Here is a timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents carried out by one or two gunmen around the world in the last 25 years:
March 13, 1996 - BRITAIN - Gunman Thomas Hamilton burst into a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and shot dead 16 children and their teacher before killing himself.
April 28, 1996 - AUSTRALIA - Martin Bryant unleashed modern Australia's worst mass murder when he shot dead 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in the southern state of Tasmania.
April 1999 - UNITED STATES - Two heavily-armed teenagers went on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Denver, shooting 13 students and staff before taking their own lives.
July 1999 - UNITED STATES - A gunman killed nine people at two brokerages in Atlanta, after apparently killing his wife and two children. He committed suicide five hours later.
June 2001 - NEPAL - Eight members of the Nepalese Royal family were killed in a palace massacre by Crown Prince Dipendra who later turned a gun on himself and died few days later. His youngest brother also died later raising the death toll to 10.
April 26, 2002 - GERMANY - In Erfurt, eastern Germany, 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser opened fire after saying he was not going to take a math test. He killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.
October 2002 - UNITED STATES - John Muhammad and Lee Malvo killed 10 people in sniper-style shooting deaths that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area.
April 16, 2007 - USA - Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia, became the site of the deadliest rampage in U.S. history when a gunman killed 32 people and himself.
November 7, 2007 - FINLAND - Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed six fellow students, the school nurse, the principal and himself with a handgun at the Jokela High School near Helsinki.
September 23, 2008 - FINLAND - Student Matti Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland, killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.
March 11, 2009 - GERMANY - A 17-year-old gunman dressed in combat gear killed nine students and three teachers at a school near Stuttgart. He also killed one other person at a nearby clinic. He was later killed in a shoot-out with police. Two additional passers-by were killed and two policemen seriously injured, bringing the death toll to 16 including the gunman.
June 2, 2010 - BRITAIN - Gunman Derrick Bird opened fire on people in towns across the rural county of Cumbria. Twelve people were killed and 11 injured. Bird also killed himself.
April 9, 2011 - NETHERLANDS - Tristan van der Vlis opened fire in the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, killing six before turning the gun on himself.
July 22, 2011 - NORWAY - Police seize a gunman who killed 69 people at a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling political party, on the small, holiday island of Utoeya. Anders Behring Breivik is later charged with the killings, as well as with an earlier bombing in Oslo which killed eight people. The trial ended last month with Breivik saying that his bombing and shooting rampage was necessary to defend the country - prompting a walk-out by relatives of his victims.
December 13, 2011 - BELGIUM - Gunman Nordine Armani killed three people, including a 17-month-old toddler, wounding 121 in a central square in the eastern city of Liege, before shooting himself. The next day Belgian investigators found the body of a woman in warehouse used by the gunman raising the death toll, including the killer, to five.
July 20, 2012 - UNITED STATES - A masked gunman killed 14 people and wounded 50 others when he opened fire on moviegoers at a showing of new Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in the city of Denver.
An entire theater full of people, and no one else was armed...
Why did you compile a timeline of the "worst shooting incidents in the world"?
I'm just saying, there's a bit of a red flag deal there.
Why does this kind of things only happens in the US ?
Oh yeah, I know : 2nd amendment
Well, at least one guy was fully armed...
Yeah, shootings happens in countries with very strict gun-control laws. The thing is what extremely rarely happens in these countries happens quite often in the US...
Last time I heard about a mass shooting in the US was about 3 monthes agos (Oikos shooting).
Tell me about one gun-control country in wich 2 mass shootings can happen within les than 6 monthes (don't tell me about Merah : 2 shootings but twice the same guy. Counts for one) and I may agree guns aren't the problem.
Metal piercing bullets ever heard of them? Trust me one bullet of 50ae or 500s&w in his chest or his head or lug would have stopped the massacre. I bet you have never seen what can do very big bores on a body armor. Why do you think the Police fear the 500 s&w or the 50ae revolvers and auto pistols? Because in the hands of a good shooter, they can do way much more damage than a 9mm or a 45.This is the stupidest thing anyone can say. You have a dark theater packed with people and your saying that if a few people had guns on them everything would have been different? yeah you're right because instead of 13 dead we'd have 50 dead and instead of 59 wounded we'd be talking about at least 100. It sounds good in theory to say that if a few people were packing everything would be different but in reality that's not what would happen. You already have a lunatic shooting a semi-automatic rifle and to add another group of shooters is just asking for trouble. The shooter was wearing body armor so you would have had a hard time trying to take him out with your handgun.
Well, at least one guy was fully armed...
Yeah, shootings happens in countries with very strict gun-control laws. The thing is what extremely rarely happens in these countries happens quite often in the US...
Last time I heard about a mass shooting in the US was about 3 monthes agos (Oikos shooting).
