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The guys at The Break Room brought this up and it got me to wondering.  They said this is one of the deadliest weeks in history.  I’m sure if you count major offensives during WWII and Nazi death camp kills coupled with the wholesale slaughter of the Russian people during the Stalin regime on top of all the people Pol Pot killed in Cambodia during the Killing Fields, you’ll come up with some pretty grisly days.  Outside of war or genocide, this is looking to be a very rough week for people just going nuts and killing people.

Check this out.

4/16
Virginia Tech - 2007
German Ship Goya sinks killing 7,000 - 1945

4/17
Mormon cult leader Jeffery Lundgren’s followers kill the Avery Family - 1989

4/18
Nothing happened on this day.

4/19
Oklahoma Bombing - 1995
Waco - 1993

4/20
Columbine Shooting - 1999
Hitler’s Birthday - 1939

It would be an interesting statistic to find out which weeks were historically the deadliest vs just more remarkable (noticable).

The New York Times has an absolutely chilling graphic on gun violence in the United States as a basic average.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/04/21/weekinreview/20070422_MARSH_GRAPHIC.html

That is something I don’t like to think about. I don’t live in the United States, but it’s still a scary thought. I know that the numbers are not as high here in Canada (especially in the province I live in) but, it is still part of the reality.