Before Patriarch "Jacob's Trouble" is Uncle Sam's Tribulation

Before the dust can settle on another American mass shooting, this time in Chicago, we hear of a mounting death toll in Nairobi, Kenya amid an ongoing shopping-mall siege:

These two incidents have occurred barely before the ink could dry on the Huffington Post's 17th September story We've Had So Many Mass Shootings In The U.S., We've Had To Redefine The Term that outlined a spate of recent mass shootings (listed below with a local news story link with more details for each):


Sept. 16, 2013 -- Washington -- At least 12 dead (including gunman)

July 26, 2013 -- Hialeah, Fla. -- 7 dead (including gunman)

June 7, 2013 -- Santa Monica, Calif. -- 6 dead (including gunman)

April 24, 2013 -- Manchester, Ill. -- 5 dead

April 21, 2013 -- Federal Way, Wash. -- 5 dead (including gunman)

March 13, 2013 -- Herkimer County, N.Y. -- 5 dead (including gunman), one FBI K-9 dead

Dec. 14, 2012 -- Newtown, Conn. -- 27 dead (including gunman)

Sept. 27, 2012 -- Minneapolis, Minn. -- 7 dead (including gunman), 2 injured

Aug. 5, 2012 -- Oak Creek, Wis. -- 7 dead (including gunman), 4 injured

July 20, 2012 -- Aurora, Colo. -- 12 dead, 59 injured

May 31, 2012 -- Seattle, Wash. -- 6 dead (including gunman)

April 2, 2012 -- Oakland, Calif. -- 7 dead

Feb. 22, 2012 -- Norcross, Ga. -- 5 dead (including gunman)


Total Killed in US Mass Shootings over the last 18 months = 115






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