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People come out from a building with their hands up after a shooting at Washington Navy Yard Sept. 16, 2013. Thirteen people, including suspected gunman Aaron Alexis, were killed.

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Newtown, Conn. Lone gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, killed 20 students and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School Dec. 14, 2012. Earlier, he fatally shot his mother at their Newtown home. Lanza killed himself after the rampage.

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Oak Creek, Wis. A gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin Aug. 5, 2012. The six people killed by Wade Mi­chael Page ranged in age from 39 to 84 years old. The gunman was later killed by police.

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Aurora, Colo. James Holmes is charged with 152 counts in the July, 20 2012 shooting that killed 12 people and wounded 58 others in an Aurora, Colo. movie theater during a loc­al premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises."

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Tucson, Ariz. Candles surround a portrait of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head Jan. 8, 2011 in Tuscon, Ariz. Six people were killed and 11 others injured. Jared Lee Lough­ner pleaded guilty to 19 charges of murder and was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences.

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Manchester, Conn. People gathered outside of Manchester High School after Omar S. Thornton went on a shooting spree Aug. 3, 2010 at Hartford Distributors, a family-owned beer and wine wholesaler. He killed eight people and then himself.

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Fort Hood Army Maj. Nidal Malik Nadal Hasan, 39, was convicted in August 2013 for killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 during a shooting spree at Fort Hood Army Base Nov. 5, 2009. He was sentenced to death.

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Northern Illinois University Pallbearers carry the remains of 32-year-old Julianna Gehant to the gravesite following funeral services at Holy Cross Church in Mendota, Ill. Gehant was one of five students killed on the campus of Northern Illinois University when former student Steve Kazmierczak opened fire before killing himself in a lecture hall Feb. 14, 2008.

Sixteen other students were injured in the rampage.

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Omaha, Neb. A man enters St. John's Church in Omaha, Neb. during vigil at Creighton University for the victims of shooting at the Westroads Mall Dec. 6, 2007.

Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, opened fire on shoppers at the mall, killing at least eight people and injuring four others. He killed himself at the scene.

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Virginia Tech Mourners hug following a moment of silence at a makeshift memorial to the shooting victims in Blacksburg, Va.

Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Vir­gin­ia Tech seni­or, opened fire on cam­pus April 16, 2007, killing 32 people before shooting himself.

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Salt Lake City, Utah A Salt Lake City police officer squats with his gun drawn next to a body inside the mall after a gunman opened fire in the Trolley Square shopping mall on February 12, 2007.

Sule­j­man Talovic, 18, killed five people and injured four others. He was fatally shot at the scene.

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Lancaster County, Pa. Charles Carl Roberts shot 10 girls in a one-room Amish schoolhouse Oct. 2, 2006 before killing himself. Five of the girls died.

Officials say Roberts was planning to sexually assault the victims. He carried lubricant jelly, plastic flex-cuffs and heavy bolts that could have been used to restrain the children, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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Goleta, Calif. Investigators examine evidence in the parking lot of a United States Postal Service mail facility where a former part-time postal worker opened fire Jan. 30, 2006 in Goleta, Calif.

Jennifer San Marco killed five people, critically wounded another and then committed suicide at the facility.

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Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minn. Survivor Lance Crowe, left, listens to cousin and fellow survivor Cody Thunder during a press conference at the North Country Regional Hospital in Bemidji, Minn. Crowe and Thunder survived a school shooting at the Red Lake Senior High School March 21, 2005 on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.

High school student Jeff Weise opened fire at the school and killed seven people. Weise had earlier killed his grandfather and his companion.

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Brookfield, Wis. White crosses show the names of shooting victims outside the Sheraton Hotel in Brookfield, Wis.

Gunman Terry Ratzmann, opened fire at the hotel March 12, 2005, killing seven people prior to committing suicide during a church service at the Living Church of God.

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Columbus, Ohio Former Pantera guitarist Darrell Abbot, also known as Dimebag Darrell, was killed by a concertgoer during a Dec. 8, 2004 show in Columbus, Ohio.

Nathan Gale jumped on stage during the performance and killed Darrell plus another member of Damageplan. Four people, including the shooter, were killed and eight others injured.

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Meridian, Miss. Lockheed Martin assembly line worker Doug Williams went on a shooting rampage that left five coworkers dead and nine others wounded before killing himself July 8, 2003 in Meridian, Miss.

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University of Arizona From left to right, University of Arizona College of Nursing professors Robin Rogers, Barbara Monroe and Cheryl McGaffic were killed Oct. 28, 2002 by Robert S. Flores. The Per­sian Gulf War vet­er­an turned the gun on himself after killing the three women on the Tuscon campus.

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El Cajon, Calif. Charles "Andy" Williams, 15, is arraigned March 7, 2001 in San Diego County Superior Court in El Cajon, Calif. Williams was charged in the shootings at Santana High School March 5, 2001 that resulted in two dead and 13 wounded. He was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.

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Melrose Park, Ill. A police car guards an entrance to the Navistar International engine plant where authorities say a workplace shooting claimed five lives Feb. 5, 2001 in Melrose Park, Ill.

A gunman believed to be a former employee killed four people and injured at least four others after walking into the plant with an AK-47 assault rifle and opening fire.

He then killed himself.

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Fort Campbell Pvt. Nicholas D. Mikel, 21, fired shots into a group of soldiers Oct. 13, 2005. No one was injured. He was sentenced to 25 years in jail.

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Wakefield, Mass. Mi­chael Mc­Der­mott kills seven coworkers at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Mass. Dec. 26, 2000. He was convicted in 2002 of seven counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

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