In the past couple of days there have been two instances of mass killings in the U.S. Both occurred in California. Guess what? In a week or so they will be forgotten. As a kid growing up Americans were familiar with what came to be referred to as The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. People were shocked and appalled that these murders could happen in this country even if they happened to be gang related.
I have a question about these and other mass killings done with guns. If we take guns away from the people will the lawless stop finding ways to kill other people?
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre shocked the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence. Gang warfare ruled the streets of Chicago during the late 1920s, as chief gangster Al Capone sought to consolidate control by eliminating his rivals in the illegal trades of bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. This rash of gang violence reached its bloody climax in a garage on the city’s North Side on February 14, 1929, when seven men associated with the Irish gangster George “Bugs” Moran, one of Capone’s longtime enemies, were shot to death by several men dressed as policemen. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, as it was known, remains an unsolved crime and was never officially linked to Capone, but he was generally considered to have been responsible for the murders. https://www.history.com/topics/crime/saint-valentines-day-massacre
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