188]

August 24, 2006 Essex, Vermont Christopher Williams walked into Essex Elementary School and opened fire, killing teacher Alicia Shanks after killing his ex-girlfriend's mother, Linda Lambessis, at home.

September 27, 2006 Bailey, Colorado Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis: Duane Roger Morrison walked into Platte Canyon High School and took six girls hostages and sexually assaulted them. As police entered the classroom he killed one hostage and then shot himself. He died later that day in a nearby Denver hospital.[189]

September 29, 2006 Cazenovia, Wisconsin Weston High School shooting: Eric Hainstock, a 15-year-old student, walked in the school building of Weston High School and shot the high school principal with a handgun after a custodian disarmed him of a shotgun in Cazenovia, Wisconsin. The school principal died, and Hainstock was charged and convicted of murder.[citation needed]

October 2, 2006 Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania Amish school shooting: Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk truck driver, shot to death five Amish girls and wounded five others before killing himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Bart Township, Lancaster County.

February 8, 2007 Prineville, Oregon A 18-year-old student at Crook County High School[190] died of a gunshot wound to the head in an apparent suicide in the school's parking lot.

April 16, 2007 Blacksburg, Virginia Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho, age 23, shot and killed 32 students and faculty members, and wounded another 17 students and faculty members in two separate attacks on the same day. Cho committed suicide.

October 10, 2007 Cleveland, Ohio SuccessTech Academy shooting: Asa Coon, a 14-year-old suspended student, returns to SuccessTech Academy, where he fired shots at people inside the school building before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. He shot and wounded two teachers and two students.[191]

February 4, 2008 Memphis, Tennessee At Hamilton High School, a 16-year-old student is shot in the leg during an argument with another student over music.

February 11, 2008 Memphis, Tennessee A 19-year-old senior is shot in his school's gym by a 17-year-old sophomore, following a feud that started off campus earlier in the week; after the shooting, the suspect hands his gun to a coach, saying, "It's over now."[citation needed]

February 14, 2008 DeKalb, Illinois Northern Illinois University shooting: Steven Kazmierczak shot multiple people in a classroom of Northern Illinois University, killing five and injuring 21, before committing suicide. Kazmierczak was not a student at the university, but had attended it the years prior to the attack.

August 14, 2008 Federal Way, Washington 26-year-old Omero Mende was sitting in his car parked on the Lakota Middle School campus to wait to pick up his girlfriend's son. There, he was confronted by 16-year-old Luis F. Cosgaya-Alvarez and two of his friends who were inside an SUV. Cosgaya-Alvarez flashed gang signs at Mendez, and then shot Mendez once in the head. Mendez later died of his injuries. Cosgaya-Alvarez was arrested a few days later in Seattle and was charged with murder.[192] Cosgaya-Alvarez pleaded guilty to murder and weapon enhancements and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.[193]

January 9, 2009 Chicago, Illinois After a basketball game at Dunbar High School, a truck pulled over by the school, with shots being fired from inside it as people were exiting the school campus. Five people were wounded, three critically. Georgio Dukes, 18, was arrested and charged with five counts of felony aggravated battery with a firearm one week after the shootings. Police believe that the attack was gang-related.[194]

April 26, 2009 Hampton, Virginia 18-year-old Odane Greg Maye, a former student of Hampton University, followed 43-year-old pizza delivery man into his former dormitory, Harkness Hall. Armed with three guns, Maye took out one handgun and shot the pizza delivery man in the neck and stomach, wounding him. Maye then shot the dorm monitor twice in the arm and once in the leg. Maye shot himself in a suicide attempt. Odane was charged with two counts of aggravated malicious wounding, two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, breaking and entering while armed, possession of a firearm on school grounds and discharging a firearm in an occupied dwelling.[citation needed]

May 18, 2009 Cambridge, Massachusetts 21-year-old Justin Cosby was shot in the basement common room at Kirkland House, an undergraduate resident hall of Harvard University. Cosby was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a gunshot wound in his abdomen, and died the next day. Four days later, 20-year-old Jabrai Jordon Copney, turned himself in for the murder of Cosby.

