Curated playlist
Mass shootings involving semi-automatic pistols
- Columbine High School massacreThe Columbine High School massacre was meant to be a bombing. On the 20th of April 1999, seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carried explosives into Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, expecting them to kill hundreds of…
- Sandy Hook Elementary School shootingThe Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on the 14th of December 2012 left 26 people dead. Twenty of them were children, all six or seven years old. The other six were adult staff members, and every one of them…
- Pulse nightclub shootingPulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was winding down its weekly Latin Night at around 2:00 a.m. on the 12th of June 2016. Last call had been announced, and about 320 people were still inside. The Saturday event drew a mostly Latino…
- Virginia Tech shootingThe Virginia Tech shooting took place on Monday, the 16th of April 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Each year, the university observes a moment of silence at 9:43 a.m. That time is tied…
- Pittsburgh synagogue shootingThe Pittsburgh synagogue shooting began on the morning of the 27th of October 2018, a Saturday, inside the Tree of Life building in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Three separate congregations were worshipping under that one roof. Each was…
- 2012 Aurora theater shootingThe 2012 Aurora theater shooting began inside Theater 9 of a Century 16 multiplex in Aurora, Colorado, on the 20th of July 2012. It happened during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, and about 400 people had filled the room.…
- University of Texas tower shootingThe University of Texas tower shooting began at 11:48 a.m. on the 1st of August 1966, when a gunman opened fire from the observation deck of the Main Building tower in Austin. The deck stood 231 feet above the ground, and from it the whole…
- 2011 Norway attacksThe 2011 Norway attacks began with an explosion in central Oslo at 15:25:22 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July 2011. Less than two hours later, a man in a police uniform stepped off a ferry onto the island of Utøya. Between the bomb and…
- 2025 New Orleans truck attackAt about 3:15 in the morning on the 1st of January 2025, a white Ford F-150 Lightning pickup drove along Canal Street, got around a traffic barricade, and turned onto Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The 2025 New Orleans truck attack began…
- 2025 Brown University shootingThe 2025 Brown University shooting began shortly after 4 p.m. on the 13th of December 2025, on the second day of final examination week. Brown is an Ivy League university in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. It…