#11 - On July 18th, 1984, a 41-year-old lone gunman walked into a southern California McDonald’s fast food restaurant. But he wasn’t there to order any food. Instead, he pulled out one of three firearms he had brought with him and started shooting everyone inside the restaurant. Employees and customers all became targets.

After 77 minutes, 21 people were killed, and 19 others were seriously wounded by the shooting. At the time, the massacre became the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. And today, it remains the most fatal mass shooting in California history.

You know what happened, now let’s uncover…why.

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