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50 years of U.S. mass shootings: The victims, sites, killers and weapons

There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and different organizations use different criteria. In this piece we look at the deadliest cases, beginning Aug. 1, 1966, when ex-Marine sniper Charles Whitman killed his wife and mother, then climbed a 27-story tower at the University of Texas and killed 14 more people before police shot him to death. The numbers here refer to 121 events in which four or more people were killed by a lone shooter (or two shooters in three cases). An average of seven people died during each event, often including the shooters.

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In 1999 Stephen King gave a keynote in Vermont, discussing school shootings.

The Bogeyboys by Stephen King

When I speak in public, a thing I do as rarely as possible, I usually don’t speak from a prepared text and I hardly ever try to say anything serious; to misquote Mark Twain, I…