8 gunned down in Indiana; Did you even notice?
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Morning update
Saturday, April 17, 2021
By Ken Tingley
“You should be forced to see what an AR-15 will do the head of a crying baby,” is what I wrote on November 12, 2017 after a deranged killer went pew by pew slaughtering adults and children alike in a church Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Another time I suggested we all should be forced to see the crime scene photos inside the elementary school at Sandy Hook.
I then announced I had given up because I had concluded further gun control was impossible because the monsters in our midst are looking back at us in the mirror.
Yeah, we are all to blame for this.
We have our own problems and challenges in living our daily lives, so when you heard - if you heard at all - that eight people were gunned down in Indianapolis on Friday, I wonder how many of us even bothered to shake our heads.
Below, courtesy of Axios, is a list of the worst mass shootings in this country. The eight gunned down in Indianapolis didn’t even make the list. If you get a chance, check out the list for this year alone. It is pretty shocking, too.
I’ve evolved quite a bit on this issue over the years, but I’m pretty sure that when James Madison was writing about protecting the rights of a well-armed militia, this is not what he had in mind.
America's deadliest modern mass shootings
Route 91 Harvest music festival, Las Vegas, October 2, 2017: 59 killed, 526 injured.
Pulse, Orlando, Fla., June 2016: 49 killed and more than 50 injured.
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., April 2007: 32 killed and 17 injured on campus.
Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Conn., December 2012: 26 killed.
First Baptist Church, Sutherland Springs, Texas, November 2017: 26 killed.
Luby's Cafeteria, Killeen, Texas, October 1991: 23 killed.
Walmart, El Paso, Texas, August 3, 2019: 23 killed, 26 injured.
McDonald's, San Ysdiro, Calif., July 1984: 21 killed.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Fla., February 2018: 17 killed.
University of Texas Tower, Austin, Texas, August 1966: 16 killed around campus.
Inland Regional Center, San Bernardino, Calif., December 2015: 14 killed.
Edmond post office, Edmond, Okla., August 1986: 14 killed.
Fort Hood, Fort Hood, Texas, November 2009: 13 killed.
Columbine High School, Littleton, Colo., April 1999: 13 killed.
Binghamton Civic Association, Binghamton, N.Y., April 2009: 13 killed.
New Jersey neighborhood and local shops, Camden, N.J, September 1949: 13 killed.
Schoolhouse Lane neighborhood and Heather Highlands Mobile Home Village, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., September 1982: 13 killed.
Wah Mee club in the Louisa hotel, Seattle, Wash., February 1983: 13 killed.
Century 16 movie theater, Aurora, Colo., July 2012: 12 killed, 58 wounded.
Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., September 2013: 12 killed, 8 wounded.
The Borderline Bar & Grill, Thousand Oaks, Calif., November 2018: 12 killed, several wounded.
Virginia Beach Municipal Center, Virginia Beach, Va., May 31, 2019: 12 killed.
Warren County war
The next time Glens Falls supervisor Claudia Braymer tees off on John Strough, she might want to consider that his beef with Rachel Seeber goes back at least four years.
Strough and his wife were both arrested after he defeated Seeber in a bitter campaign for supervisor in 2017, and it was pretty clear he held her responsible because of her contacts in the sheriff’s office - her husband.
So when Seeber was named chairman of the board of supervisors, I guess nobody was surprised when Strough was not appointed chairman of even one committee, despite being an experienced supervisor of the county’s largest town.
Strough may hold a grudge against Seeber, but it doesn’t have anything to do with gender.