May 18, 2009 Larose, Louisiana At Larose-Cut Off Middle School, Justin Doucet, a 15-year-old student, asked his teacher if he could use the restroom. While in the restroom, Doucet took out a .25-caliber semi-automatic handgun from his backpack and donned on camouflage clothes. The gun was registered to his father. Doucet entered a classroom that was not his, and pointed the handgun at the teacher. While walking towards the teacher, he demanded her to say "Hail Marilyn Manson!" and she did not respond. Doucet fired a shot at her, narrowly missing her head. Doucet walked back into the restroom where he shot himself in the head. He was transferred to Terrebonne General Medical Center in critical condition, and died one week later from his wounds.[195][196]

June 16, 2009 San Francisco, California After students were being let out of International Studies Academy on the first day of summer school classes, a man exited a car and opened fire, wounding three people, including a 17-year-old female student. An 18-year-old man was arrested for being an accessory in the crime.[197]

September 3, 2009 San Bruno, California A 20-year-old student was shot in the buttocks in the parking lot of Skyline College after an argument escalated between him and other men. Subsequently, the college campus was placed on lockdown. Three men San Francisco residents, Germaine B. Benjamin, 18; Dimaryea J. McGhee, 20; and Jacori W. Bender, 18, were arrested and were charged with felony firearm offenses.[198]

Date Location Deaths Injuries Description
February 5, 2010 Madison, Alabama 1 0 14-year-old Hammad Memon is accused of shooting to death 14-year-old Todd Brown in a crowded school hallway of Discovery Middle School. He is facing a murder charge.

February 12, 2010 Huntsville, Alabama 3 3 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting: Amy Bishop Anderson, a biology professor, shot and killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others during a faculty meeting. In September 2012, she was sentenced to a life sentence without the possibility of parole, and is serving her sentence at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.

February 23, 2010 Littleton, Colorado 0 2 At Deer Creek Middle School, Bruco Eastwood opened fire from a Winchester Model 70 rifle in a parking lot. Two students, one female and one male and both eighth graders, were both shot and wounded. The boy's wounds were critical for the four days following the shooting. Eastwood was taken down by teachers and held until his arrest. In October 2011, Eastwood was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

September 28, 2010 Austin, Texas 1 0 Colton Tooley, 19, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, fired multiple shots around the campus with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle. Nobody was injured. After the shooting, Tooley walked into the Perry-Castañeda Library and then committed suicide.

October 8, 2010 Carlsbad, California 0 2 Brendan Liam O'Rourke, 41, opened fire with a .357 handgun on a group of children during their lunch period at Kelly Elementary School. Two girls, ages 6 and 7, were hit and grazed by bullets. A construction worker held down O'Rourke until police arrived. O'Rourke wanted to target wealthy children and chose that school as his place of attack. He was sentenced to life in prison.

October 10, 2010 Salinas, California 1 0 15-year-old student Jose Cisneros is shot to death on an athletic field at Alisal High School. Police said that the shooting was gang-related.[199]

November 29, 2010 Marinette, Wisconsin 1 0 Samuel Hengel, 15, took 23 students and a teacher hostage inside a classroom of Marinette High School for several hours. Before the hostage situation, Hengel stormed in the classroom with a handgun and fired shots at a movie projector while a movie was playing. After releasing all the hostages, police entered the building and Hengel shot himself in the head. He died the next day.

