It is always tragic when a large number of people lose their lives, but it is worse when the deaths are of children. This is a list of ten of the worst massacres at schools.
10. Cologne school massacre 11 killed | 22 injured | Walter Seifert
June 11, 1964: Cologne school massacre. Armed with an insecticide sprayer converted into a flamethrower, a lance and a homebuilt mace, 42-year-old Walter Seifert entered the Katholische Volksschule and opened fire on the girls playing in the courtyard. He then knocked in classroom windows with his mace and fired inside. Eight children and two teachers died, twenty children and two teachers survived with very severe burns. After taking a cyanide pill, Seifert died the following day, in custody.
9.The École Polytechnique Massacre 15 killed 14 injured | Marc Lépine | the worst school massacre in Canada’s history.
December 6, 1989 : Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lepine killed 14 women and wounded a further 13 people at the École Polytechnique at the University of Montreal in the worst school massacre in Canada’s history. He then took his own life. In a letter he left behind, he indicated a hate for feminists as a motive for the shooting. It remains to this day the worst massacre in Canadian history.
8. Columbine High School Massacre 15 died | 24 injured | Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
April 20, 1999 : Two students stormed Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and murdered 12 other students aged 14 to 18 as well as a teacher. A further 24 people were injured before the attackers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed themselves.
7. University of Texas Clock Tower Shootings 18 killed | 31 injured | Charles Whitman
August 1, 1966 : University of Texas Clock Tower Shootings. After killing his wife and mother, Charles Whitman pointed a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin’s Tower and began shooting in a homicidal rampage that went on for 96 minutes. He killed fifteen people and wounded 31 others before being shot dead by police. David Gunby was wounded in the shooting but died 35 years later after ceasing dialysis
6. Dunblane massacre 18 killed | Thomas Hamilton | (the deadliest attack on children in United Kingdom history)
March 13, 1996 : Dunblane massacre. Unemployed former shopkeeper and Scout leader Thomas Hamilton walked into Dunblane Primary School armed with two 9 mm pistols and two .357 Magnum revolvers. He killed sixteen small children and a teacher. The subsequent police investigation revealed that Hamilton had loaded the magazines for his Browning with an alternating combination of fully metal jacketed and hollow point ammunition. This event led to the banning of handguns in the UK.
5. Erfurt massacre 17 killed | 7 injured | Robert Steinhäuser (Worst German Rampage)
April 26, 2002 : Eighteen people died when an expelled former pupil went on a shooting spree at his school in the eastern German city of Erfurt. Masked and dressed in black, the gunman walked through classrooms killing 14 teachers, two schoolgirls and one of the first policemen on the scene before taking his own life.
4. Ma’alot massacre 26 killed | 60 wounded | DFLP, PLO | Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestine Liberation Organization
May 15, 1974: The Ma’alot massacre was an attack, carried out in Ma’alot, Israel by members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, that occurred on May 15, 1974, the 26th anniversary of Israeli independence. In this massacre members of the DFLP murdered 22 religious high school students from the city of Safed. Ma’alot, located on a plateau in the hills of the Western Galilee region of Israel, some six miles south of the Lebanese border, was a development town founded in 1957 by Jewish refugees, mainly from Morocco and other Arab countries such as Tunisia. The terrorist attack was perpetrated by three members of the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP), al-Jabha al-Dimuqratiyya li-Tahrir Filastin.
3. Virginia Tech 32 killed, many more injured | Seung-Hui Cho
The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting comprising two separate attacks about two hours apart on April 16, 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. The perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded many more, before committing suicide, making it the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
2. Bath School disaster 45 died | 58 injured | Andrew Kehoe
May 18, 1927 : In the deadliest mass school murder in United States history, former school board member Andrew Kehoe set off three bombs in Bath Township, Michigan killing 45 people and wounding 58. Kehoe killed himself and the superintendent by blowing up his own vehicle.
