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Definition of Massive Attack in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ... See more at attack. (Definition of massive and attack from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of massive attack. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.
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Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. The group currently consists of Del Naja and Daddy G.
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mass shooting, as defined by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an event in which one or more individuals are “actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. Implicit in this definition is the shooter’s use of a firearm.” The FBI has not set a minimum number of casualties to qualify an event as a mass shooting, but U.S. statute (the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012) defines a “mass killing” as “3 or more killings in a single incident.” For the purposes of this article, both sets of criteria will be applied to the term mass shooting, with the distinction that the shooter or shooters are not included in any fatality statistics.
Mass shootings have exacted a deadly toll on communities across the United States. According to statistics compiled by Mother Jones magazine, more than a thousand people have been killed in such attacks since 1982. American society is deeply divided on the issue of gun control, however, and these events have only intensified the debate. In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, some, including Pres. Barack Obama, called for a renewed ban on assault weapons and for tighter background checks. Others, chief among them the National Rifle Association, resisted any gun restrictions as an unacceptable infringement on the Second Amendment.
This is a partial list of mass shootings in the United States. Of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, half took place in Texas.
•University of Texas clock tower shooting (August 1, 1966)
Charles Whitman, a former U.S. Marine who had distinguished himself as an expert marksman, murdered his mother and then his wife before gathering a small arsenal and making his way to the University of Texas clock tower. He killed three people in the tower and established a secure sniper’s nest on the observation deck, some 230 feet (70 metres) above the ground. From there he rained rifle fire onto the surrounding area for some 90 minutes. Whitman’s rampage killed 14 people and wounded more than 30; it led to the creation of active shooter response teams in police forces around the country.
•San Ysidro McDonald’s shooting (July 18, 1984)
An event widely regarded as the first modern mass shooting in the U.S. began when James Huberty left his house after telling his wife that he was “hunting humans.” Armed with a shotgun, a semiautomatic pistol, and a semiautomatic variant of the Uzi submachine gun, Huberty killed 21 people in and around a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, California. Although police responded to the shooting almost immediately, they were not able to enter the restaurant or neutralize the shooter for more than an hour.
•Luby’s Cafeteria shooting (October 16, 1991)
While mass shootings are most common in the United States, there have been notable incidents in countries around the world. In many cases governments have responded to these attacks by introducing significant gun-control measures.
•École Polytechnique massacre (December 6, 1989)
Irrationally blaming his life’s troubles on feminism, Marc Lépine took a semiautomatic rifle to Montreal’s École Polytechnique engineering school. There he killed 14 women (sparing all the men in a classroom) and wounded 13 more people. The incident sparked a lengthy debate about gun control in Canada.
•Dunblane school massacre (March 13, 1996)
Armed with four handguns, Thomas Hamilton entered the gymnasium at the primary school in the small town of Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire on a class of five- and six-year-olds. He killed 17 people, almost all of whom were small children, and wounded 15 more. In 1997 Parliament banned the private ownership of handguns in the United Kingdom.
•Port Arthur massacre (April 28–29, 1996)
very large in size, amount, or number: They have a massive house. She died after taking a massive overdose of drugs. If the drought continues, deaths will occur on a massive scale. Synonyms. astronomical (LARGE) informal. big (LARGE) colossal. elephantine formal. enormous. gargantuan. giant. gigantic. ginormous informal. goodly old-fashioned.
massive attack translation in English - English Reverso dictionary, see also 'massively, massé, Massine, massiveness', examples, definition, conjugation
