shootings, massacres, and history

Today's shooting in Virginia.

A history of Native American Massacres.

Tulsa, 1921

I am posting these links because someone is calling the shooting today "the deadliest in US history" or "modern history". I guess that might be true if you thought US history started a few years ago. I immediately thought of Native Americans slaughtered by Europeans on somewhat larger "shooting rampages". I guess this just points to how violent this country is and has been and how clueless people are about that sometimes. Today's events are horrible and senseless of course as are all these incidents of mass killings. There is a tendency in this country in the media and otherwise to try to see current violence as a new phenomenon, when in fact it is part of a long and obvious trail of blood.