1. Beslan school hostage crisis At least 386 dead, including 31 hostage takers | Over 700 injured | Shamil Basayev’s Riyadus Salihiin group
1 September 2004: A group of pro-Chechen armed rebels took more than 1,200 school children and adults hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia. On the third day of the standoff, gunfire broke out between the hostage-takers and Russian security forces.
Addendum: Red Lake High School massacre 10 killed | 12 injured | Jeff Weise
March 21, 2005 : At Red Lake Senior High School in Minnesota, 16-year-old student Jeff Weise opened fire, killing five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard. Prior to the rampage, he had shot his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend. It later became apparent that Weise had visited neo-Nazi Web sites prior to the shooting.
Contributor: Samehrocks
the reason the UK reacted so violently to Dunblane was because the children were 4/5 years old. I know age shouldn’t matter in deaths, but it does. 5 year old kids, compared with teenagers, the 5 year olds have the utter shock factor.
why are all of you sayin virgina tech isnt there, are you kids blind ITS NUMBER 3, WHATS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. comment after comment of “where is virgina tech” lol its number 3, whats goin on, how can you people not see it, am i crazy, am i imagining it.
122. JesusChrist
It was added/corrected after the list was first posted.
27. jfrater – January 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 am
Hi all – thanks for the comments – I have modified the list to include the Virginia Tech shootings which was left off. It is in place number 3. the item lost by including it is now included as an addendum.
you say that the schools are safe enviroments now but there not. my school is one of the most unprotected schools ever. we don’t search any of the kids that walk in. they could have guns or knives or anything. I feel like we should be a little more protected and i am going to go to my principal and talk to him.
columbine is right by my house. that shooting was awful
Simple solution: if you are convicted of using a gun in the comission of a felony, you automatically get the death penalty. No exceptions.
I hate hearing about children and innocents being harmed. Mostly these were mentally ill people who needed medication. Easy access to doctors!
When it comes to attacks against another country for political or ideological reasons. I have trouble understanding how any sane person could do such a thing.
Any person, government, or organization that can support such groups is sick.
i dont see y the columbine one was number 8 i think it should have counted as the worst lie commmon!!
you outlaw guns and the criminals will have them, folks; its that simple
the key is to have effective national databases and strong background checks – along with psychological testing for those wanting to buy guns
I think we need to consider how we demonize our sons in this culture; so many young men grow up with misandric, feminist clap-trap all around them and, not surprisingly, they start lashing out.
You treat people like farm animals and they start becoming like farm animals
the vt is on the list as 3. now. wonder why the beslan school shooting is on the list. i would say it was a terror attack?
@esben (131): This is “Top 10 Worst School Massacres,” not “Top 10 Typical North American School Shootings Performed by Adolescent White Males.”
virginia tech is the saddest one ever. I was there two days before it happened and they said this place is so safe etc. etc. Stupid crazy asian. that man is evil and rotting what nutjob.
These are what I call Heartless, Fearless Depressions
i think that everyone and anyone should accept people not *****ing commit all this violence. if you really think about it, we live in a world full of violence that is everywhere.
killerAngels:
“If the teachers were allowed to carry concealed weapons, many of these gunmen’s life would have ended abruptly and they wouldn’t have went on such a rampage.”
Remember anyone can use anything to kill, doesn’t need to be a gun!! An automobile is a good example.
wow that last vid seriously looks like rob pattinson
What about Jokela High School Massacre?
ohh top10… nevermind then
So, where’s the Top 10 Best School Massacres?
OMFG I HOPE ALL THOSE KILLERS FELT PAIN WHEN THEY DIED, THOSE MASSACRES ARE HORRIBLE, NONE OF THOSE PEOPLE DESERVED TO DIE! ALL THOSE BASTARDS TOOK THE LIVES OF INNOCENT PEOPLE AND RUINED THE VICTIMS LIVES, IM 14, IN SCHOOL AND READING THIS, I WONT BE COMFORTABLE AGAIN…COULDNT IMAGINE WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE THOSE KIDS, SO SCARY!
