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Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:44 AM EST
The Arizona State Legislature opened its new session Monday with a bill to let college teachers carry guns on campus. As Dave Weigel puts it, Arizona's answer to Saturday's shootings may well be that more guns would have stopped it, so let's have more guns.
The suspect in the shooting that claimed six lives and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, among many others, has like so many other young Americans, lived a life that can be measured out in mass killings the one he's accused of conducting. Last night on the show, Rachel Maddow began the accounting when Loughner was three years old and a man in Killeen, Texas, crashed his car into restaurant and then shot 23 people to death inside.
The list, with links compiled by Will Femia after the jump, is a partial one. What's clear even from this cursory review is that the American approaches to mental health and gun safety are failing, over and over, predictably. "It is hard for anybody to find the words to express the
horror and the grief and the anger that are the only rational responses to massacres like this," Maddow said. "But the one thing that events like this are not in America now is inconceivable or unimaginable."
horror and the grief and the anger that are the only rational responses to massacres like this," Maddow said. "But the one thing that events like this are not in America now is inconceivable or unimaginable."
And this: "Whether political rhetoric motivated this kid or not, whether this kid was sane enough to process political rhetoric as sane people understand it or not, whether we will understand sooner or later or never the exact motivation behind this kid, behind this latest American gun massacre, here's the question: Do we have any tools to stop the next American gun massacre? Do we have any idea how to stop this disaster?"
- October 17, 1991 - Gunman Kills 22 and Himself in Texas Cafeteria
- July 02, 1993 - Gunman Raids Law Office and Kills 8
- March 25, 1998 - 5 Are Killed at School; Boys, 11 and 13, Are Held
- April 20, 1999 - Terror in Littleton: The Overview; 2 Students in Colorado school said to gun down as many as 23 and kill themselves in a siege
- July 29, 1999 - SHOOTINGS IN ATLANTA: THE SCENE; In an Office Building, Scenes Of Chaos, Blood and Deat
- March 12, 2005 - Gunman Kills 7 in Wisconsin Church Group
- March 21, 2005 - Shooting Rampage by Student Leaves 10 Dead on Reservation
- January 31, 2006 - Ex-Employee Kills 6 Others and Herself at California Postal Plant
- October 2, 2006 - Man shoots 11, killing 4 girls, in Amish school
- February 12, 2007 - Armed Man Kills 5 People at Utah Mall
- April 16, 2007 - 32 Shot Dead in Virginia; Worst U.S. Gun Rampage
- December 5, 2007 - Gunman at an Omaha Mall Kills 8 and Himself
- February 15, 2008 - Gunman at Illinois College Kills 5 Students, Wounds 16
- April 3, 2009 - 13 Shot Dead During a Class on Citizenship
- November 6, 2009 - Army Doctor Held in Ft. Hood Rampage
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