December 6, 2010 Aurora, Colorado 0 1 In a gang-related attack outside Aurora Central High School, a 17-year-old girl was shot and wounded. The wounds caused her to be paralyzed. Luis Enrique Guzman-Rincon, 20, fired shots from a car while students were standing outside the high school, trying to shoot at a group of students who were believed to be gang rivals. Guzman-Ricon was sentenced to 35 years in prison.[200]

January 5, 2011 Omaha, Nebraska 2 2 At Millard South High School, Robert Butler Jr., 18, shot and killed Assistant Principal Dr. Vicki Kaspar, and wounded Principal Curtis Case. Butler then opened fire indiscriminately in the front office area, causing the school nurse to be injured by gunshot debris. Butler drove to a parking lot and then fatally shot himself.

March 25, 2011 Martinsville, Indiana 0 1 Michael Phelps, a 15-year-old suspended student, returned to Martinsville West Middle School with a 9mm handgun. In the entrance of the school, Phelps encountered 15-year-old Chance Jackson and shot him twice in the abdomen. Phelps fled the school and dropped the handgun in a field and was arrested shortly after.[201] As a result, Jackson suffered from life threatening injuries and underwent surgery three times, and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Phelps was convicted of attempted murder in August 2011, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 5 years of probation.[202][203]

May 10, 2011 San Jose, California 3 0 Napoleon Lavarias Caliguiran, 54, shot and killed his 25-year-old wife and a 26-year-old man in the fifth level of a parking garage of the San Jose State University campus. Caliguiran shot himself and died later that night in a hospital.

May 23, 2011 Pearl City, Hawaii 0 1 A 14-year-old student is accused of firing a handgun on the campus of Highlands Intermediate School, wounding one student. The gunman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

October 24, 2011 Fayetteville, North Carolina 0 1 A 15-year-old girl was shot in the neck at Cape Fear High School. She was hospitalized in serious condition. A .22-caliber rifle was used in the attack. A student of the school, a 15-year-old male, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

December 8, 2011 Blacksburg, Virginia 2 0 Ross Truett Ashley, 22, a part-time business student at Radford University, shoots and kills a police officer on the campus of Virginia Tech. Shortly after, he leaves the scene and returns and commits suicide.

February 27, 2012 Chardon, Ohio 3 3 Chardon High School shooting: Thomas "T.J." Lane, 17, is believed to have taken a Ruger MK III .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun and a knife to Chardon High School and fired ten shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Three students died in the attack; a 16-year-old boy died immediately, and two other male students died from their wounds the following day. Three other students were injured. Lane was arrested when he was standing near his car parked near the school, and is charged as an adult with murder, attempted murder, and firearms offenses.[204]

March 6, 2012 Jacksonville, Florida 2 0 At Episcopal School of Jacksonville, fired Spanish teacher Shane Schumerth, 28, shot and killed head of school Dale Regan before committing suicide. Schumerth, who had been struggling with depression, was fired for incompetency around 8:30 a.m. on March 6, 2012 and escorted off school grounds. He returned to the campus at 1:15 p.m. with an AK-47 assault rifle concealed in a guitar case. He entered Regan's office and shot her multiple times before turning the gun on himself.[205][206]

April 7, 2012 Oakland, California 7 3 Oikos University shooting: One Goh is accused of shooting to death seven students and wounding three others in a classroom at Oikos University, a small Christian college. The gunman told the students in the classroom to line up against the wall, and exclaimed "I'm going to kill you all!" before firing the gun at them. He fled the scene, stealing a victim's car, and was apprehended hours later in a nearby location. The weapon used was a .45 caliber handgun. Goh is charged with seven counts of murder and is believed by his psychiatric to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.

