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In reply to the discussion: Why good guys with guns are not the answer. Illustration. [View all]NinetySix
(1,301 posts)From Wikipedia:
On March 30, 1981, at approximately 2:25 pm local time,[2] Hinckley shot a .22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver six times at Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., after addressing an AFL-CIO conference.
Hinckley wounded police officer Thomas Delahanty, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and critically wounded press secretary James Brady. Hinckley did not hit Reagan directly, but seriously wounded him when a bullet ricocheted off the side of the presidential limousine and hit him in the chest.[6] Hinckley did not attempt to flee and was arrested at the scene. All of the shooting victims survived, although Brady, who was hit in the right side of the head, endured a long recuperation period and remains paralyzed on the left side of his body.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley,_Jr.
I count four. And by the way, the name "James Brady" is forever associated with the gun control proposals that still bear his name.
How many does it take to qualify as a "mass shooting," anyway? The Boston Massacre, which in part precipitated the American Revolution, killed five.