What Was the Worst Case of Gun Violence In U.S. History?

Question

The Mountain Meadows massacre was a mass killing of Arkansas emigrants by Mormon Nauvoo Legion militia[1] and Paiutes on Friday, September 11, 1857. The murders took place at Mountain Meadows, a stopover along the Old Spanish Trail in southwestern Utah. Sources estimate that between 100 and 140 men, women and children were killed.[2] The causes and circumstances remain highly controversial


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre

The VT shooting was a horrible tragedy, but the media's portrail of it at the worst gun violence in U.S. History is irresponsible.

While some of ya'll examples were in fact examples of large scale violence.. I don't think it's quite fair to say warring indians/ american soldiers were involved in "gun violence." That was really more of a war.

Answer 1

does it matter what the worst case was?

PEOPLE DIED!!! thats all that matters have some compassion you creep, do u think the families of the dead people care whether it was the worst or not? its not a competition... either way people are dead and families and friends are left behind to mourn them.

Answer 2

Actually, you are incorrect. The mountain meadow massacre occured in the territory of Utah which was outside of the United States, nearly 40 years before becoming a state.

I would never excuse the actions of this group of individuals who participated in this massacre. The attack was not sanctioned by the church and all of the individuals should have been held accountable for their actions.

You should also be aware that this massacre occurred after the church was forceably driven from New York, Ohio, Missiouri, and Illinois. Church members were repeatedly persecuted, robbed, mobbed, imprisoned, forced from their homes, having much of their land and property destroyed or stolen. It also occurred after the martyrdom of many early church members including the prophet Joseph Smith and his brother in the state of Missouri. It occurred after the Haun's Mill massacre in Mo. which kill 18 and injured 13 and the Battle of Crooked Creek, also in Mo., which wounded 16 and killed 4. It occurred after the Mormon Pioneers crossed the entire continent which resulted in the death of over 200 church members who had to seek religious freedom outside of the United States which was founded, in part, by people who had also been seeking the same freedom.

I don't think that your information was aimed at the church but I still thought that you should know of some of the background leading up to the Mountain Meadow Massacre.

Answer 3

Custer's Last Stand at the Little Big Horn.

257 cavalry soldiers died that day due to Gun Control by the US Government. US military personnel were not issued repeating rifles due to lobby by the Indian Bureau who sold thru their Indian Agents repeating rifles to the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.

Despite overwhelming supply of repeating rifles i.e Spencer Carbines gathering rust and dust in armories. These weapons were not made available to US troops in the field during the Indian Wars.

Custer and his men were armed with single shot Springfield Carbines while Sioux and Cheyenne warriors were armed with Henry repeating rifles. Superiority in numbers and inferiority in arms led to the massacre of the 7th cavalry at Little Big Horn.

Answer 4

Why this sudden harping on the Mountain Meadows thing? It was not sanctioned by the church, and even tho I don't condone what they did, if what they say happened really did, then I can understnding why they might have snapped as they did.

Answer 5

possibly the sand creek massacre

http://www.santafetrailscenicandhistoricbyway.org/scmasacre.html

edit. no it wasn't a war. they were assured by the president that by living under the American flag ,that they were safe to live their life in peace. seems every treaty was broken by the US government. how would you feel if a female family members genitalia became a cover for a saddle horn?

Answer 6

For the media, "US History" began around 1965.

Answer 7

Utah was not a state at that time. So I suppose they are technically still correct.

Answer 8

The media has an agenda.

That is why they are not telling the whole story

Answer 9

the worst gunfight in history was in my house