IIRC, Columbine was the first mass school shooting. It happened on April 20, 1999. Semi-auto rifles were brought to the civilian market in 1903 with the Winchester Model 1903. So what happened between 1903 & 1999.

Video games, movies, prozac, etc...

Abrignac wrote:

Well don't trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer.

tailgater wrote:

IIRC, Columbine was the first mass school shooting. It happened on April 20, 1999. Semi-auto rifles were brought to the civilian market in 1903 with the Winchester Model 1903. So what happened between 1903 & 1999.

Video games, movies, prozac, etc...

Abrignac wrote:

The shooting by Charles Whitman at the UT Austin campus happened in 1966. Here's what he carried that day:

"Whitman sawed off the barrel and butt stock of the shotgun...along with a Remington 700 6-mm bolt-action hunting rifle, a .35-caliber pump rifle, a .30-caliber carbine (M1), a 9-mm Luger pistol, a Galesi-Brescia .25-caliber pistol, a Smith & Wesson M19 .357 Magnum revolver, and more than 700 rounds of ammunition."

So, yeah, he had a military style M1 carbine, which had 15 round mags. The Winchester 1903 had 10 round tube. Couldn't find any data on number of those type of guns sold by year


Interesting set of stats: mass shootings seem to have happened at least once a year since 1976...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mass_shoot-ings_in_the_United_States_by_year 

delta1 wrote:

The Broward County school district’s adoption of a school discipline policy that was praised by the Obama administration for seeking to reduce the reported number of school suspensions, expulsions, and arrests may have played a role in the fact that Nikolas Cruz remained under the radar until his shooting rampage in Parkland, Florida, on February 14.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/26/broward-county-likely-inspiration-for-obama-school-discipline-policy-to-report-fewer-arrests-suspensions/ 

I offered it before, and will offer it again:
Maybe, just maybe, the guberment ignored the numerous tips and warning signs and "allowed" this incident to happen to further promote their gun control agenda???

cacman wrote: