Here’s a listing of the most famous mass shootings in US history from 1982 through 2015. This list is by no means complete, but it covers the vast majority of mass shooting incidents.
There are 70 incidents on this list. Out of those, 38 ended by the gunman/gunmen committing suicide, 22 ended in arrests, 9 were shot by police, and 1 was shot by a witness.In NO CASE did a gunman surrender willingly, without an armed police presence.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.
| SHOOTER NAME | INCIDENT TITLE | LOCATION | STATE | SHOOTING DATE | INJ/KILLED | RESOLUTION |
| Carl Robert Brown | Welding Shop | Miami | FL | 8/20/1982 | 11 | SHOT BY WITNESS |
| Abdelkrim Belachheb | Dallas Nightclub | Dallas | TX | 6/29/1984 | 7 | ARRESTED |
| James Oliver Huberty | San Ysidro McDonalds | San Ysidro | CA | 7/18/1984 | 41 | SHOT BY COPS |
| Patrick Sherrill | US Postal Service | Edmond | OK | 8/20/1986 | 21 | SUICIDE |
| William Cruse | Palm Bay Shopping Center | Palm Bay | FL | 4/23/1987 | 6 | ARRESTED |
| Richard Farley | ESL | Sunnyvale | CA | 2/16/1988 | 11 | ARRESTED |
| Patrick Purdy | Stockton Schoolyard | Stockton | CA | 1/17/1989 | 35 | SUICIDE |
| Joseph T. Wesbecker | Standard Gravure | Louisville | KY | 9/14/1989 | 21 | SUICIDE |
| James Edward Pough | GMAC Massacre | Jacksonville | FL | 6/18/1990 | 14 | SUICIDE |
| George Hennard | Luby’s Cafeteria Massacre | Killeen | TX | 10/16/1991 | 44 | SUICIDE |
| Gang Lu | University of Iowa | Iowa City | IA | 11/1/1991 | 7 | SUICIDE |
| Thomas McIlvane | Royal Oak Postal | Royal Oak | MI | 11/14/1991 | 10 | SUICIDE |
| Eric Houston | Lindhurst High School | Olivehurst | CA | 5/1/1992 | 14 | ARRESTED |
| John T. Miller | Watkins Glen Killings | Watkins Glen | NY | 10/15/1992 | 5 | SUICIDE |
| Gian Luigi Ferri | 101 California Street | San Francisco | CA | 7/1/1993 | 15 | SUICIDE |
| Kenneth Junior French | Luigi’s Shooting | Fayetteville | NC | 8/6/1993 | 12 | ARRESTED |
| Colin Ferguson | Long Island Rail Road Massacre | Garden City | NY | 12/7/1993 | 25 | ARRESTED |
| Nathan Dunlap | Chuck E. Cheese’s Killings | Aurora | CO | 12/14/1993 | 4 | ARRESTED |
| Dean Allen Mellberg | Fairchild AFB | Spokane | WA | 6/20/1994 | 28 | SHOT BY COPS |
| James Daniel Simpson | Walter Rossler Company Massacre | Corpus Christi | TX | 4/3/1995 | 6 | SUICIDE |
| Clifton McCree | Fort Lauderdale Revenge Shooting | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 2/9/1996 | 5 | SUICIDE |
| Hastings Arthur Wise | R. E. Phelon Company | Aiken | SC | 9/15/1997 | 7 | ARRESTED |
| Arturo Reyes Torres | Caltrans Maintenance Yard | Orange | CA | 12/18/1997 | 7 | SHOT BY COPS |
| Matthew Beck | Connecticut Lottery | Newington | CT | 3/6/1998 | 6 | SUICIDE |
| Mitchell Scott Johnson, Andrew Douglas Golden | Westside Middle School | Jonesboro | AR | 3/24/1998 | 15 | ARRESTED |
| Kipland P. Kinkel | Thurston High School | Springfield | OR | 5/21/1998 | 29 | ARRESTED |
| Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold | Columbine High School | Littleton | CO | 4/20/1999 | 39 | SUICIDE |
| Mark O. Barton | Atlanta Day Trade | Atlanta | GA | 7/29/1999 | 22 | SUICIDE |
| Larry Gene Ashbrook | Wedgwood Baptist Church | Fort Worth | TX | 9/15/1999 | 15 | SUICIDE |
| Byran Koji Uyesugi | Xerox Killings | Honolulu | HI | 11/2/1999 | 7 | ARRESTED |
| Silvio Leyva | Radisson Bay Hotel | Tampa | FL | 12/30/1999 | 8 | ARRESTED |
| Michael McDermott | Wakefield Massacre | Wakefield | MA | 12/26/2000 | 7 | ARRESTED |