August 16, 2012 Memphis, Tennessee 0 2 Two Hamilton High School students were shot and wounded in the parking lot of the school. The attack was believed to be gang-related.[207]

August 27, 2012 Perry Hall, Maryland 0 1 Robert Gladden, 15, allegedly took a double barrel shotgun to Perry Hall High School and fired shots inside the school cafeteria. A 17-year-old senior with Down syndrome was hit in the lower back while he was sitting at a table and suffered critical wounds. Gladden was immediately subdued by two school faculty members, and was arrested. He is being tried as adult for 9 counts of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.[208][209]

September 7, 2012 Normal, Illinois 0 0 A student fired multiple gunshots in the ceiling of Normal Community High School, and was tackled by a teacher. Nobody was injured. A 14-year-old student was arrested and is charged with 16 felony counts.[210]

September 26, 2012 Stillwater, Oklahoma 1 0 Cade Poulos, 13, shot himself in the head shortly before classes started at Stillwater Junior High School.[211]

October 31, 2012 Los Angeles, California 0 4 At a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus, an argument escalated and a man pulled out a handgun and shot Geno Hall seven times, critically wounding him. Three other people, who were not students of USC, were shot and wounded and hospitalized with less serious injuries. Brandon Spencer, 20, was arrested for the shooting.

December 14, 2012 Newtown, Connecticut 27 2 Adam Lanza, aged 20, killed 26 people and himself at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns and driving to the school. Lanza brought four guns with him; A Bushmaster .223 caliber XM15-E2S rifle, a Glock 10mm handgun, a Sig-Sauer P226 9mm handgun, and a Izhmash Saiga-12 12 gauge shotgun which was later found in the trunk of the car and not used in the shootings.[212] During the attack, 20 first-grade children aged six and seven were killed, along with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and the school psychologist. Two others were injured. Lanza used the Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle against all of the victims at the school. He then took his own life with one of the handguns as police arrived at the school. According to the state's chief medical examiner, H. Wayne Carver, all of the victims were shot between 3 and 11 times.

January 10, 2013 Taft, California 0 2 A gunman entered a science classroom of Taft Union High School with a 12 gauge shotgun and opened fire. A 16-year-old male student, identified as Bowe Cleveland, was shot in the chest and critically wounded. Another student was shot at, but was not hit. The classroom teacher, Ryan Heber, convinced him to drop his weapon, and the gunman followed his order and was later arrested. Additionally, Heber suffered a minor wound from being grazed by a shotgun pellet during the ordeal. The gunman is suspected to be a 16-year-old student of the school, Bryan Oliver. Cleveland and the other student that was shot at are both believed to be intended targets of the gunman. On January 14, Oliver was charged with two counts of attempted murder and assault with a firearm.[213][214]

January 12, 2013 Detroit, Michigan 0 1 A 16-year-old boy was shot in a field across the school campus after a basketball game was held at Osborn High School. He was hospitalized in serious condition.[215]

January 15, 2013 St. Louis, Missouri 0 2 A gunman shot an administrator in his office on the fourth floor of Stevens Institute of Business and Arts, wounding him. The suspected gunman, Sean Johnson, a part-time student, shot and wounded himself on a stairwell. Both the administrator and Johnson were hospitalized in stable conditions. Johnson was charged with three felony charges, including assault.[216]

January 15, 2013 Hazard, Kentucky 3 0 Two people are shot and killed and a third person was wounded at the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College. The third victim, 12-year-old Taylor Cornett, died from her wounds the next day. 21-year-old Dalton Lee Stidham was arrested and charged with three counts of murder.[217]

January 16, 2013 Chicago, Illinois 1 0 A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was shot to death in a parking lot of Chicago State University. The shooting happened after high school basketball games were being held on the university campus, and Lawson was a spectator at the event. Police arrested two people after the shooting and recovered a weapon.[218]

January 22, 2013 Houston, Texas 0 3 Between the Library and Academic Building outside of Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument and one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the other man, a student, injuring him. A maintenance man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The gunman accidentally shot himself in the leg. After the shooting, the gunman fled into the woods and was arrested hours later. The charges against the initial suspect were dropped and another man was arrested.[219]

January 29, 2013 Midland City, Alabama 1 0 2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis: A gunman, believed to be a man in his 60s, boarded a school bus and shot the bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66. Poland was killed. The gunman abducted a 6-year-old child and held him hostage in an underground bunker.[220]

