I am not disputing the seriousness of
school shootings, but that doesn’t really seem to me to be hard to prevent because
you know in advance that the target will be a SCHOOL. Mass shootings by terrorists on the other
hand are unpredictable.
Here’s
the list of immigrant mass shootings, defined as a shooting at the same general
time and location, not during the commission of another crime, that leaves at
least four people dead — i.e. no gangland shootings, no “man kills family, then
self” and no drug deals gone bad.
1) Omar Mateen, son of Afghan immigrants, killed 49 people at the
Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016.
2) First- and second-generation Pakistani immigrants Syed Rizwan
Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire at a community center Christmas party in
San Bernardino, California, on Dec. 2, 2015, killing 14 people.
3) English immigrant Christopher Harper-Mercer killed 9 people at
Umpqua Community College in southwest Oregon on Oct. 1, 2015.
4) Kuwaiti immigrant Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed five
people in attacks on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on
July 16, 2015.
5) Second-generation Malaysian immigrant Elliot Rodger killed six
people on May 23, 2014, around the campus of the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
6) Second-generation immigrant John Zawahri opened fire at his
Southern California home and later at the campus of Santa Monica College on
June 7, 2013, killing five in all. (The New York Times never mentioned that he
was the child of Lebanese immigrants. The Times didn’t even mention that his
Arab father used to beat up his mother, despite that paper’s usual heightened
interest in stories about men being mean to women.)
7) Cuban immigrant Pedro Alberto Vargas fatally shot six people in
his apartment complex in Hialeah, Florida, on July 26, 2013.
8) Probable Barbadian immigrant Aaron Alexis shot and killed 12
people inside the Washington Navy Yard on Sept. 16, 2013. (See
vdare.com/posts/aaron-alexis-may-have-been-a-barbadian-american-like-eric-holder.)
9) South Korean immigrant One L. Goh opened fire at Oikos
University in Oakland, California, killing seven people on April 2, 2012.
10) Mexican immigrant Eduardo Sencion shot up an IHOP in Carson
City, Nevada, on Sept. 6, 2011, killing four people — three National Guardsmen
and a 67-year-old woman.
11) Second-generation immigrant Nidal Malik Hasan, son of
Palestinian immigrants, killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009.
12) Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Wong shot up the Binghamton, New
York, American Civic Association on April 3, 2009, killing 13.
13) Bosnian immigrant Sulejman Talovic fatally shot five people at
the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City on Feb. 12, 2007.
14) Seung-Hui Cho, a South Korean immigrant, slaughtered 32 people
at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.
15) Hmong immigrant Chai Soua Vang killed six hunters in northern
Wisconsin on Nov. 21, 2004.
16) Mexican immigrant Salvador Tapia shot up the Windy City Core
Supply warehouse in Chicago in 2003, killing six of his former co-workers.
Excluded from the list are: Jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson
(Long Island Railroad massacre in 1993); Nigerian immigrant Peter Odighizuwa
(Appalachian School of Law shooting in 2002); Haitian illegal immigrant Kesler
Dufrene (North Miami shooting in 2012); and Nigerian immigrant Henry Williams
Obotetukudo (Bronx-Lebanon Hospital shooting in 2017). We are only counting
mass shootings since 2000 that left at least four people dead.
First- and second-generation immigrants have committed more than
40 percent of all mass shootings since 2000. I know we’ve been admitting Third
World immigrants at a breakneck pace, but I don’t think immigrants make up
nearly half the population yet.
An
immigration moratorium and widespread deportations would not only cut mass
shootings in half, but it would also free up the FBI’s time to focus on these
delusional young men with the terrifying stare, who hear voices no one else
hears.
Once we exclude the immigrant mass shooters, a clearer pattern
emerges. The typical American perpetrator is a young man with paranoid
schizophrenia — or, as we’re now euphemistically calling it, “autism” —
probably exacerbated by pot, a deadly combo platter. I covered that in my previous post.
