Posted on 04/17/2007 6:24:55 AM PDT by saganite
With all due respect and sympathy to the victims and their families of the Columbine and McDonald's shootings, the Oklahoma bombing, and other mass murders, they were not the worst mass murders of children in the US.
On May 18, 1927, 45 people, mostly children, were killed and 58 were injured when disgruntled and demented school board member Andrew Kehoe dynamited the new school building in Bath, Michigan out of revenge over his foreclosed farm due in part to the taxes required to pay for the new school.
Actually it was a double bombing. He blew up the school then he blew himself up.
Spome of the dynamite (about 400 lbs) didn’t go off or it would have been much worse.
Thanks, I thought I remembered reading about that.
Most are saying worse school shooting now.
Yea, but guns sound more dangerous than dynamite.
This incident didn’t count, since it can’t be used as fodder to disarm Americans.
It didn’t take Chicago king Daley long to hype his views on taking away guns from everyone in Illinois.
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Posted: Tuesday, 17 April 2007 7:23AM
Daley: ‘Too Many Guns In Our Society’
CHICAGO (CBS 2) - Mass murder in the mountains of southwestern Virginia cast a pall over political events here in Chicago, briefly silencing even the city’s Olympics celebration in the Loop.
As CBS 2’s Political Editor Mike Flannery reports, Mayor Daley was especially upset.
Several thousand people Monday celebrated Chicago becoming the U.S. nominee for host city of the 2016 Olympics. But the festive mood turned mournful when the mayor, a longtime advocate of strict gun control laws, told the crowd of the slaughter in Virginia.
“I don’t care what people think about it, to the left or to the right, there are too many guns in our society,” Daley said. “Too many children have lost their lives in this great country.”
Daley then asked the crowd for a moment of silence to remember those murdered in Virginia.
While lawmakers on Capitol Hill also observed a moment of silence for the dozens of dead and wounded, Illinois’s Sen. Barack Obama expressed his concern.
“I can only imagine what it must be like for parents right now who probably still can’t get in touch with their kids from all over the country,” Obama said at a Chicagco fundraising event. “And we pray for them.”
As he arrived a few minutes earlier, Obama had declined to follow Daley in connecting the shootings to the political debate over gun control.
“We’ve got to wait and see what the details are as they come out,” Obama said. “But I would think the notion that a single gunman could kill as many as 20 or 30 people, and injure that same amount in a relatively short period of time would indicate that there’s some sort of automatic or semi-automatic weapon. But I don’t know that for certain.”
All we know at this point comes from FBI agents and others from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They are reportedly saying that the killer had two handguns, multiple clips of ammunition and was wearing body armor.
I don’t know about that. I can’t buy dynamite at my local feed and seed store. How about you?
He wasn’t just a school board member. He was also the janitor.
“I don’t know about that. I can’t buy dynamite at my local feed and seed store. How about you?”
Maybe you could 80 years ago.
There you go again expecting the Laimstream media hacks to actually do some research before they report on something.....
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