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Lesson of NIU and Other Shooters: Post-9/11 America Not So Different
By Candace Talmadge/North Star Writers Group
There’s been a lot of shooting-to-kill on a mass scale lately – not in Iraq, but right here in these United States.
- A gunman holding hostages kills three members of his family and then a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT member, and wounds another SWAT member in Southern California.
- A former graduate student of Northern Illinois University kills seven and wounds 15 before taking his own life.
- A nursing student in Baton Rouge shoots and kills two classmates before turning her gun on herself.
- An Oxnard, California eighth grader fatally shoots a classmate, apparently because of the latter’s sexual orientation.
- A gunman with a longstanding grudge storms a City Council meeting in Kirkwood, Missouri, killing five and wounding the town’s mayor.
- A gunman in a Chicago clothing store orders five women into a back room and shoots them fatally.
- A gunman kills eight and wounds five, then takes himself out at a Nebraska shopping mall during the early December holiday shopping season.
Read more here: http://www.northstarwriters.com/ct080.htm
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MSM Lesson of the Week: If they're white, they're a shooter. If they're brown, they're a terrorist.
February 19, 2008 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
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