January 31, 2013 Atlanta, Georgia 0 2 A 14-year-old male student was shot and wounded in the back of the neck at Price Middle School. The gunman, a student, was believed to be arguing with the other student before taking out a handgun and firing multiple shots at him. In addition, a teacher was injured during the shooting. Afterward, the gunman was disarmed by a school resource officer and subsequently apprehended.[221][222]

March 18, 2013 Orlando, Florida 1 0 At the University of Central Florida, 30-year-old student James Oliver Seevakumaran pulled a fire alarm went off at the Tower 1 dormitory. According to plans he had written, Seevakumaran intended to attract a large amount of people inside the building to gather and shoot them. He then pointed a handgun at his roommate and threatened to shoot him inside their dormitory room. Seevakumaran released his roommate who ran into a bathroom to call 911. Seevakumaran then fatally shot himself in the head. Authorities found an assault weapon, a couple hundred rounds of ammunition and four homemade bombs inside his backpack.[223]

List of notable U.S. school attacks
(December 2012)
Further information: List of school-related attacks
Name Location Date Year Number of deaths Perpetrator fate
Bath School disaster Bath Township, Michigan May 18 1927 45 Killed his wife, destroyed his farm with firebombs, and bombed the school before committing a murder-suicide car bombing.[224]
University of Texas massacre Austin, Texas August 1 1966 16 Killed by police and armed citizens
Grove Elementary School Grove, Oklahoma November 8 1971 1
Olean High School shooting1 Olean, New York December 30 1974 3 Taken alive by police; convicted; committed suicide in prison
St. James Grammar School Penns Grove, New Jersey February 24 1975 1
Princeton Day School Princeton, New Jersey April 3 1975 1
California State University, Fullerton massacre Fullerton, California July 12 1976 7 Surrendered; committed to treatment for mental disorder
Murchison Junior High School Austin, Texas May 18 1978 1
Cleveland Elementary School shooting San Diego, California January 29 1979 2 Surrendered; convicted and imprisoned
Deer Creek Middle School shooting Littleton, Colorado April 7 1982 1 Arrested and served 12 years in prison
Parkway South Middle School shooting Manchester, Missouri January 20 1983 2 Committed suicide
Goddard Middle School shooting Goddard, Kansas January 21 1985 1
Portland Junior High School shooting Portland, Connecticut December 10 1985 1
Pine Forest Senior High School Fayetteville, North Carolina May 6 1986
Pinellas Park High School Largo, Florida February 11 1988 1 Both arrested and served time in prison
Hubbard Woods School shooting Winnetka, Illinois May 20 1988 1 Committed suicide
Atlantic Shores Christian School shooting Chesapeake, Virginia December 16 1988 1
Cleveland School massacre Stockton, California January 17 1989 6 Committed suicide
University of Iowa shooting Iowa City, Iowa November 1 1991 6 Committed suicide
Lindhurst High School shooting Olivehurst, California May 1 1992 4 Surrendered; imprisoned
Palo Duro High School shooting Amarillo, Texas September 11 1992 0
Berkner High School shooting Richardson, Texas November 6 1992 1
Edward Tilden High School shooting Chicago, Illinois November 20 1992 1
Simon's Rock College of Bard shooting Great Barrington, Massachusetts December 14 1992 2 Surrendered, convicted and imprisoned
East Carter High School shooting Grayson, Kentucky January 18 1993 2 Surrendered, convicted and imprisoned
Fairfax High School shooting Los Angeles, California January 21 1993 1
Amityville High School shooting Amityville, New York February 1 1993 1
Reseda High School shooting Reseda, California February 22 1993 1 Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Wauwatosa West High School shooting Wauwatosa, Wisconsin December 1 1993 1 Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Chelsea High School shooting Chelsea, Michigan December 17 1993 1 Surrendered
Central Middle School shooting Sheridan, Wyoming September 17 1993 1
Margaret Leary Elementary School shooting Butte, Montana April 12 1994 1
Grimsley High School shooting Greensboro, North Carolina October 12 1994 1
Wickliffe Middle School shooting Wickliffe, Ohio November 7 1994 1 Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Blackville-Hilda High School shooting Blackville, South Carolina October 12 1995 2 Committed suicide
