re: #351 lawhawk

I think it’s to give context to mass shootings and the fact that there have been mass shootings before this, many of them lynchings/massacres, including Wounded Knee.

Many of them were carried out on racial grounds - attacking black enclaves or Native American settlements. Many are forgotten to most.

Wounded Knee is just one of many - and I had the opportunity to visit that part of the Black Hills some years back. It’s quite moving, and its remoteness also means many skip it when visiting the area. It’s far more likely you’ll see Mt. Rushmore than Wounded Knee - even though the whole area is still claimed by Native Americans and they have a superior claim based on the US Government violating the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

But, you know, it doesn’t really give any context to mass shootings. In fact it robs them of context. The context here is that these mass shootings keep happening and keep getting bigger. That’s the point of ‘largest mass shooting in modern US history’.

I mean, am I supposed to say, “Oh, well, I feel better about Las Vegas, since there are so many worse killings of large groups in our history!”

Wounded Knee wasn’t even the largest massacre of Native Americans by troops and/or settlers. There are MUCH worse massacres than that.