| William D. Baker | Navistar Shooting | Melrose Park | IL | 2/5/2001 | 9 | SUICIDE |
| Douglas Williams | Lockheed Martin | Meridian | MS | 7/8/2003 | 15 | SUICIDE |
| Nathan Gale | Damageplan Show Shooting | Columbus | OH | 12/8/2003 | 12 | SHOT BY COPS |
| Terry Michael Ratzmann | Living Church of God Shooting | Brookfield | WI | 3/12/2005 | 11 | SUICIDE |
| Jeffrey Weise | Red Lake Massacre | Red Lake | MN | 3/21/2005 | 15 | SUICIDE |
| Jennifer San Marco | Goleta Postal Shooting | Goleta | CA | 1/30/2006 | 8 | SUICIDE |
| Kyle Aaron Huff | Capitol Hill Massacre | Capitol Hill | WA | 3/25/2006 | 9 | SUICIDE |
| Charles Carl Roberts | Amish School Shooting | Bart Township | PA | 10/2/2006 | 11 | SUICIDE |
| Sulejman Talovi | Trolley Square Shooting | Salt Lake City | UT | 2/12/2006 | 10 | SHOT BY COPS |
| Seung-Hui Cho | Virginia Tech Massacre | Blacksburg | VA | 4/16/2006 | 56 | SUICIDE |
| Tyler Peterson | Crandon Shooting | Crandon | WI | 10/7/2006 | 7 | SUICIDE |
| Robert A. Hawkins | Westroads Mall | Omaha | NE | 12/5/2006 | 13 | SUICIDE |
| Charles Lee Thornton | Kirkwood City Council | Kirkwood | MO | 2/7/2008 | 8 | SHOT BY COPS |
| Steven Kazmierczak | Northern Illinois University | DeKalb | IL | 2/14/2008 | 27 | SUICIDE |
| Wesley Neal Higdon | Atlantis Plastics | Henderson | KY | 6/25/2008 | 7 | SUICIDE |
| Robert Stewart | Carthage Nursing Home | Carthage | NC | 3/29/2009 | 11 | ARRESTED |
| Jiverly Wong | Binghamton Shooting | Binghamton | NY | 4/3/2009 | 18 | SUICIDE |
| Nidal Malik Hassan | Fort Hood Massacre | Fort Hood | TX | 11/5/2009 | 43 | ARRESTED |
| Maurice Clemmons | Coffee Shop Police Killings | Parkland | WA | 11/29/2009 | 5 | SHOT BY COPS |
| Omar S. Thornton | Hartford Beer Distributor | Manchester | CT | 8/3/2010 | 11 | SUICIDE |
| Jared Loughner | Tucson Shooting (Gabby Giffords) | Tucson | AZ | 1/8/2011 | 19 | ARRESTED |
| Eduardo Sencion | IHOP Shooting | Carson City | NV | 9/6/2011 | 12 | SUICIDE |
| Scott Evans Dekraai | Seal Beach Shooting | Seal Beach | CA | 10/14/2011 | 9 | ARRESTED |
| Jeong Soo Paek | Su Jung Health Sauna | Atlanta | GA | 2/22/2012 | 5 | SUICIDE |
| Thomas “TJ” Lane | Chardon High School | Chardon | OH | 2/27/2012 | 6 | ARRESTED |
| One L. Goh | Oikos University | Oakland | CA | 4/2/2012 | 10 | ARRESTED |
| Jake England, Alvin Watts | Tulsa Racial Shooting | Tulsa | OK | 4/6/2012 | 3 | ARRESTED |
| Ian Stawicki | Seattle Cafe Shooting | Seattle | WA | 5/20/2012 | 7 | SUICIDE |
| James Holmes | Aurora Theater Shooting | Aurora | CO | 7/20/2012 | 70 | ARRESTED |
| Wade Michael Page | Sikh Temple Shooting | Oak Creek | WI | 8/5/2012 | 10 | SUICIDE |
| Andrew Engeldinger | Accent Signage Systems | Minneapolis | MN | 9/27/2012 | 8 | SUICIDE |
| Adam Lanza | Newtown School Shooting | Newtown | CT | 12/14/2012 | 28 | SUICIDE |
| John Zawahri | Santa Monica College | Santa Monica | CA | 6/7/2013 | 5 | SHOT BY COPS |
| Aaron Alexis | Washington Navy Yard | Washington | DC | 9/16/2013 | 12 | SHOT BY COPS |
| Ivan Lopez | Fort Hood Massacre 2.0 | Fort Hood | TX | 4/2/2014 | 19 | SUICIDE |
| Elliot Rodger | Isla Vista | Isla Vista | CA | 5/23/2014 | 13 | SUICIDE |
| Dylann Storm Roof | African Methodist Church | Charleston | SC | 6/18/2015 | 9 | ARRESTED |
| Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer | Umpqua Community College | Roseburg | OR | 10/1/2015 | 18 | SUICIDE |
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