Tell me about one gun-control country in wich 2 mass shootings can happen within les than 6 monthes (don't tell me about Merah : 2 shootings but twice the same guy. Counts for one) and I may agree guns aren't the problem.
Like I said in my 1st post, all the NON-Americans always say or jump on the gun issue, in other countries where guns are banned or hard to come-by mass shootings still happen, and yeah I'm not the type to go get exact figures from google on how often mass shootings have occurred in countries that ban guns, it doesn't really matter too me, I have my gun, and I carry it when I feel the need too, So I feel safe when I want too.
But you gunless people in those countries where NUTS can't get ahold of guns to go out killing all the people they feel like killing, they use other types of weapons that are much more lethal then guns, how often do hear about bombs actually going off in the US too kill mass people (Terrorist bombings of course) but your average nut case that uses a gun here in US will use a bomb or some type of explosive, or chemical weapons when they want too kill a bunch of people in a country with a banned gun policy / law, am I right? :shock:
So, if all of you non-americans wanna take your shots @ the USA's gun policies and our gun problems, thats fine, I'll live with guns going off as the biggest threat I have to worry about, but I guess in other countries where guns aren't the problem its bombs, that you need too be scared of. apples and oranges again my friend.
RiP to the victims, my prayers to the victim's families and speedy recovery to the injured.
I see the liberal media has already begun Blood Dancing and quick to act not wanting to waste a minute to exploit the tragedy by pushing an agenda. Quite sick and pitiful.
My condolences don't go out to the victims. I'm not pretending to care about people I don't know.
You forgot the Oiko University Shooting on April 2nd 2012 (6 killed), The Geneva County Massacre on March 10th 2009 (10 killed), Binghamton shootings on April 3rd 2009 (13 killed), Red Lake High School Shooting on March 21st 2005 (9 killed) and Fort Hood Shooting on November 2nd 2009 (13 killed).Here is a timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents carried out by one or two gunmen around the world in the last 25 years:
March 13, 1996 - BRITAIN - Gunman Thomas Hamilton burst into a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and shot dead 16 children and their teacher before killing himself.
April 28, 1996 - AUSTRALIA - Martin Bryant unleashed modern Australia's worst mass murder when he shot dead 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in the southern state of Tasmania.
April 1999 - UNITED STATES - Two heavily-armed teenagers went on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Denver, shooting 13 students and staff before taking their own lives.
July 1999 - UNITED STATES - A gunman killed nine people at two brokerages in Atlanta, after apparently killing his wife and two children. He committed suicide five hours later.
June 2001 - NEPAL - Eight members of the Nepalese Royal family were killed in a palace massacre by Crown Prince Dipendra who later turned a gun on himself and died few days later. His youngest brother also died later raising the death toll to 10.
April 26, 2002 - GERMANY - In Erfurt, eastern Germany, 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser opened fire after saying he was not going to take a math test. He killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.
October 2002 - UNITED STATES - John Muhammad and Lee Malvo killed 10 people in sniper-style shooting deaths that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area.
April 16, 2007 - USA - Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia, became the site of the deadliest rampage in U.S. history when a gunman killed 32 people and himself.
November 7, 2007 - FINLAND - Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed six fellow students, the school nurse, the principal and himself with a handgun at the Jokela High School near Helsinki.
September 23, 2008 - FINLAND - Student Matti Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland, killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.
March 11, 2009 - GERMANY - A 17-year-old gunman dressed in combat gear killed nine students and three teachers at a school near Stuttgart. He also killed one other person at a nearby clinic. He was later killed in a shoot-out with police. Two additional passers-by were killed and two policemen seriously injured, bringing the death toll to 16 including the gunman.
June 2, 2010 - BRITAIN - Gunman Derrick Bird opened fire on people in towns across the rural county of Cumbria. Twelve people were killed and 11 injured. Bird also killed himself.
April 9, 2011 - NETHERLANDS - Tristan van der Vlis opened fire in the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, killing six before turning the gun on himself.
July 22, 2011 - NORWAY - Police seize a gunman who killed 69 people at a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling political party, on the small, holiday island of Utoeya. Anders Behring Breivik is later charged with the killings, as well as with an earlier bombing in Oslo which killed eight people. The trial ended last month with Breivik saying that his bombing and shooting rampage was necessary to defend the country - prompting a walk-out by relatives of his victims.
December 13, 2011 - BELGIUM - Gunman Nordine Armani killed three people, including a 17-month-old toddler, wounding 121 in a central square in the eastern city of Liege, before shooting himself. The next day Belgian investigators found the body of a woman in warehouse used by the gunman raising the death toll, including the killer, to five.
July 20, 2012 - UNITED STATES - A masked gunman killed 14 people and wounded 50 others when he opened fire on moviegoers at a showing of new Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in the city of Denver.
thanks for posting in this thread shitface.