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Massacres in the United States

  • 2017 Las Vegas shootingThe 2017 Las Vegas shooting began on the 1st of October 2017, on the last night of a country music festival, and many people in the crowd first took the sound for fireworks. The gunfire came from a suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 2011 Tucson shootingThe 2011 Tucson shooting began at a table set up outside a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes, Arizona, a community just north of Tucson. At 10:10 on the morning of the 8th of January 2011, United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords…
  • 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.…
  • 2015 San Bernardino attackThe 2015 San Bernardino attack began in a rented banquet room at the Inland Regional Center in California, on the 2nd of December 2015. The room belonged, for that day, to the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health. A training…
  • Saint Valentine's Day MassacreThe Saint Valentine's Day Massacre left seven men dead in a Lincoln Park garage in Chicago on the 14th of February 1929. Between four and six gunmen walked in, and two of them were dressed as police officers. The shooters fired seventy…
  • Attica Prison riotThe Attica Prison riot of September 1971 left 43 men dead at a New York state prison, the highest toll in the history of United States prison riots. During the uprising, a declaration from the inmates' side insisted: "We are men! We are…
  • 2019 El Paso Walmart shootingAt 10:15 on the morning of the 3rd of August 2019, a young man sat in a parked car outside a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. He opened his laptop and visited the imageboard 8chan. There he started a thread with a two-word title, "ITS TIME". The…
  • San Ysidro McDonald's massacreThe San Ysidro McDonald's massacre began at about 3:56 on the afternoon of the 18th of July 1984. A black Mercury Marquis sedan pulled into the parking lot of a restaurant on San Ysidro Boulevard in San Diego, California. Forty-five…

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