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The 1927 Bombing That Remains America’s Deadliest School Massacre
Smithsonian ^ | May 18, 2017 | Lorraine Boissoneault

Posted on 06/02/2022 9:19:30 AM PDT by Leaning Right

Columbine. Virginia Tech. University of Texas. Sandy Hook. America’s terrible history of school shootings is a list whose members can’t be named alone. Talk about any single one, and the others always hover on the periphery. But one name rarely gets mentioned among the others, the oldest and deadliest school massacre in U.S. history: the Bath School bombing.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: bombing; education; marijuanausers; michigan; school
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To: ThunderSleeps
...if you hold on to lefty liberal beliefs you are by definition un-informed, ill-informed, or just plain clinically delusional.

Or an outright liar...lying to yourself.

21 posted on 06/02/2022 10:01:07 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Leaning Right
Thanks for the article, I grew up in New England and never heard of this.

48 people dead in this massacre.

Interesting sidenote that the Charles Lindbergh Atlantic crossing knocked this story off the front pages.

22 posted on 06/02/2022 10:04:21 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,172,094 active users on Truth Social)
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To: faucetman

So NOT the gun lobby but the bomb lobby. Get it straight branDUHn.


23 posted on 06/02/2022 10:06:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: dainbramaged

> he murderer was determined to say the least. <

And that’s a key point. These monsters are all determined. None of them is going to say, “I can’t get an assault rifle because they are no longer available. So I’m going to forget my massacre plan, and go take a nap instead.”

No, they are just going to look for other lethal means. That’s why we are wasting our time trying to ban these so-called assault rifles.


24 posted on 06/02/2022 10:07:51 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

Banning certain firearms will be about as effective as controlling the flow of fentanyl.


25 posted on 06/02/2022 10:08:24 AM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: Leaning Right

Some jerk will take this as a challenge.


26 posted on 06/02/2022 10:09:13 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: TexasGator

Damn straight, sward. How many innocent kids do you think you could take out dropping 50,000 tons of dirt and grass on them? They’ll outlaw dirt and grass next.


27 posted on 06/02/2022 10:12:08 AM PDT by _longranger81
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To: IYAS9YAS

Almost all....


28 posted on 06/02/2022 10:12:18 AM PDT by neverbluffer
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To: Leaning Right
Also, to add to your point, making "assault rifles" illegal will actually make them even more available - to the criminal element. Only law-abiding citizens will be disarmed.

Whenever something is "banned", black markets immediately pop up. During Prohibition, more people than ever were consuming alcohol because drinking at speakeasies became a fashionable trend.

Even at the height of the Soviet Union in the 1970s, forbidden blue jeans and rock music albums could be had at various black markets.

29 posted on 06/02/2022 10:13:43 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,172,094 active users on Truth Social)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Gun control laws do exactly what they are intended to do, which is to punish and harass lawful gun owners. Liberals’ hatred for those who disagree with them vastly outweighs their concern for innocent lives. Caring about anything beyond their agenda is just a pretext to advance their sick dystopia.


30 posted on 06/02/2022 10:15:05 AM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: Leaning Right
Although this wasn't a gun/bombing of a school, a terrible tragedy happened in Liberty, TX where a natural gas explosion kills nearly 300 at Texas school.

Nearly 300 students in Texas are killed by an explosion of natural gas at their school on March 18, 1937. Due to this tragedy a scent was put into natural gas and other gasses like this such as propane.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/natural-gas-explosion-kills-schoolchildren-in-texas

31 posted on 06/02/2022 10:18:20 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: poinq

Interesting about China: a few years ago a madman went into a school and knifed a bunch of students. He was detained at the scene. Tried, convicted, appeals, and executed within 30 days. We need to do that here of course.


32 posted on 06/02/2022 10:20:22 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Leaning Right

Bttt


33 posted on 06/02/2022 10:25:59 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: Leaning Right

https://youtu.be/TMnr79n0qIg

34 posted on 06/02/2022 10:29:03 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Deo volente

Yep, it happens a lot there. They have guards at every kindergarten in China. They have poles so they can trap the knife attackers. The poles have Ys on the end to pin them against the wall.


35 posted on 06/02/2022 10:33:24 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Karl Spooner
I'd say she doesn't look a day older than 90.

Oldest woman in Michigan, 113, survivor of 1927 Bath School Bombing, recalls school massacre

36 posted on 06/02/2022 10:39:37 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Leaning Right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting


37 posted on 06/02/2022 10:51:56 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: Leaning Right

8f the lerps are shot y armed teachers and armed guards o. School grounds before they can do damage, or do much damage, the incidents of school shootings will drop to near zero. Those who do decide to go,after schools will be met with deadly force by armed teachers and guards, and will be prevented from doing much damage.

Democrats don’t want solutions because it interferes with their agenda to deny law abiding citizens their inalienable right to self defence


38 posted on 06/02/2022 10:52:35 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Karl Spooner

Nice. I think she looks pretty good, too!


39 posted on 06/02/2022 10:55:49 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: jroehl

A good friend’s father was killed by that mad man.


40 posted on 06/02/2022 10:58:25 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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