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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 109432" data-attributes="member: 314">I HATE cut and paste and I make no guarantees about the accuracy of the numbers, but this is part of the history of govt. gun control in this nation.  What will prevent this from being repeated??  Being armed and able to defend myself and my family jumps to mind.  Promises that "For your own safety and protection we demand you surrender your guns as we will take care of you" don't quite fill me with confidence. The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890,[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre#cite_note-nps-5" target="_blank">[5]</a>[/SUP] near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Creek" target="_blank">Wounded Knee Creek</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language" target="_blank">Lakota</a>: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_people" target="_blank">Lakota</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation" target="_blank">Pine Ridge Indian Reservation</a> in the U.S. state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota" target="_blank">South Dakota</a>.The previous day, a detachment of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Cavalry_Regiment_(United_States)" target="_blank">U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment</a> commanded by Major <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whitside" target="_blank">Samuel M. Whitside</a> intercepted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Elk" target="_blank">Spotted Elk</a>'s band of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniconjou" target="_blank">Miniconjou</a> Lakota and 38 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunkpapa" target="_blank">Hunkpapa</a> Lakota near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine_Butte" target="_blank">Porcupine Butte</a> and escorted them 5 miles (8.0 km) westward to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp. The remainder of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Forsyth" target="_blank">James W. Forsyth</a>, arrived and surrounded the encampment. The regiment was supported by a battery of four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1875_Mountain_Gun" target="_blank">Hotchkiss mountain guns</a>.[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[6]</a>[/SUP]On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Coyote" target="_blank">Black Coyote</a> was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it.[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre#cite_note-7" target="_blank">[7]</a>[/SUP] A scuffle over the rifle escalated, and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their fellow soldiers. The Lakota warriors who still had weapons began shooting back at the attacking soldiers, who quickly suppressed the Lakota fire. The surviving Lakota fled, but cavalrymen pursued and killed many who were unarmed.By the time it was over, more than 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded (4 men and 47 women and children, some of whom died later); some estimates placed the number of dead at 300.[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre#cite_note-8" target="_blank">[8]</a>[/SUP] Twenty-five soldiers also died, and 39 were wounded (6 of the wounded later died).[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre#cite_note-9" target="_blank">[9]</a>[/SUP] At least twenty soldiers were awarded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor" target="_blank">Medal of Honor</a>.[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre#cite_note-JerryGreen-10" target="_blank">[10]</a>[/SUP] In 2001, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Congress_of_American_Indians" target="_blank">National Congress of American Indians</a> passed two resolutions condemning the awards and called on the U.S. government to rescind them.[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre#cite_note-Congress-11" target="_blank">[11]</a>[/SUP] The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Battlefield" target="_blank">site of the battlefield</a> has been designated a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" target="_blank">National Historic Landmark</a>.[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre#cite_note-nps-5" target="_blank">[5]</a>Keep in mind this action was a federally backed operation with the expressed purpose of disarming these people.[/SUP]</blockquote>

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