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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsa mass murderer who never seems to make the lists--priscilla joyce ford, 6 dead 23 wounded
on 27 November 1980 (Thanksgiving Day) Priscilla Joyce Ford drove her lincoln continental up the sidewalk on virginia street in reno, killing 6 people and wounding 23. (I was there, had just pulled into my parking lot seconds before her rampage, but saw the horror of what she did)
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It takes another minute for the Lincoln to make its way to 100 feet south of the southeast corner of Second and Virginia streets. At 2:59 p.m., the Lincoln jumps the curb and careens down the sidewalk. It hits the curb at about 20 miles an hour, a speed not likely to blow the tires. The car rapidly accelerates to as high as 40 miles an hour, driving 100 feet down the sidewalk, witnesses will later say. It crosses the Second Street crosswalk and continues another 322 feet down the sidewalk in front of the bank, in front of Harrahs, Nevada Club and Harolds Club. Then its back on Virginia Street, crossing to the southbound lane and stopping two blocks later behind traffic at the Fifth Street traffic light. The light is red.
Destruction follows the cars path like an indictment. Five people are killed immediately, and 24 are injured. Fourteen people will be sent to Washoe Medical Center; the remaining 10 to St. Marys. Street signs, body parts, clothing and the wounded and dead lie on the sidewalk and in the gutter like victims of a natural disaster. But this is an entirely unnatural disaster.
It takes only a few seconds for Ford to drive that five-block total. For the victims, every second following the attack is an eternity, waiting for help to arrive, for family members to come, for the news of survivors and casualties. But the longest wait, some will later say, is for justice.
The two daily newspapers, the Nevada State Journal and the Reno Evening Gazette, contain chilling accounts of the killings in progress.
It looked as though someone had gone through the streets with a lawnmower, mowing people down, a woman from Canada whod witnessed the massacre from the Onslow Hotel-Casino tells the Gazette. It looked like a battlefieldthere were bodies all over the place.
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http://www.newsreview.com/reno/day-terror-came-downtown/content?oid=20584
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)And several other female mass murderers.
Interesting read:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/female_mass_murderer/1.html
niyad
(113,257 posts)a week before the reno horror.
NashvilleLefty
(811 posts)Plus, we're talking 1980.
WTF does that have to do with anything recent?
BainsBane
(53,029 posts)NRA meme.
tblue
(16,350 posts)up the ying yang. As they should be.
BainsBane
(53,029 posts)niyad
(113,257 posts)and what it has to do with is the seemingly endless list of mass murders by whatever means.
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)niyad
(113,257 posts)out what that person was all about.
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)I felt compelled to make a comment over a completely gratuitous post.
niyad
(113,257 posts)yardwork
(61,588 posts)You joined DU just last January, so you might not know that.
Niyad rarely posts about guns or gun control, afaik. She is interested in women's issues and other progressive ideals. If she says that she witnessed this incident I have no reason to doubt her.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)That might it explain it.
yardwork
(61,588 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)niyad
(113,257 posts)yardwork
(61,588 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Oh, right. We all know the answer to that.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)More to the point, WTF does your doubt have to do with anything?
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)Last edited Fri Dec 30, 2016, 12:38 PM - Edit history (2)
I don't get it.
tblue
(16,350 posts)What was her deal?
niyad
(113,257 posts)people for her daughter being put in foster care--she thought she was divine--the list was endless.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)those seem to be more rare than the gun kind.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... in the last 3 months?
Your NRA propaganda attempt case happened over 32 years ago.
Got something a little more recent. We've got some gun nut shooting and killing firefighters TODAY!.
niyad
(113,257 posts)post (in jest) about semi-automatic cars, and how the poster could only mow down 30 because of switching gears.
and, 32 years or not, I remember it far too well.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Funny how common that is among those spewing NRA talking points, isn't it?
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... how many mass murders with vehicles has been committed in those 32 years compared to how many mass murders with guns?
I'll bet you won't give an honest answer to that question, will you?
Skraxx
(2,970 posts)Tests, insurance, licensing, inspections, regulations regarding where you can use them and HOW you can use them and WHO can use them etc. Sounds good doesn't it?
alarimer
(16,245 posts)How many of these types of incidents that you mention? None.
It is estimated that by 2015, the number of people killed by guns will exceed those killed by cars.
niyad
(113,257 posts)remember them, even if not the current headlines.
mainer
(12,022 posts)A few DUIs and they take away your car. But the "car lobby" doesn't have a problem with confiscation of that sort.
OneTenthofOnePercent
(6,268 posts)The NRA doesn't have a problem with that. Hell, you can loose your right to own a gun for actions 100% not gun related (felonies, other criminal record).
Do you really want to compare auto/gun legislation? There some 20,000 firearm laws on the books. You just hate to admit it, but guns ARE extensively regulated... you just don't the existing regulations.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)niyad
(113,257 posts)negligent homicide. there was no "accident" about what she did, as the story makes quite clear.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)insane, although not found insane. She heard voices, thought she was "divine," etc. She was at first ruled incompetent to stand trial.
Goes to show you how a mental health list won't work. She wouldn't have been on one, but she was nutty as a fruitcake, and very dangerous.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Mentally ill and drunk is not a good combination for any use of a potentially dangerous device of any kind.
Debbie357
(28 posts)Missed being on the street by 5 minutes. I'll never forget that day. I live in Reno and was working at Cal Neva at the time.
niyad
(113,257 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)50 shot, 23 dead.