Yes, they shouldnt have commited suicide,… they can still repent
I think they should keep on doing it ay
I go to Geraldton Secondry College and I like raping other little gurls. i
jeesie is a very nasty person and deserves to be bum raped by a chicken. u needa go to jail…
Lani loves shelvin and vagina
i think people are sik those poor lil kids it just makes me sad and sik and sad that this happens
they are frigen sik dogs and deserve to go die in a ditch and people shuld go kick them till they die the poor dogs hope they all get wat they deserve!! AYMAN
i love *****ing sheeeep…. mi girlfriends names bbbbbaaaaaaahhhhbraaaaa =] R.I.P KIDS
alan doe do a poo in da sheep baba blak in his bum i like chikens n coleslaw on a plate, i eat a pickle wit mi chopstiks and lik it, i du the cha cha i likea to du the cha cha… alan a rap a chiken with his lil green pickle…i like cheese, im goin 2 go kill a wizard wit my chiken. alan alan alan alan alan
i like the fluffy wool on a sheep its soft wen i take it from behind wit my twig… ba sheep baaaaaa… i kill a chiken wit a wizard .. my pikle goes POP!!!! i squirt the sheep in the eye wit mi water gun. god bless all the sheep in the world i hope i can show each of them gud time. i like a big capsican in my chilli hole.. i hav an assparagus in my shoe..i hav broccoli pikle puubz… mi mum drinks donuts wit her chiken.. i *****ed mi nickers. i eat fanny butter on mi toast yum yum
jesse and lani play monopoly all day and nite 2$
God damn these *****s. Pardon my language, but they are NOT psychotic. They always hear voices that say, “Go kill people.” Well, as George Carlin once said, how come the voices never say, “Go take a ***** on the salad bar at Wendy’s”? I’ll tell ya why, because they don’t hear voices. They just want to kill people. They also provide admission that they have done wrong when they kill themselves afterward. They don’t want to face the music. Well guess what, sports fans? There is a Hell and these ten parties responsible are burning the ***** in it.
Now I’m scared, I don’t wanna go back to school anymore
I play alot of shooting games, it’s just that I don’t want to ACTUALLY kill people, just hear them scream over the mic.
*****in rights those kids desereved it all those *****in pricks desereved it they all made fun of those people like eric and dylan. eric and dylan are my idols i think they should be the best people in the world.eric and dylan showed the world that we are the reason school shooting happen that they too can show how it is for those who bully.hell if i had a rifle right now my school would have been shot up alot earlyer. to all who bully karma is a ***** and sometimes that ***** has a gun and a bloodlust……..heil hitler too…….pce
NOBODY DESERVES THIS!
i feel sad for all these children and teens and if people are getting picked on go to coundeling
DIE_*****_DIE, U R A FUK HEAD. MAYBE U SHOULD GET A GUN AND KILL URSELF, COZ NO1 WIL MISS UR SORI ASS. ERIC N DYLAN MAYB UR IDOLS SO Y DNT U GO KILL URSELF U FUK HEAD. 4UR INFO ERIC N DYLAN R THE REASN 4 THE SKEWL MASSACRE NOT THE SKWL KIDS.FUK U R SO STUPID,N THEY AINT KARMA U STUPID FUK. GO STAND IN THE MIDLE OF A HIWAY DIP ***** AND TAKE UR HITLER HEILING WIT U. DIP *****, MUTHA FUKING KUNT, FINGERING, ***** LIKING, ***** TAKING,MINGE LICKIN, CHLAMYDIA RAIDED SIK FUK. GO RAPE UR MUM U FUKA
Goddamn, you dont have to get all up on peoples faces just cuz they give their opinions.so y dont you go your mum
Wait, you no what, every 1 4get what i said. Chicken Turkey my bad you r right & DIE_*****_DIE, CHICKEN TURKEY iz totally right about you being stupid. CHICKEN TURKEY Im on your side : )
WOW! THIS IS INSANE I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD READ ANYTHING SO HORRIBLE. THIS IS REALLY SAD. I DONT THINK I COULD EVER GO THROUGH SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
i think education is messing up the brains of all kids they should ban schools…he he.
