Lets look at the history, shall we?
Historic church shootings in the U.S. include the 2017 Sutherland Springs, Texas, attack (26 killed), the 2015 Charleston, SC, massacre (9 Black worshippers killed by a white supremacist), and the 2009 shooting of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas, by an anti-abortion extremist, alongside others like the 2022 Laguna Woods incident targeting Taiwanese-Americans, highlighting a range of motivations from racial hatred to extremist ideologies. These events, though varying in scale and cause, underscore a tragic pattern of violence targeting places of worship, often fueled by extremist beliefs or personal grievances.
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