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No, the deadliest mass shooting in American history was at Wounded Knee. The government, which had been confiscating guns, shot 146 people to death. So that's
by tropo 8y ago
No, the deadliest mass shooting in American history was at Wounded Knee. The government, which had been confiscating guns, shot 146 people to death.
So that's 146 who died due to an effort to take their guns. Let's not repeat history.
On a similar note, there was the Waco siege. That was also an effort to seize guns. There the US government killed 76, which is also worse than the Las Vegas incident, but partly done by burning people to death instead of shooting them.
- chowyuncat 8y agoGettysburg wins if you use this metric.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> No, the deadliest mass shooting in American history was at Wounded Knee. The government, which had been confiscating guns, shot 146 people to death. You'd have to have a very special configuration of what to include as mass shooting for Wounded Knee to count but none of Antietam, the Lawrence Massacre, the Opelousas Massacre, the Greenwood Massacre, the Fort Pillow Massacre, the Bear River Massacre, any number of major attacks in the California Genocide, etc., to be included. But, by the usual standards, neither those nor Wounded Knee are included in the scope of that term.