TUALATIN, Ore. – A man opened fire with a rifle Tuesday at a drug-testing laboratory in suburban Portland, killing one woman and wounding two other people before fatally shooting himself, police said.
No names were immediately released.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_on_re_us/us_office_park_shooting
In the wake of a shooting spree by a US army psychiatrist at Ford Hood in Texas, below is a glance at some of the worst mass shootings in the US in recent years:
November 5, 2009: The army says 12 people were killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage at its Fort Hood base in Texas. Army officials initially said the suspected assailant was among the dead, but later said he survived and was hospitalised.
April 3, 2009: A 41-year-old man opened fire at an immigrant community centre in Binghamton, New York, killing 11 immigrants and two workers. Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant and a former student at the centre, killed himself as police rushed to the scene.
March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people, including his mother, four other relatives and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy, across two rural Alabama counties. He then committed suicide.
February 14, 2008: Former student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, fatally shooting five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide.
December 5, 2007: Robert Hawkins, a 19-year-old US citizne, opened fire with a rifle in Omaha, Nebraska, at a Von Maur store in the Westroads Mall, killing eight people before taking his own life. Five more people were wounded, two critically.
April 16, 2007: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shot 32 people in a dormitory and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then killed himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
February 12, 2007: Sulejman Talovic, 18, killed five and wounded four at the Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was then shot and killed by police.
October 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, shot to death five girls at West Nickel Mines Amish School in Pennsylvania, then killed himself.
March 21, 2005: Jeffrey Weise, a 16-year-old student, killed nine people, including his grandfather and his grandfather's companion at home, and then five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota, before killing himself. Seven students were wounded.
March 12, 2005: Terry Ratzmann, 44, gunned down members of his congregation as they worshipped at the Brookfield Sheraton in Brookfield, Wisconsin, slaying seven and wounding four before killing himself.
July 29, 1999: Mark Barton, 44, a former day trader, killed nine people in shootings at two Atlanta, Georgia, brokerage offices, then committed suicide.
April 20, 1999: Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, both students, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before committing suicide in the school's library.
March 24, 1998: Andrew Golden, 11, and Mitchell Johnson, 13, killed four girls and a teacher at a Jonesboro, Arkansas, school. Ten others were wounded in the shooting.
October 16, 1991: George Hennard, 35, smashed his pickup lorry through a Luby's Cafeteria window in Killeen, Texas, and fired on the lunchtime crowd with a high-powered pistol, killing 22 people. At least 20 others were wounded.
From today's Democracy Now...
Newsweek is reporting the Obama administration has abandoned plans to restore a federal ban on certain semi-automatic assault guns despite a recent spate of killings. On Sunday, California Senator Dianne Feinstein told 60 Minutes she plans to hold off trying to renew the ban that she authored in 1994.
Leslie Stahl: “There is some sense that the President has so many crisis issues on his plate right now that the idea of bringing up guns, which is considered part of the culture wars, would be such a diversion.”
Sen. Feinstein: “I agree with you. I wouldn’t bring it up now.”
Stahl: “So you’re going to hold off?”
Feinstein: “That’s correct. I’ll pick the time and the place, no question about that.”
It all started w/ Santa Claus. Specifically an armed Santa Claus who shot 8 people dead during a holiday party last December. Yup, that inspired me. Cuz' growing up in America, you're privy to lots and lots of ugly news but that one really cut me deep. Columbine, Virginia Tech, it all kinda blurs together over the decades.
Shootings in shopping malls, churches, schools, workplaces - where ever people gather, there have been suicidal rampages by angry, impotent, mentally ill men - mostly white. And yet, gun laws in this country remain lax as ever - so lax that drug dealers from Mexico have resorted to getting their firearms from the across the border. What's worse, the language hasn't even changed to properly frame the issue - terms like "supremacy crime" as coined by Gloria Steinem after Columbine, that links male violence with men's inability to be in charge of their surroundings despite the intense pressure this patriachical culture puts on them, have not become a part of the discourse.
Instead of referring to these men as "suicidal killers," the corporate media still uses soft language like "shooting spree." As if they were going shopping. While the occupied people of Palestine are often derided as a bunch of "Islamic militant suicide bombers," our culture can't seem to look itself in the mirror and recognize how violent it really is. But guns don't kill people - perhaps, but having them so easily available doesn't help.
So i started this blog at the beginning of the year to chart all the shootings. i think we average about two a month as there's probably a lot more that i don't catch. today's shooting took place in a nursing home...
CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning, killing at least six people and wounding several others, police said.
The gunman was also injured before he was apprehended by police after the 10 a.m. shooting at Pinelake Health and Rehab in the town of Carthage, Police Chief Chris McKenzie told several television stations. A police officer was also hurt....
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h91ZbQTpB1bqDYrWJgMJlTE07KDwD977TIMO0