DIE_*****_DIE either that is a childish prank because i really don’t think you would really idol people who will want to kill some innocent people, it doesn’t state all the bullies they killed, some of those people are innocent people who do the right thing, do they deserve to die, your idols went in and killed people, i can understand that bulling is wrong but that doesn’t mean that other people should die for one persons actions, and like their is other stuff you can do like smoke a cigarette or something but don’t kill and who ever made this list thank you because of something people should be able to know Die_*****_Die i hope like you don’t mean what you said because what that Hitler did was really just disturbing to kill Jewish people for a reason that they were not what he thought was a perfect German
i cant believe all the ***** that goes on these days. people are just *****ing insane now, going to extremes such as murder-suicide. every time i see something about columbine i tear up because the fact that somebody’s child is that insane is disheartening and i wonder how they can go on in life knowing that their child killed many other children i know for a fact that i would be insane myself if my kid was a killer i dont know how i would live with myself. i cant believe its been 10 years since columbine, and what is worse is that you can go to google and if you happen to type in columbine and go to images you will somewhere see a horrible picture of the two kids who were the shooters dead on the library floor blood all over the place and their faces are covered in blood and is so sad even though they were horrible bastards who should burn in hell for all eternity, it is still very sad to see, just to know that they were sweet inocent children once, at one point they were just babies uncapable of anything at all and to see that they’ve turned into monsters and done something such as shoot up the school, is unbelievable, and that they were my age when they committed these attrocities is unbarable. i wish that in their next life(if there even is one for them) that they do some good, and i also hope that they are with GOD in eternal bliss and love and being shown the love that they deserve. Every time you think about how much you hate these bastards, think about them being sweet little kids, harmless and joyful, and just wonder what went soooooo wrong in their lives that they would go to school with guns and kill people, one girl they killed just because she wouldnt say that she didnt believe in GOD, they just shot her right in the head and when it was all said and done, they turned the gun on themselves, which is insane because IMAGINE THAT BEING YOUR ONLY ESCAPE!!! PARENTS EVERYWHERE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT YOU NEED TO GET INVOLVED IN YOUR CHILDREN’S LIFES SO THAT ***** LIKE THIS CAN FINALLY COME TO AN END, WE HAVE TOO MUCH ***** GOING ON IN THE WORLD TO BE WORRYING ABOUT WHO’S GONNA SHOOT UP THE *****ING SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!alexg
die_*****_die = by the sounds of it, i cant really blame people for bullying you if you are that immature.. grow up you moron.
One thing I don’t get is why people have to say rude things or fight over stuff on here. This is one big problem in our country, people fighting and killing each other. I don’t understand why people do bully others. Everybody is human, we should just all get along. What Eric and Dylan did was wrong….but I know depression is a *****….they could of still got some help. To me there is a lot of people to blame. The shooters because it’s wrong, they could of got helped, teachers because they probably heard kids teasing them or should of seen them changing, parents same thing as the teachers, and the kids that bullied them because they messed with their mind so bad that it drove them crazy and nuts. I’m not saying that anyone deserved this, but it could of been prevented. I was teased and all when I was in high school and I know it does bring you down and makes you feel alone. But there are ways to deal with it. You can always find help in family, friends, or professional help….just remember there is someone out there that does care. Each year it gets worse and worse, and more people are going to die and more murders are going to happen…unless people start helping other people. It’s everyone is worried about war in other countries, but we are also in war with each other. Damn it we are all suppose to be united. We all need to stop being against one another…..then ***** like this won’t have to happen. Bullied or not…..everything needs to stop. I have a almost 3 year old, I’m scared for her…I’m scared that something will happen to her in school, out in public, and even in our own home. To many kids kidnaped, tortured, and killed. As adults we need to improve on things so our kids could be safe. So there generation, their kids generation, etc….can get better and make the world better. Wow…..I feel better since I vented a little bit….but we do need to stick together and stop the killings. If someone is being bullied help them…be a friend or get someone to help them. If you see someone starting to go nuts/crazy go to a professional or cops, someone. Things can be stopped. For the kids/teens that come on this site….you can make a difference….just help someone in need. It’ll be worth it…trust me
I also want to say God Bless everyone and I do hope what I said does make a difference and that it will help at least one person out…..if I did then I’m happy that I helped someone out. Everyone keep your faith up and lets not fight anymore.
