Timeline for Is the Alexandria, Va. "Republican shooting" the first mass shooting of its kind in the USA?
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Jun 25, 2017 at 17:31 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/879029311948419072 | ||
Jun 21, 2017 at 20:01 | comment | added | Yorik | I can no longer find the references, but there was an episode in Philadelphia c. 1870 where a Democrat Marching Club did a tour of the city and when they got in front of the Republican Club (possibly on 5th street), a group Republicans (possibly the Republican Invincibles) filed out of their club, formed a line and opened fire on a the crowd of marchers and onlookers. Killed a number of people, including police officers. There was a London news item that curiously, inverted the perpetrators and victims. | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 21:35 | comment | added | DJohnM | This shooting, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… in the House of Representatives 63 years ago, seems to have targeted Dems and Republican's equally... | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 19:31 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @fredsbend - What I'd heard this morning (on NPR morning edition I believe) was that somebody had stopped by and asked that question, but they didn't know if it was the shooter or not. From what I saw, they were wearing red uniforms with the word "Republicans" on them, so either way it would have been a pretty unnessecary question. | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 18:28 | comment | added | user1973 | @Feliz I believe a few witness reports have him asking "Are you Republicans?" | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 18:02 | comment | added | Greg | @FelixGoldberg For example the shooter was explicitly asking directions and checked if those are the republicans. | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 16:29 | comment | added | SJuan76 | Also, without shootings, the 1919 campaign of anarchist bombings and (if we use the "political affiliation" instead of "political party" criteria) the violence against Civil Rights movement in the 60s, more specifically the murder of three activists in Mississippi | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 14:07 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Not only wasn't this the first political party mass shooting, it wasn't the first one this decade. Not that anyone should be surprised. It wasn't even the only mass shooting yesterday. We averaged slightly over 1 a day last year, and have had more already than we had at this time last year. With those sheer numbers, just about every motivation imaginable must be hit on eventually. | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 10:52 | answer | added | Felix Goldberg | timeline score: 2 | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 10:49 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | How do we know that the shooter was specifically targeting Republicans, rather than a generic event with people? | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 9:13 | comment | added | bof | There were several incidents during the Bleeding Kansas period when people were killed for being pro-slavery or anti-slavery, i.e., Democrat or Republican. For instance John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre. I guess this particular incident doesn't count, since you changed "killing" to "shooting"; Brown's men used swords. | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 6:14 | answer | added | congusbongus | timeline score: 12 | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 5:39 | comment | added | bof | Perhaps before the Civil War, in the Bleeding Kansas period? | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 3:54 | history | edited | user1973 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Jun 15, 2017 at 3:54 | comment | added | user1973 | @user I suppose in the strict sense, it's not. I think none dead. But the intent to kill many is clear. He's just a bad shot. I will edit to "shooting". | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 2:30 | comment | added | justCal | How does this qualify as a 'mass killing'? | |
Jun 15, 2017 at 2:22 | history | asked | user1973 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |