Mass Shootings are NOT NEW: "Texas Tower Shooting" July 31, 1966 (57 Years Ago)

[Stuart G]

Texas Tower Shooting of 1966...July 31, 1966...Charles Whitman...from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting


Feb 14, 2023 — At 6:45 pm on July 31, 1966, Whitman began typing a suicide note. Among other things he wrote: After noting that he planned to kill his wife ...

Article about Charles Whitman: (SHOOTER) at link below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

[Wicked Blue]

1. He was a rarity at the time. Now it's a daily thing.

[Stuart G]

2. "One of the saddest facts about this topic:"He was a rarity at the time. Now it's a daily thing."

K and R your post.....Your words: "Now it's a daily thing."

VERY SAD..

[Ocelot II]

3. A cousin of a good friend was killed in that shooting.

But at the time it was a freakish occurrence (and an autopsy revealed that Whitman had a brain tumor, though they weren't sure whether that caused or contributed to his action); nobody thought this would ever keep happening.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Yes, but now there's more than one a day.

[hlthe2b]

5. He was found to have a brain tumor later. If only there were some explanation for those today.

Obviously, an understandable reason doesn't bring the victims back, but it makes it a little less inexplicable and maybe even preventable..

[yaesu]

8. There is, it's called a fox news lobotomy. nt

[yaesu]

6. And before that the Bath MI school bombing in the early 1920's

That took the lives of dozens of kids and adults. But unlike today, mass murder events were truly rare and there wasn't a fox 24/7 hate network recruiting home grown terrorists

[WarGamer]

11. And the HappyLand Arson case...

More fatalities than any mass shooting in history... by far.

89 killed in 1990

$1 worth of gasoline

[malaise]

7. They were rare back then

Now they’re one a day

[yardwork]

9. And it was so rare, people still talk about it.

Can anyone make all the mass shootings that have occurred in the U.S. this year alone?

[callous taoboy]

10. My H.S. art teacher took cover near the tower that day.

[Eko]

12. Did someone say they were new?

[Kennah]

13. Houston McCoy, the Austin police officer who killed Whitman, suffer PTSD in the aftermath

He wondered if more lives could have been saved had they gotten to Whitman sooner.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/08/01/he-was-looking-straight-at-me-the-brave-officer-who-blew-away-charles-whitman/

https://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Houston_McCoy