As I have said before, with the exception of the attacks on 9/11 and the truck bomb in OKC, the biggest mass killing was when 87 people were killed in a Bronx nightclub fire using 5 gallons of gasoline.
One thing that REALLY irks me is that the media promotes their own agenda. Journalism is non-existent today. It is all about sensationalizing events for ratings at the expense of the victims. I always wondered why the shooter at the mall in Portland only managed to kill two people in a gun free zone before taking his own life. Here it is a week and a half later and I get my answer. I hear about Nick Meli. A 22 year old concealed permit holder who ignored the no gun signs. He took cover and drew his weapon. The shooter had a malfunction and saw Meli with a gun. The shooter retreated into a store. The next shot the shooter fired was when he took his own life.
http://www.examiner.com/article/medi...-armed-citizen
• A 1997 high school shooting in Pearl, Miss., was halted by the school's vice principal after he retrieved the Colt .45 he kept in his truck.
• A 1998 Parker middle school dance shooting ended when James Strand apprehended the shooter with his shotgun. Police arrived 11 minutes later.
• A 2002 terrorist attack at an Israeli school was quickly stopped by an armed teacher and a school guard.
• A 2002 law school shooting in Grundy, Va., came to an abrupt conclusion when students, after retrieving firearms from their cars, confronted the shooter.
• A 2007 mall shooting in Ogden, Utah, ended when an armed off-duty police officer intervened.
• A 2009 workplace shooting in Houston, Texas, was halted by two coworkers who carried concealed handguns.
• A 2012 church shooting in Aurora, Colo., was stopped by a member of the congregation carrying a gun.
Why argue against something that has proven effective and still argue for something that, from 1994 to 2004, proved ineffective?