Why is it time to discuss gun control you may ask?
Here are a few damn good reasons beginning with shootings in 2012. Note I've left out the gang-related shootings
1. February 22, 2012
Su Jung Health Sauna, Norcross, Ga.
59-year-old Jeong Soo Paek walked into the spa and shot and killed four people, then turned the gun on himself.
2. February 27, 2012
Chardon High School, Chardon, Ohio
T.J. Lane allegedly walked into the cafeteria of Chardon High School, pulled out a .22 caliber handgun and began shooting at students gathered there before class. Three people were killed and three others wounded.
3. March 6, 2012
Tulsa Courthouse, Tulsa, Okla.
Three people were wounded when 23-year-old Andrew Joseph Dennehy allegedly opened fire outside the Tulsa County Courthouse on the afternoon of March 6.
Weapon used: .357 revolver
4. March 8, 2012
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
John F. Shick, 30, entered the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and began shooting. One person was killed and seven wounded in the attack. Shick, who had reportedly been diagnosed with schizophrenia, was killed in a shootout with police
5. April 2, 2012
Oikos University , Oakland, Calif.
On April 2, One L. Goh, 43, allegedly killed seven people and injured three more when he opened fire at the small Christian college in Oakland.
Gun bought legally?: Yes.
6. May 30, 2012
Cafe Racer, Seattle, Wash.
Just before 11 a.m. on May 30, 40-year-old Ian L. Stawicki allegedly started shooting inside a Seattle café near the University of Washington-Seattle campus. Police say Stawicki killed four people inside the café, which was known as a gathering place for local artists and musicians. According to the Seattle Times, police say Stawicki then shot a woman near the Town Hall and stole her SUV. By 4p.m., he had reportedly abandoned the SUV and soon after being surrounded by police, fatally shot himself in the head.
7. June 9, 2012
Auburn University pool party, Auburn, Ala.
22-year-old Desmonte Leonard allegedly got in an argument over a woman and then opened fire, killing three people and injuring three others.
8. July 17, 2012
Copper Top bar, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
44-year-old Nathan Van Wilkins allegedly opened fire in a crowded bar near the University of Alabama. Seventeen people were injured in the attack but no one was killed. According to the Tuscaloosa News, less than an hour before he arrived at the bar, Wilkins went to a nearby home and shot at a man inside the house, possibly in a case of mistaken identity.
9. July 20, 2012
Century 16 movie theater, Aurora, Colo.
James Holmes, dressed in black and sporting nearly head-to-toe tactical garb, set off some sort of smoke bomb inside Theater 9 of the Century 16 movie theater. Holmes allegedly began shooting at the audience, Twelve people were killed, 58 others injured, several of whom are still hospitalized.
10. August 5, 2012
Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Oak Creek, Wisc.
As worshippers prayed and meditated, 40-year-old Wade Michael Page walked into the temple and opened fire, killing six. Wade, who was reportedly a white supremacist, was killed in a shoot-out with police.
11. October 21, 2012
Azana Day Spa, Brookfield., Wisc.
Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, opened fire in a suburban day spa, killing his wife, Zina Haughton, and two other women, and injuring four others before killing himself.
12. December 11, 2012
Clackamas Town Center, Clackamas, Ore.
Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, walked into the mall wearing a hockey-style mask and an ammunition-packed vest and opened fire, killing two people and then himself.
13. December 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Conn.
At just after 9:30 a.m., 20-year-old Adam Lanza opened fire inside the K-4th grade school where his mother was a teacher, killing 20 children and six adult before turning a gun on himself.
That was incidents for 2012 (to date)
Why don't we look back 10 years?:
April 2007: A gunman shoots 33 people at the campus of Virginia Tech University in Virginia.
October 2006: A 32-year-old gunman shoots dead at least five girls at an Amish school in Pennsylvania, before killing himself
September 2006: Gunman in Colorado shoots and fatally wounds a teenage schoolgirl, then kills himself; two days later a teenager kills the head teacher of a school in Cazenovia, Wisconsin
November 2005: Student in Tennessee shoots dead an assistant principal and wounds two other administrators
March 2005: Minnesota schoolboy kills nine, then shoots himself
May 2004: Four people injured in shooting at a school in Maryland
April 2003: Teenager shoots dead head-teacher at a Pennsylvania school, then kills himself
March 2001: Pupil opens fire at a school in California, killing two students
February 2000: Six-year-old girl shot dead by classmate in Michigan
November 1999: Thirteen-year-old girl shot dead by a classmate in New Mexico
May 1999: Student injures six pupils in shoot-out in Georgia
April 1999: Two teenagers shoot dead 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine School in Colorado
June 1998: Two adults hurt in shooting by teenage student at high school in Virginia
May 1998: Fifteen-year-old boy shoots himself in the head after taking a girl hostage
May 1998: Fifteen-year-old shoots dead two students in school cafeteria in Oregon
April 1998: Fourteen-year-old shoots dead a teacher and wounds two students in Pennsylvania
March 1998: Two boys, 11 and 13, kill four girls and a teacher in Arkansas
December 1997: Fourteen-year-old boy kills three students in Kentucky
October 1997: Sixteen-year-old boy stabs mother, then shoots dead two students at school in Mississippi, injuring several others
Sandy Hook isn't the reason, it is the tipping point. It is the sheer stupidity of a "community Watch Captain shooting dead a black teenager because he looked suspicious..It is because of a gun carrying retard who picks a fight with an angry Pizza customer in the store and pulls his backbone(firearm) and shoots the victim twice because he cocked a fist at the coward...It is the 4 year old killed by stray bullets in a drive by shooting...
It is time for the "talk". it is time for action.
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