US school massacre: 2nd deadliest shooting in US history
December 15, 2012  04:46
The New York Times reports:

The deaths of 20 children and six adults in a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School is being widely described as the second deadliest in American history.

Only one other mass killing, the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007, has taken a higher toll. Seung-Hui Cho, a student, killed 32 people in a dormitory and on the campus and then took his own life.But the two are by no means unprecedented in recent American history. 

OnOct. 17, 1991, a gunman, George Jo Hennard, smashed a pickup truck into a restaurant in Killeen, Tex., and opened fire. He killed 22 people and wounded at least 20 others before killing himself with a shot through his left eye.

In July of this year James Holmes, 24, a former graduate student at the University of Colorado in Denver, walked into the midnight showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises' and opened fire, killing 12 people.
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