Shootings and Deaths

When it happened
Where it happenHow many deaths/Injuries


6 December 2007
Nebraska
9 deaths(including the shooter who killed himself)
9 December 2007
Colorado
5 deaths(including himself)
12 December 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada
6 injuries no deaths
2 February 2008
Chicago, Illinois
5 deaths
5 February 2008
COCKEYSVILLE, Maryland4 dead (shooter's 2 parents and 2 brothers)
7 February 2008
San Fernando Valley, California
4 deaths (including a SWAT officer, 2 injuries
7 February 2008Kirkwood, Missouri 6 dead (including the shooter who was shot by police), 2 injuries
7 February 2008Baton Rouge, Louisiana 3 dead (including the shooter who shot herself)
14 February 2008Northern Illinois University's DeKalb 6 dead (including the shooter), 16 injuries
27 February 2008Los Angeles7 injuries
3 March 2008Florida2deaths (including the gunman who shot himself) and 5 injuries
3 March 2008Memphis, Tennessee6 deaths 3 injuries
29 July 2008Knoxville, Tennessee2 deaths and 7 injuries
9 Oct 2008Knoxville, Tennessee1 deaths, and gunman injured

Monday, January 21, 2008

chainsaw attack

I see that the new gun laws in America are already having an impact. A homeless man in Missouri attacked people in a homeless shelter using a chainsaw and a knife. There were four injuries, but no deaths.

Let this be a lesson to us all...and before you mistake my "lesson" to mean i'm for having more access to guns, let us consider the number of deaths this has incurred, none. And only four injuries...while those four might scoff at the "only four", he had to be close enough to touch people to hurt them which limited the number of people he could harm in a given space of time.

As sad and tragic as this is, its far less tragic than it could have been.

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