In the last few years, there have been multiple motor vehicle
mass murders in Europe and Australia (84 killed with truck in Nice, France[1],
12 murdered in Berlin, Germany with truck[2], 3
killed with SUV, 1 by stabbing in London[3], 5
with truck in Stockholm[4],
13 murdered with truck in Barcelona, Spain.[5] While these were terrorist mass murders,
others have been mental health-related (6 murdered with car in Melbourne,
Australia[6]
[1]
Angela Dewan, Jason Hanna and Euan McKirdy, Attack in Nice: Truck Driver Identified as 31-Year-Old Tunisia
Native, CNN, July 16, 2016.
[4]
Simon Johnson, Niklas Pollard, Rebecka Roos,
Uzbek suspect in Swedish attack sympathized
with Islamic State: police, Reuters, Apr. 9, 2017.
[6]
Holly McKay and Cassie Zervos, Blackburn South woman dies in hospital after Bourke St
rampage, [Victoria, Australia] Herald Sun, Jan. 30,
2017.
He also had the resources to build fertilizer bombs a la Timothy McVeigh. His use of guns probably kept the death toll fairly low compared to driving a truck into the crowd and exploding a large bomb.
ReplyDeleteEverybody tells me that the death toll from knives would be smaller, as if that made a difference to the dead.
ReplyDeleteFrom your list, he still didn't beat the record at Nice, France, and he has a ways to go to get near the Murrah building record from Oklahoma City.
He just beat the 45 dead in the Bath Township school bombing in 1927.
38 of those were elementary school children.