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Revision as of 04:33, December 11, 2007
| Year | Name(s) | Education | Number Killed | Additional Wounded | beliefs | Liberal response |
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| 2007 | Robert Hawkins | Papillion-La Vista public high school | 8 + himself | 5 | targeted Christmas shoppers; wore black; "I can't take this meaningless existence anymore"[1] | avoid suggesting gun control lest Democrats lose West Virginia and Wisconsin in 2008 presidential election |
| 2007 | Pekka-Eric Auvinen | Jokela High School public high school (Finland) | 8 + himself | about 12 | atheist, "I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit." | Finland already had gun control |
| 2007 | Seung-Hui Cho | Westfield public high school (VA), then Virgina Tech public university | 32 + himself | 25 | "Ismail Ax" suggested Muslim beliefs, felt "Jesus was crucifying me." | poem comparing it to environmental harm[2] |
| 2007 | Asa Coon | SuccessTech public school Academy (Cleveland) | himself | 4 | Said he didn't believe in God and didn't respect God, killed after classmate disagreed; wore black [2] | underpublicized because of his anti-God statements |
| 2006 | Kimveer Gill | Rosemere High School (Quebec) | 1 + himself | 20 | "I hate God" and "I hate religious zealots" | Canada already had gun control |
| 2002 | Robert Steinhäuser | Erfurt public school (Germany) | 16 + himself | wore black entirely, literally from head to toe; stopped only when a teacher pulled off his black mask | German gun control already strict, demands for limitations on computer games | |
| 1999 | Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold | Columbine public high school (CO) | 13 + themselves | 23 | atheistic, singled out Christian victims | demand gun control, causing Al Gore to lose West Virginia and Tennessee in 2000 presidential election |
| 1997 | Michael Carneal | Heath public high school (KY) | 3 | 5 | murdered girls as they prayed in a prayer group | underpublicized due to anti-Christian nature |
References
- ↑ Baltimore Sun
- ↑ "We are Virginia Tech. ... We do not understand this tragedy. ... Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory; neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. ..."[1]