Richland High School shooting Lynnville, Tennessee November 15 1995 2 Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Frontier Middle School shooting Moses Lake, Washington February 2 1996 3 Subdued, convicted and imprisoned
Hamilton High School shooting Scottdale, Georgia February 2 1996 1
San Diego State University shooting San Diego, California August 15 1996 3 Surrendered, convicted and imprisoned
Hetzel Union Building shooting State College, Pennsylvania September 17 1996 1
Bethel Regional High School shooting Bethel, Alaska February 19 1997 2 Surrendered, convicted and imprisoned
Pearl High School shooting Pearl, Mississippi October 1 1997 2 Killed mother before shooting at school; stopped by armed adult, convicted and imprisoned
Heath High School shooting Paducah, Kentucky December 1 1997 3 Surrendered, convicted and imprisoned
Westside Middle School shooting Jonesboro, Arkansas March 24 1998 5 Both arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Parker Middle School dance shooting1 Edinboro, Pennsylvania April 24 1998 1 Stopped by armed adult and imprisoned
Thurston High School shooting Springfield, Oregon May 21 1998 2 Killed parents before shooting at school; subdued by several students, convicted and imprisoned
Columbine High School massacre Littleton, Colorado April 20 1999 15 Both committed suicide
Heritage High School shooting Conyers, Georgia May 20 1999 0 Surrendered, convicted and imprisoned
Fort Gibson Middle School shooting Fort Gibson, Oklahoma December 6 1999 0
Buell Elementary School shooting Mount Morris Township, Michigan February 29 2000 1 Instantly surrendered, but not arrested; adult served prison sentence for negligence with weapon
Lake Worth Middle School shooting Lake Worth, Florida May 26 2000 1 Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
University of Arkansas shooting Fayetteville, Arkansas August 28 2000 2[182][183][184]
Santana High School shooting Santee, California March 5 2001 2 Surrendered, convicted and imprisoned
Granite Hills High School shooting El Cajon, California March 22 2001 0
Martin Luther King, Jr. High School shooting Manhattan, New York City, New York January 15 2002 0
Appalachian School of Law shooting Grundy, Virginia January 16 2002 3 Subdued, convicted and imprisoned
University of Arizona Nursing School shooting Tucson, Arizona October 28 2002 4
John McDonogh High School shooting New Orleans, Louisiana April 14 2003 1 Both arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Red Lion Area Junior High School shootings Red Lion, Pennsylvania April 24 2003 2 Committed suicide
Case Western Reserve University shooting Cleveland, Ohio May 9 2003 1[225] Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Rocori High School shooting Cold Spring, Minnesota September 24 2003 2 Surrendered to adult, convicted and imprisoned
Columbia High School shooting East Greenbush, New York February 9 2004 0
Fairleigh Dickinson University shooting Florham Park, New Jersey April 4 2004 0[226]
Randallstown High School shooting Randallstown, Maryland May 7 2004 0
Red Lake Senior High School massacre Red Lake, Minnesota March 21 2005 8 Killed his grandfather and companion before shootings at school; committed suicide
Campbell County High School shooting Jacksboro, Tennessee November 8 2005 1 Subdued by adult, convicted and imprisoned
Pine Middle School shooting Reno, Nevada March 14 2006 0 Surrendered, convicted and served time in community service
Essex Elementary School shooting[227] Essex, Vermont August 24 2006 2
Orange High School shooting Hillsborough, North Carolina August 30 2006 0 Killed father before shooting at school; arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Platte Canyon High School shooting Bailey, Colorado September 27 2006 2 Committed suicide after siege
Weston High School shooting Cazenovia, Wisconsin September 29 2006 1 Subdued by adult, convicted and imprisoned
Amish school shooting Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania October 2 2006 6 Committed suicide after siege
Henry Foss High School shooting Tacoma, Washington January 3 2007 1
Herbert Henry Dow High School Midland, Michigan March 8 2007 1
University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, North Carolina March 24 2007 0[228]
