The Las Vegas shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history
49 dead – Orlando nightclub, June 2016: Omar Mateen launched a shooting attack on a LGBT nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 people and injuring 58 more. Mateen, who worked as a security guard, walked into a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, with a handgun and AR-15 semi-automatic rifle before police stormed the club and fatally shot him.
32 dead – Virginia Tech, April 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, a student at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32 people and injured 17 others in two separate attacks around two hours apart. Cho, who had been accused of stalking two girls and declared mentally ill was allowed to purchase two pistols in the run up to the attack.
26 dead – Sandy Hook Elementary School, December 2012: Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza shot dead 20 children aged between six and seven in an attack that appalled the world. In the early hours of the morning Lanza shot his mother in the head before driving her car to the school and murdering 26 others.
23 dead – Luby’s Cafeteria, October 1991: George Hennard, drove his pickup truck through the front window of the restaurant, and immediately shot and killed 23 people, and wounded 27 others before fatally shooting himself.
21 dead – San Ysidro McDonald’s Restaurant, July 1984: Father of two, 41-year-old James Huberty, shot and killed 21 people and injured 19 others before being fatally shot by a team sniper at a San Francisco fast-food diner. He is reported to have told his wife before leaving the house that he was ‘going hunting humans’.
14 dead – San Bernardino, December 2015: Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, opened fire at a social services center in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding more than 20. They fled the scene but died hours later in a shootout with police.
14 dead – Edmond post office, August 1986: Going on a mass rampage, postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot twenty co-workers, killing fourteen of them, before committing suicide himself.
13 dead – University of Texas Tower, August 1966: A model student and Eagle Scout who went on to become a Marine sharpshooter, Charles Whitman took to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas and shot 13 people.
13 dead – Columbine High School, April 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people in a meticulously planned attack that involved a firebomb used as a diversion and and stacks of explosives laid around their high school. The pair shot and killed 12 students and one teacher in an attack that reignited the US gun control policy.
13 dead – Fort Hood, Texas, November 2009: Thirteen soldiers and civilians were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a gunman walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and opened fire. The shooter Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was convicted on 13 counts of premeditated murder and sentenced to death.