January 23, 2018: Fifteen year-old Gabe Parker opened fire at the high school he attended as a sophomore in Benton, Kentucky, killing two people and wounding fourteen others…
January 28, 2018: Timothy O'Brien Smith used an AR-15 assault rifle and a 9mm handgun to kill four people and wound one other before fatally wounding himself, in Melcroft, Pennsylvania… just southeast of Pittsburgh…
February 14, 2018 - Valentine’s Day: Nineteen-year-old Nikolas Cruz also locks and loads an AR-15 before he attacks his former high school in Parkland, Florida, killing not only fourteen teenaged students but also three teachers, and wounded seventeen other people… Nikolas Cruz, if proven mentally competent, will likely face death penalty charges…
Parkland aftermath: A growing movement favoring significant American gun control legislation forms, spearheaded by survivors of the shooting as a “March for Our Lives..”
February 18, 2018: Khalil Khalil attacks an Orthodox church in Dagestan, Russia, armed with a hunting knife and a rifle. Khalil kills five women and wounds five other people (including two police officers) before being shot and killed by police. Predictably, ISIS claimed responsibility…
April 5, 2018: Volcan Bayan attacks and kills four staff members of the Ozmangazi University in central Turkey.
April 22, 2018: A “nude man in a truck” attacks a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee with an AR-15 killing four people before being arrested following a short manhunt.. The man (Travis Reinking of Illinois) hasn’t been found competent to stand trial mentally…
April 23, 2018: Not technically a mass SHOOTING but an attack of their ilk and inspired by Elliot Rodger… Alek Minassian killed several people in Canada on April 23 by running them down with a rented truck, similar to other terrorist attacks across the pond in Europe…
May 11, 2018: Peter Miles kills his wife, daughter and four grandchildren in Osmington, Western Australia, then calls the police himself before taking his own life… It is the “worst mass shooting since Port Arthur” in Australia, since the significant gun reform the nation underwent following that 1996 massacre…
May 18, 2018: Seventeen-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis attacks his high school in Santa Fe, Texas with a shotgun and a revolver, apparently heavily inspired by the Columbine shooters.. Pagourtzis kills ten people, mostly fellow students, and wounds several others including a police officer before being wounded himself and surrendering alive…
June 28, 2018: Jarrod Ramos attacks the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, armed with a shotgun. Ramos kills five people and wounds seven others before surrendering to police…
August 26, 2018: Professional video game player David Katz opens fire in Jacksonville, Florida, with two semiautomatic handguns at a video game tournament after losing. Katz kills two people and wounds several others before taking his own life…
September 6, 2018: Twenty-nine year-old Omar E. Santa-Perez kills three people and wounds two others with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio before being killed by police…
September 12, 2018: Fifty-four year-old Javier Casarez goes on a rampage in Bakersfield, California killing six people (including his own ex-wife) with a “large-caliber” handgun before taking his own life when confronted by police…
September 20, 2018: Three people are shot dead in Maryland with a handgun, and the suspect took her own life afterwards. Yes, ‘her’ not ‘him’. The suspect was an African-American female, a statistical rarity in mass shootings…
October 17, 2018: Vladislav Roslyakov, clearly inspired by Columbine’s Eric Harris, attacks his college in Crimea with a nail bomb and a shotgun. Roslyakov kills twenty people before taking his life, with even his position of death manipulated to mimic that of Harris…
October 27, 2018: A disgusting white nationalist, anti-Semitic terrorist attacked a synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing eleven people and wounding several others including several police officers and SWAT team members, before being wounded himself and forced to surrender… Bowers has pleaded not guilty but will face federal and state capital murder and hate crime charges…
November 7, 2018: Late on the night of Wednesday, November 7 (last night for me as I type this on November 8..), a “hooded, trenchcoated” gunman opened fire on a crowded country-western bar called The Borderline in Thousand Oaks, California. The gunman - armed with a handgun with an extended clip - was a United States Marine Corps veteran and had recently begun exhibiting signs of post-traumatic stress disorder…
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