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icymist

(15,888 posts)
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 06:25 AM Feb 2018

How many more school shootings will America put up with?

2018, 14 February - Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school shootings - (17 dead)
2017, November 14 - Rancho Tehama Reserve shootings - (6 dead)
2015, 1 October - Umpqua Community College shooting - (10 dead)
2014, October 24- Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting - (5 dead)
2013, June 7 - 2013 Santa Monica shooting - (6 dead)
2012, December 14- Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings - (28 deaths)
2012, 2 April - Oikos University shooting - (7 deaths)
2008, February 14 - Northern Illinois University shooting - (6 deaths)
2007, 6 April - Virginia Tech massacre - (33 deaths)
2006, October 2 - West Nickel Mines School shooting - (6 deaths)
2005, 21 March - Red Lake shootings - (10 deaths)
1999, 20 April - Columbine High School massacre - (15 deaths)
1998, May 21 - Thurston High School shooting - (4 deaths)
1998, March 24 - Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden - (5 deaths)
1991, 1 November - University of Iowa shooting - (6 deaths)
1989, 17 January - Stockton schoolyard shooting - (6 deaths)
1976, 12 July - California State University, Fullerton massacre - (7 deaths)
1970, 4 May - Kent State shootings (4 deaths)
1966, 12 November - Mesa, Arizona - (5 deaths)
1966, 1 August - University of Texas tower shooting - (17 deaths)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings_in_the_United_States

Bet y'all never thought 2nd Amendment would never be considered with school shootings? Naw. Y'all never think that far.

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How many more school shootings will America put up with? (Original Post) icymist Feb 2018 OP
Is this a rhetorical question? atreides1 Feb 2018 #1
Yeah it's rhetorical. Interesting. icymist Feb 2018 #2
What's sad about this. Throck Feb 2018 #3

atreides1

(16,093 posts)
1. Is this a rhetorical question?
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 06:38 AM
Feb 2018

The answer is simple...as many as the NRA and gun manufacturers can afford!


icymist

(15,888 posts)
2. Yeah it's rhetorical. Interesting.
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 06:41 AM
Feb 2018
The deaths are just numbers. Just the tip of the iceburg BTW. So, are the American people the NRA?

Throck

(2,520 posts)
3. What's sad about this.
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 08:06 AM
Feb 2018

People pay attention when white kids get shot and the black kids in Chicago getting shot are only local news.

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