[dsc]

“This man’s son would be just as dead had he used a crack barrel 12ga loaded with 3” #00. He rolled up to the unsuspecting crowd aimed and fired.”

I can empathize with the father. That much grief brings with it the banshee keen of madness. I don’t know if I could survive it.

This whole series of mass murders is getting a bit suspicious, IMV. How many coincidences can stack up before it becomes impossible to ignore the stench of fish?

This crap didn’t happen fifty years ago, when it was so much easier to get guns and ammunition, and before the blue-nose ranting against booze had racheted up to its current deafening roar.

What has changed? Are there actually cold-eyed killers willing to create this incidents for the purpose of disarming—and subsequently destroying—America? Is this thread —http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3159771/posts—on the money instead of paranoid?

[PghBaldy]

It DID happen 50 years ago, and 75 years ago, and 100 years ago. I have seen thousands of pages of old newspapers - mass killings are not new. The older cases are hidden in a way, since the records are analog and therefore harder to find. They are there. Google News Archive. Here are a few I just found while searching said Archives with words "maniac shoots"

1901 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WSQiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=36MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1877%2C2877636

1908 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I8VUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uI8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5782%2C4833890

1910: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IbEgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VmkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1364%2C549770

1926 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vg9PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=n0wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2737%2C406813

1930 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bpAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y00DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3442%2C7174612