{"id":13430,"date":"2012-12-17T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=13430"},"modified":"2012-12-17T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:12:31","slug":"the-history-of-school-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/12\/the-history-of-school-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of school shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The <em>London Daily Mail<\/em> has published a grim list of other American school shootings, in addition to the one in Connecticut, whose 27 deaths made it the second worse of all time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Virginia Tech \u2013 32 dead plus the shooter, 16 April 2007, Blacksburg, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>Student Seung Hui Cho, 23, killed two stuidents in a dorm and then went through building of classrooms armed with two handguns, shooting at random before killing himself.<\/p>\n<p>2. University of Texas \u2013 16 dead plus shooter, 1 August 1966, Austin, Texas<\/p>\n<p>Former Marine sniper Charles Whitman, 25, armed with an arsenal of weapons shot victims from the observation deck of the campus tower.<\/p>\n<p>3. Columbine High School \u2013 13 dead plus two shooters, 20 April 1999, Littleton, Colorado<\/p>\n<p>Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire outside the school killing students and one teacher before shooting themselves in the library.<\/p>\n<div id=\"premium-content\">\n4. Red Lake High School \u2013 9 dead plus shooter, 21 March 2005, Red Lake, Minnesota\n<p>Jeffrey Weise, 17, goes on a shooting spree at Red Lake High School killing nine people, including his grandfather, before shooting himself.<\/p>\n<p>5. University of Iowa \u2013 five dead plus shooter, 1 November 1991, University of Iowa<\/p>\n<p>Gang Lu, 27, a graduate student from China killed five with a .38-caliber revolver. He was apparently angry because his doctoral dissertation had not been nominated for an academic award.<\/p>\n<p>6. Amish schoolhouse massacre \u2013 six dead plus shooter, 2 October 2, 2006, Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, executes five girls aged 7 to 13 before killing himself in a small Amish schoolhouse<\/p>\n<p>7. Jonesboro, Arkansas \u2013 five dead, 24 March 1998, Jonesboro, Arkansas<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to school and pulled the fire alarm and shot students as they headed for the exits. Four died plus a teacher. The pair were sent to a juvenile detention center and released in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>8. Cleveland Elementary School \u2013 five dead plus shooter, 17 January 1989, in Stockton, California<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Edward Purdy entered a schoolyard and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle at Cleveland Elementary School. Five children died and 30 others were wounded including one teacher. He then shot himself.<\/p>\n<p>9. University of Arizona \u2013 three dead plus shooter, 28 October 2002, University of Arizona<\/p>\n<p>Robert Flores, 40, a nursing student shot an instructor in her office before entering a classroom and killing two more teachers before committing suicide.<\/p>\n<p>10. Kent State University \u2013 four dead, 4 May 1970, Kent State University in Ohio<\/p>\n<p>National Guard troops killed four students who took part in anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2248782\/Adam-Lanza-How-classmates-remember-genius-turned-heartless-killer.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adam Lanza: How classmates remember the \u2018genius\u2019 who turned heartless killer | Mail Online<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London Daily Mail has published a grim list of other American school shootings, in addition to the one in Connecticut, whose 27 deaths made it the second worse of all time. 1. 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