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I'm not sure leaving out the qualifying '''peace-time''' in describing this as the largest mass shooting in the lead is accurate. I'm fairly sure there were larger incidents during times of insurrection, Civil War, Bleeding Kansas, Mormon wars, etc. The massacre at [[Battle of Fort Pillow|Ft. Pillow]] is one such example. [[User:Ronnotel|Ronnotel]] 14:06, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
:The difference is that all the non-peacetime incidents involved several killers. Here, there was only one. There needs to be a way to differentiate between mass shootings by a group (usually a military group or militia group) and mass shootings by a lone gunman. See also the section I started above at [[Talk:Virginia Tech massacre#Civilian versus military massacres]]. It seems that [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virginia_Tech_massacre&diff=123807116&oldid=123807062 this edit] was a response to what I wrote there. Oh, hang on, it was YOU! I need new glasses (or next time you could reply to my comments instead of starting a new section). :-) Anyway, I agree that [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virginia_Tech_massacre&diff=123807478&oldid=123807352 this edit], which removed peacetime to make the sentence "less awkward" is not ideal. I'll try a different wording involving "lone". [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] 14:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
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