christiefan915
Catalyst
How many people remember this? It's right up there with the San Bernardino killing, except that the killer wasn't a Muslim.
Eighty mass murders by non-Muslims but apparently the San Bernardino one is the only one that counts.
"Roberta King was a 72-year-old mother of 10 the day she got a call asking if she would substitute teach a citizenship class at the immigrant resource center where she taught English part-time.
"She was the sweetest, gentlest woman around," her son, Dr. Jeffrey King, told Vocativ. "She wasn't even supposed to be there that day, but she loved it. And the students loved her, so when she got the call, she was happy to say 'yes.'"
The next morning, a former student burst into her classroom armed with both 9mm and .45-caliber Beretta handguns. He fired nearly 100 rounds at unsuspecting students and staff members before turning the gun on himself. King, whose friends called her Bobbie, was one of the 13 people killed that day. The majority of the others were immigrants, taking class at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York.
The 2009 mass shooting in Binghamton is one of the deadliest in recent U.S. history -- and yet, outside of the community, it appears largely forgotten. A litany of towns and place names have become symbols for gun violence -- Aurora and Fort Hood, Sandy Hook and Columbine -- but Binghamton is rarely among them."
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Eighty mass murders by non-Muslims but apparently the San Bernardino one is the only one that counts.
"Roberta King was a 72-year-old mother of 10 the day she got a call asking if she would substitute teach a citizenship class at the immigrant resource center where she taught English part-time.
"She was the sweetest, gentlest woman around," her son, Dr. Jeffrey King, told Vocativ. "She wasn't even supposed to be there that day, but she loved it. And the students loved her, so when she got the call, she was happy to say 'yes.'"
The next morning, a former student burst into her classroom armed with both 9mm and .45-caliber Beretta handguns. He fired nearly 100 rounds at unsuspecting students and staff members before turning the gun on himself. King, whose friends called her Bobbie, was one of the 13 people killed that day. The majority of the others were immigrants, taking class at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York.
The 2009 mass shooting in Binghamton is one of the deadliest in recent U.S. history -- and yet, outside of the community, it appears largely forgotten. A litany of towns and place names have become symbols for gun violence -- Aurora and Fort Hood, Sandy Hook and Columbine -- but Binghamton is rarely among them."
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