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Columbine High School Massacre
At 11:19 AM in Jefferson Country, Colorado Columbine High School Seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated an assault on the school. The attack included the use of two previously-planted fire bombs to divert emergency responses attention, as well as roughly 99 IED's that all failed to go off. The pair killed 12 students, a teacher, traded shots with police forces using shotguns, carbines, and pistols, and at 12:08 briefly commited suicide. The incident sparked gun control debates. -
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Mark O. Barton's Killing Spree
Mark O. Barton, having suffered heavy economic losses two months prior to his spree, murdered his wife on July 27th using a hammer and beat his 2 children to death the following day. On the 29th, Barton went to his former company and proceeded to kill 4 people before moving on to an adjacent Investment Group and killing 5 more. After escaping the scene, Barton attempted to take a hostage only to have the cops called on him. A chase ensued, ending with his suicide at a gas station. -
Red Lake Shooting
The morning of the 21st, Jeffery Weise killed his grandfather- a trial police officer- and his grandfathers girlfriend, then proceeded to take his grandfather's police gear. From there, Weise drove to Red Lake Senior High and killed an unarmed security guard. From there he fired into an English class, killing 3 students and at teacher before grappling with another student who stabbed him with a pencil. After killing the Sophomore, Weise took hits in an exchange with police and then shot himself. -
Virginia Tech Shooting
Seung-Hui Cho began his shooting at 7:15 AM in the West Ambler Hall at Virginia Tech, where he shot two students. From there, around 9:40 AM, Cho entered the Norris Hall, chained the door shut, and proceeded to go from class to class shooting students and professors alike. Roughly 11 minutes after his second attack began, Cho shot himself in the temple, totaling the body count of the second assault at 31. Prior to the incident, Cho had been declared mentally ill yet was still able to buy a gun. -
Geneva Country Massacre
At 3:30 PM, Michael Kenneth McLendon started the massacre by killing his mother at her house. He then proceeded to drive to an Uncle's house in Samson, Alabama where he killed his uncle and two of his cousins, as well as a neighbor and their infant daughter. Right next door, McLendon went to his grandmother's house and proceeded to murder her before going on to drive for 24-miles, shooting people as he drove by and leading the police on a chase. The massacre ended after McLendon shot himself. -
Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting
The morning of the 14th, Adam Lanza killed his mother and took her bolt-action rifle. Later that morning at 9:35, Lanza shot a glass-panel door and entered the Elementary School, beginning his massacre. The initial gunshots had been heard on the school announcements, enabling classes to assume a lockdown state. Regardless, Lanza broke into classrooms and killed students and teacher alike, beginning with 1st-graders. At roughly 9:40, Lanza shot himself, ending with 20 children and 6 staff dead. -
Las Vegas Shooting
On the night of the 1st, from his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, Stephen Paddock fired over 1100 rounds of ammunition as people attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival. Paddock's assault lasted from about 10:05-10:15 PM, during which he killed 58 people and wounded a staggering 851. Paddock possessed a semi-automatic rifle, but through the use of a bump stock was able to achieve the fire rate of a fully-automatic one. When authorities got to him, he had shot himself. -
Stoneman Douglas Shooting
On the 14th, 19 year-old Nikolas Jacob Cruz had carried out the infamous Florida School Shooting, killing 17 people and wounding another 17. Since 2016 and 17, Jacob had hinted at becoming a school shooter and had even made previous threats to the school; yet he had remained apprehended. Following Cruz's apprehension, the state of Florida passed numerous Gun Control legislation, including age restrictions, bump stock banning, and laws regarding the mentally ill and possessing or buying firearms.
