There has been another mass shooting at a shopping mall. Made me wonder how numb I am to news stories like this or how many people I've dishonored by not working harder to fight for protection of the collective good from those who for whatever reason, hold all the rest of us responsible for their own misery.
I don't have any answers but I sure wish there was an easy one.
Here's what a quick search has turned up. It may or may not be a complete list:
January 10, 2012: Three teenagers were shot dead in an ambush in Philadelphia, CBS reported at the
time. The 30-year-old suspect opened fire on four teens in a car, killing three
and injuring one
February 21, 2012: Jeong Soo Paek burst into a spa his family owned in Norcross, near Atlanta, Ga. He killed four relatives before turning the gun on himself
February 27, 2012: A 17-year-old student, T.J. Lane, confessed to going into his Chardon, Ohio high school cafeteria and shooting students at random. Three students died and two were hospitalized, The New York Times reported. Lane said he stole the gun from a relative who had obtained it legally.
February 21, 2012: Jeong Soo Paek burst into a spa his family owned in Norcross, near Atlanta, Ga. He killed four relatives before turning the gun on himself
February 27, 2012: A 17-year-old student, T.J. Lane, confessed to going into his Chardon, Ohio high school cafeteria and shooting students at random. Three students died and two were hospitalized, The New York Times reported. Lane said he stole the gun from a relative who had obtained it legally.
March 30, 2012: A gunman drove by and opened fire on a crowd of mourners outside a funeral home in Miami, Fla. Two people died and 12 more were injured, the Miami Herald reported. The mourners were gathered for the funeral of 21-year-old Marvin Andre, who also died in a shooting.
April 2, 2012: One L. Goh opened fire at Oikos University in Oakland, California. He killed seven people and injured at least three more. Goh was a former student at the school and was said to be angry that he was expelled for poor behavior, CNN reported.
April 6, 2012: Five African-American men were
gunned down in separate incidents in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ABC reported. Police
arrested Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, and said that the murders were
motivated by racism. Three men died and two were seriously injured.
May 29, 2012: Ian Stawicki went
to a cafe in Seattle's University district, shooting and killing four
people, ABC reported at the time. He then fled to a parking lot and shot
another woman before killing himself. He wasn't thought to have known his
victims.
July 20, 2012: James
Holmes, 24, allegedly broke into a midnight premiere of "The Dark
Knigh Rises" in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people and injuring roughly 60
more. Later, police revealed that Holmes, a doctoral student in neuroscience,
spent $20,000 on ammunition and weapons.
August 5, 2012: Seven people died after gunfire broke
out at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The gunman, identified by police
as Wade
Michael Page, also died in the shooting. He was a white supremacist and the
shootings were said to be racially motivated.
August 13, 2012: Three people including a police
officer were killed in shootings near the campus of Texas A&M University.
The alleged shooter, Thomas
Caffell, was said to be obsessed with video games and having financial
problems.
August 24, 2012: Jeffrey Johnson shot a former coworker and injured
nine more people before being shot and killed by police. The shooting occurred
near New York's Empire State Building during rush hour.
September 27, 2012: The attack took place inside Accent Signage
Systems, where a former employee walked inside the firm's building and fired
shots. By the end of the day, five people were dead, including the gunman, who
committed suicide, and four others were injured, three of them critically. One
of those critically injured died the following day, and another man succumbed
to his wounds on October 10. It was the deadliest workplace shooting in
Minnesota's history
October 21, 2012: Police say three people were killed and
four wounded in the Sunday morning shooting at the Azana Day Spa. Authorities
spent much of Sunday afternoon looking for Haughton.They say they believe the
shooting was related to a domestic dispute.The spa is a two-story,
9,000-square-foot building across from a major shopping mall in Brookfield, a
middle-to-upper class community west of Milwaukee.
December 11, 2012: A gunman
opened fire in a suburban Portland shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people
and wounding another as people were doing their Christmas shopping, authorities
said.
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