University of Washington shooting Seattle, Washington April 2 2007 2
Virginia Tech massacre Blacksburg, Virginia April 16 2007 33 Committed suicide
Delaware State University shooting Dover, Delaware September 21 2007 1 Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
SuccessTech Academy shooting Cleveland, Ohio October 10 2007 1 Committed suicide
Louisiana Technical College shooting Baton Rouge, Louisiana February 8 2008 3 Committed suicide
Mitchell High School shooting Memphis, Tennessee February 11 2008 0
E.O. Green Junior High School shooting Oxnard, California February 12 2008 1 Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Northern Illinois University massacre DeKalb, Illinois February 14 2008 6 Committed suicide
Davidson High School shooting Mobile, Alabama March 9 2008 1
Central High School shooting Knoxville, Tennessee August 21 2008 1 Arrested and imprisoned
Henry Ford High School shooting Detroit, Michigan October 16 2008 1
2008 University of Central Arkansas shootings Conway, Arkansas October 27 2008 2 Two of four suspects were arrested
Dillard High School shooting Fort Lauderdale, Florida November 12 2008 1 [229]
Henry Ford Community College shooting Dearborn, Michigan April 10 2009 2
Hampton University Hampton, Virginia April 26 2009 0
Covina High School shooting Covina, California April 30 2009 0[230]
Wesleyan University1 Middletown, Connecticut May 1 2009 1
Canandaigua Academy shooting Canandaigua, New York May 5 2009 1
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts May 18 2009 1 [231]
Larose-Cut Off Middle School shooting Larose, Louisiana May 18 2009 1
Skyline College shooting San Bruno, California September 2 2009 0
Atlanta University Center Atlanta, Georgia September 3 2009 1 [232]
Deer Valley High School shooting Antioch, California September 16 2009 0 Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Northern Virginia Community College Woodbridge, Virginia December 8 2009 0 [233] Arrested
Discovery Middle School Madison, Alabama February 5 2010 1[234]
University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, Alabama February 12 2010 3[235] Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Deer Creek Middle School Littleton, Colorado February 23 2010 0[236] Subdued by adults, convicted and imprisoned
Birney Elementary School Tacoma, Washington February 26 2010 1[237]
Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio March 9 2010 2[238]
Belleville Township HS East Belleville, Illinois August 17 2010 1[239]
University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas September 28 2010 1[240] Committed suicide
Alisal High School Salinas, California October 1 2010 1[241][242]
Mid-Atlantic Christian University Elizabeth City, North Carolina October 3 2010 1[243]
Kelly Elementary School Carlsbad, California October 8 2010 0[244][245] Arrested and imprisoned
Marinette High School Marinette, Wisconsin November 29 2010 1[246]
Millard South High School shooting Omaha, Nebraska, United States January 5 2011 2[247] Committed suicide
Martinsville West Middle School Martinsville, Indiana March 25 2011 0[202]
Worthing High School Houston, Texas March 30 2011 1[248]
Ross Elementary School Houston, Texas April 19 2011 0[249]
San Jose State University San Jose, California May 10 2011 3[250]
Pearl City Middle School Pearl City, Hawaii May 23 2011 1[251]
Cape Fear High School shooting Fayetteville, North Carolina October 24 2011 0[252]
2011 Virginia Tech shooting Blacksburg, Virginia December 8 2011 2 [253] Committed suicide
Walpole Elementary School Walpole, New Hampshire February 10 2012 0[254]
Chardon High School shooting Chardon, Ohio February 27 2012 3 Arrested, convicted and imprisoned
Oikos University shooting Oakland, California April 2 2012 7 Surrendered after siege
Perry Hall High School Perry Hall, Maryland August 27 2012 0 Subdued by adults, convicted and imprisoned
Normal Community High School Normal, Illinois September 7 2012 0
Stillwater Junior High School Stillwater, Oklahoma September 26 2012 1 Committed suicide
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting Newtown, Connecticut December 14 2012 26 Killed mother before mass shooting at school; committed suicide
Taft Union High School shooting Taft, California January 10 2013 0 Surrendered and arrested
Lone Star College-North Harris Harris County, Texas January 22 2013 0 Arrested and imprisoned

