Las Vegas shooting massacre

The shooting massacre on October 1st 2017 was an awful display of hate and violence in America.  Details of this will no doubt still be coming forth for some time.  Without looking at the political implication of this shooting I would like to focus on one annoying factor I've seen portrayed by the main stream media.  They are calling this the largest shooting massacre in American history.  This is really not true, it's not even close.  Even if you  choose to remove war from the criteria, you still have some very heinous and violent massacres to choose from.  The Las Vegas shooting is only the largest massacre of mostly white Americans in the modern area.

Let's look at two terrible massacres in particular;

The Wounded Knee massacre which occurred in December of 1890 resulted in the death of between 150 and 300 men women and children at the hands of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment.  This massacre was a result of the U.S. military deciding to disarm the Native Americans who belonged to the Lakota tribe.  These Lakota did not wish to be disarmed.  You might say their words and actions might have resembled something like "You can pry our guns from our cold dead hands".  Of which the Soldiers responded with death and blood shed.  31 U.S. soldiers also died that day, all because of unfair and unconstitutional treatment of people who were not fully protected by our Constitution.

The Colfax massacre which occurred in April of 1873 on Easter Sunday no less, resulted in the death of over 100 mostly black Americans.  This massacre was a result of the contested elections in Louisiana of 1872.  A group of white Democrats armed with rifles and cannon overpowered  the Republican freedmen and the black state militia who were protecting the Grant Parish courthouse in Colfax.  Most of the freedmen were actually killed after they surrender.  At least 50 were killed that night with deaths ranging anywhere between 63 to 150 with all but 3 of those deaths being black Americans.  It was impossible to know the exact number of dead since the white Democrats threw most the bodies into the river.

So when discussing this awful massacre, please remember to put it into the proper context without taking away from others who have also suffered at the hands of great evil.