We are becoming a society of "blamers". If a person does something unconscionable, people try to place the blame on everyone else. Whatever happened to the thought that sometimes people are just mentally unstable or born wired differently? In a world with billions of people, there will always be some that are misguided, sick or just plain evil. Since man was created, there have been "bad seeds". For some reason, in the past few years when a horrible event has happened, some people feel the need to place blame on either one person or one group. That is ridiculous. Each human being is responsible for his or her own actions. There have been mass murders and terrorist acts in every country on earth since the beginning of time, even before the term "terrorist act" was coined. Below is a list of horrible mass shootings prior to 2016, the benchmark date for placing blame. It sickened me to see it, but it is a part of American history. Who did we blame for these mass murders? Did we blame the president at the time or the government? If we did not do it then, we are we so quick to do it now?
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Virginia Tech shooting  |
2007 |
32 (plus 1 perp.) |
23 (17 from gunfire) |
Semi-automatic pistols |
[61]
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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting |
2012 |
27 (plus 1 perp.) |
2 |
Semi-automatic rifle and pistol |
[61]
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Luby's shooting |
1991 |
23 (plus 1 perp.) |
27 |
Semi-automatic pistols |
[61]
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San Ysidro McDonald's massacre |
1984 |
21 (plus 1 perp.) |
19 |
Semi-automatic pistols, and shotgun |
[61]
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University of Texas tower shooting |
1966 |
16 (plus 1 perp. plus 1 victim who died in 2001[fn 1] |
31 |
Rifles, revolver, pistols, and shotgun |
[61]
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Edmond post office shooting |
1986 |
14 (plus 1 perp.) |
6 |
Semi-automatic pistols |
[61]
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| San Bernardino attack |
2015 |
14 (plus 2 perps.) |
24 |
Semi-automatic rifles |
[61][62]
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| Fort Hood shooting |
2009 |
14 [fn 1] |
32 (plus 1 perp.) |
Semi-automatic pistol and revolver |
[66][67]
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Camden shootings |
1949 |
13 |
3 |
Semi-automatic pistol |
[68][69]
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| Wilkes-Barre shootings |
1982 |
13 |
1 |
Semi-automatic rifle |
[70][71][72]
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| Wah Mee massacre |
1983 |
13 |
1 |
Semi-automatic pistol(s) and/or revolver(s)[fn 2] |
[73]
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| Columbine High School massacre |
1999 |
13 (plus 2 perps.) |
24 (21 from gunfire) |
Semi-automatic carbine, semi-automatic pistol, shotguns |
[74]
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| Binghamton shootings |
2009 |
13 (plus 1 perp.) |
4 |
Semi-automatic pistols |
[75]
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Aurora theater shooting |
2012 |
12 |
70 |
Semi-automatic rifle, pistol, and shotgun |
[76][62][77]
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| Washington Navy Yard shooting |
2013 |
12 (plus 1 perp.) |
8 |
Semi-automatic pistol and shotgun |
[78][79]
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Easter Sunday massacre |
1975 |
11 |
0 |
Semi-automatic pistols and revolver |
[83]
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Palm Sunday massacre |
1984 |
10 |
0 |
Semi-automatic pistols |
[85]
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| Geneva County massacre |
2009 |
10 (plus 1 perp.) |
6 |
Semi-automatic rifles, revolver, and shotgun |
[86][87]
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