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  1. 1 day ago · The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties). The W column gives a basic description of the weapons used: F – Firearms and other ranged weapons.

  2. 2 days ago · mass shooting, as defined by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an event in which one or more individuals are “actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. Implicit in this definition is the shooter’s use of a firearm .”

  3. 3 days ago · The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the "Tommy gun", "Chicago typewriter", or "trench broom") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed by United States Army Brigadier General John T. Thompson in 1918.

  4. 5 days ago · The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of December 14, 2012, left 26 people dead and 2 injured at the school. After killing his mother in their home, Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adults at the school in Newtown, Connecticut, before taking his own life.

  5. Jun 12, 2024 · Orlando shooting of 2016, mass shooting that took place at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016, and left 49 people dead and more than 50 wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history up to that time.

  6. 2 days ago · Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm related violence. Definitions vary, with no single, broadly accepted definition. [1] [2] [3] One definition is an act of public firearm violence—excluding gang killings, domestic violence, or terrorist acts sponsored by an organization—in which a shooter kills at least four victims.

  7. 11 hours ago · The massacre, among the most horrific racial attacks in American history, left Tulsa’s Greenwood district, a Black neighborhood, in smoldering ruins. The death toll is estimated between 36 and 300.