I don’t know why but i love Eric and Dylan…
But i don’t think it was a good thing what they done obviously.
R.I.P All the people who were killed.
R.I.P Dylan And Eric x
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not funny at all this needs to be taken seriously!! this s#%^ shouldn’t be happining!!! i love flyleaf and one of their songs are deadicated to Cassie a student that was murderd in the Columbine High school Massacre for standing up for what she belived in. and beecause of that Ccassie is my favorite song.
lick my weiner
Outlawing guns means law-abiding citizens can’t get them. Criminals will get guns no matter what laws are passed. If everyone has to get their guns from gunrunners, a similar fiasco will occur to what happened during Prohibition in the US- violence will skyrocket as organized crime groups battle for control of the trade. Restrict guns, but don’t ban them- people who want to do this ***** will find a way to get their weapons no matter what laws are passed.
im goin to be on this list my killing rampage is going to number 100 nobodys save even the special kids are goin to feel my rage mother*****ers children too i hate every one
this is mess up RIP for all the poor victims that been killed. kids are not even safe in schools anyone…..
Walter Seifert is my favorite
the main reason why they do this is cause theres something wrong in their heads and one day they just snap
The reasons are usually similar, bullying combined with a unhealthy mindset ..
These shootings always happened, and will always happen, if we don’t fix our people’s minds, especially in North America.
I was a freshman at columbine the day the massacre struck. It was the most terrifying day of my life. I was outside asking people for money for lunch…lol… and I heard someone yell, “Go! Go!” and something that sounded like gunshots, but I thought someone was screwing around with firecrackers or something. I realized something was wrong when I heard screaming. That whole day was so long and I was afraid to go anywhere or do anything. The whole thing was so unreal. I can’t believe it’s been almost 11 years.
4/20/99 was by far the worst day of my life.
and Suize just so you know it was proven that she didnt say that. I love that song to because of the meaning but thats not how it happened….
Some of you are pardon my french, *****ing Morons! I hope you know that the police, and FBI, and other agencies watch pages like this. SO saying things like where you go to school, and that you like to rape little girls is REALLY stupid! And people that have these sick bastards as their idols, I hope you rot in Hell! Just like they are RIGHT NOW! Prison isn’t a place for these people. I think its good they died, or killed themselves, because Hell is what they deserve. Prison is like floating on a cloud. Especially the ones who get out. Because guess what? Nothing is stopping them from doing it again!
I am 13 years old and attend junior high. There is a boy who is very annoying and antagonizes my friend and I. He loves it when people are mad at him and lately he’s been VERY strange. He once let slip that he brought a gun to school, but i thought nothing of it even though i should have taken it seriously. I recently figured out he had a crush on my friend and I. He began texting us, but we wouldn’t text back because he annoyed us. Out of the blue he told my friend Holli he was thinking about suicide. She freaked out and told me immediately. I text him and begged him to be my friend and think about what he was saying. He wouldn’t listen. I was so scared and couldn’t figure out what to do. I begged more and so did Holli. He text Holli and if she doesn’t text back he says he’ll “do it”. If i make him mad or even ignore him he says he will go home and kill himself. I don’t want this to happen. I don’t know what to do. Yet I’m scared for my life, Holli’s, and his. My mother is going to go to the counselor and talk to her about it, but I’m not sure there’s much they can do about it. What should I do?