On April 28, 1996, a lone gunman entered the Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania, Australia. Over the course of the next hour and a half, he would shoot and kill thirty-five people and injure twenty-three others. The shooter was Martin Bryant—a man who had been described by his neighbors

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Baruch Goldstein was an American-born Israeli settler who perpetrated the notorious Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, in 1994. As a member of the militant Jewish Defense League, Goldstein heavily discriminated against Arabs throughout his life before the massacre. He worked as a physician in the Israeli Defense force, though he

On October 16th, 1991, George Hennard, of Bell County Texas, drove his pick-up truck through the window of a Luby’s Cafeteria. The carnage that followed later became known as the Luby’s Massacre. Hennard crawled out of the vehicle and screamed at the top of his voice: “This is what Bell

A Look at James Eagan Holmes, The Aurora Shooter On July 20th, 2012, a tragedy occurred in Aurora, Colorado that would forever change the lives of those affected. James Eagan Holmes opened fire inside a movie theater during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, killing 12 people and

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