US culture of mass killings

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

• If you only look at the US, in modern times, in the list of "whatever's called a massacre", the US government is the winner at 76 deaths (Waco) and killed more than Columbine (15), VA Tech (33), and Sandy Hook (25) combined. (However, it failed to commit suicide during the process.)

It also failed to be trying to kill lots of people.
Government agents didn't shoot 76 people. They attacked an armed compound, and most of the casualties in a two-way gun battle died due to a fire.

If you expand "massacre" to include situations where a bad call results in deaths, rather than just attempts to kill as many people as possible, then Firestone Tires (at least 200 deaths) killed more than Columbine, VA Tech, Sandy Hook, and Waco combined.