[AtheistCrusader]

23. you seem to have some canned point you are trying to express. can you just say it?

Quite a number in your list were halted by the one lawful group with a legal exception to the 'no firearms within X feet' laws.


(please note I am not advocating to arm teachers, just pointing out your line of questions and statements thus far doesn't seem to be leading anywhere productive.)

[MichiganVote]

24. Glad your read some of it.

[AtheistCrusader]

25. I still have no idea what you were getting at with post 14.

[freshwest]

2. What one would give to see those eyes with that look of love - just one more time. Never again.

[blackspade]

3. I'm speachless.....

[noiretextatique]

4. heartbreaking

[Hissyspit]

5. I saw that.

Stopped everything I was doing and listened transfixed.

[Playinghardball]

7. I had a very strange sad feeling after listening to it....

[tavalon]

6. Thank you for posting this. From a political point of view, it is necessary

that such things go viral. However, I cannot watch this. I know my limits and this is a hard limit. Whether it's because I'm a mother or a nurse or just because I'm me, I can't see this.

[SunSeeker]

9. Yup. It's like when the doctor instead of the nurse calls you with the test results.

I couldn't even bring myself to watch that important segment. It's just too painful.

[ErikJ]

10. I was surprised the parents dont want AR-15s banned

They said its too "complicated". It made me wonder if somebody "bought" them off.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. The BATFE has long acknowledged the problem, actually.

It is difficult to legislate a honest or useful delineation between weapons 'too extreme' or whatever, and 'normal' weapons, without basically banning most auto-loading rifles designed and made over the last nearly 100 years.

The BATFE has carte blanch to at least ban any weapon it deems doesn't have a sporting purpose from import, and they use it judiciously. It's not easy to craft meaningful definitions around this technology.

[Bucky]

18. I see this and remember the time I worked at a shelter & had to deliver bad news.

It makes me think of the logistics of how you would sort the families for who deserves to hear the news first, how you get that done as soon as possible, and yet as privately as possible for the sheltering of the surviving family. Those are tasks with almost polar opposite tactics involved. You get the news to them with certainty--there's zero room for error in a chaotic scene like this--and yet the dignity and weight of the moment requires a decorum and a gentleness that doesn't abuse their loss.

When I had to tell a bunch of elementary & preschool school aged kids their playmate and friend at the shelter had died, I felt like I aged five years in five minutes. You never know if you're doing something like that the right way. There might not be a right way to do it.

[Skittles]

20. the haunted look in her eyes

[JDPriestly]

21. My heart goes out to these parents.

How can anyone watch that video and not want strict gun control?

It's beyond me.

We don't have to ban all guns. But we have to limit them, and we have to control access to them.

I hope that Justice Roberts and all Supreme Court justices who have children or grandchildren watch that video. Guns can kill anyone, anytime, anywhere.

[Tx4obama]

22. The FULL 60 minutes story VIDEO is on the link below

Two-part VIDEO on the link below...

60 Minutes Talks To Sandy Hook Parents

Here: http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/60-minutes-talks-sandy-hook-parents

[sheshe2]

27. That was heartbreaking.

I had missed it, so thank you for the link, Tx4obama.

[Tx4obama]

28. Yes it is heartbreaking. 60 Minutes sure did a good job reporting, very respectful, etc. n/t

[sheshe2]

26. This haunts your soul. n/t