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The deadliest school massacre in US history
Quartz.com ^ | Decmber 15, 2012 | Lenore Skenazy

Posted on 12/17/2012 5:43:25 AM PST by Notary Sojac

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As usual, Lenore Skenazy gets it right, right, right.
1 posted on 12/17/2012 5:43:30 AM PST by Notary Sojac
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To: Notary Sojac

I saw an article in one of the big on-line British newspapers that declared the Connecticut shootings as the ‘worst school shooting in U.S. history’.

I almost dropped them a line to correct their assertion, but decided against it.

Who am I to argue with the top brains of mass media?


2 posted on 12/17/2012 5:47:46 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (You are not now, and will never be my President, Mr. Obama.)
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To: Notary Sojac

The leftist freaks are all excreting some “31 school shootings since 1999” — I guess to tie it all in with Bush years, but THAT’S the buzzwords they’re running with.

Saw another leftist moron proudly proclaim that “gun rights end” when her child is involved or some such horseclinton.

Hussein’s Fast and Furious American-killing gun-running wasn’t as effective as his newest “political capital” in Ct.


3 posted on 12/17/2012 5:48:01 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Correction - not shooting, but massacre. My mistake.


4 posted on 12/17/2012 5:49:35 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (You are not now, and will never be my President, Mr. Obama.)
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To: treetopsandroofs
“31 school shootings since 1999”

Setting a specific timeline at the exclusion of all of history.
5 posted on 12/17/2012 5:54:17 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Notary Sojac
Guns and dynamite are just one way to do it.

Maniacs intent on mass murder will find a way.

Please copy and share on FP, Twitter, etc.

6 posted on 12/17/2012 6:04:18 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Notary Sojac

Some of the eternally damned insist on making a grand murderous entrance into the fiery abyss below.


7 posted on 12/17/2012 6:08:27 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: Notary Sojac

Later


8 posted on 12/17/2012 6:10:03 AM PST by I_be_tc
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To: Travis McGee
Thank you.

/just wait till the Left finish their total gun control, then they will start their crusade on gasoline.....

9 posted on 12/17/2012 6:13:08 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Notary Sojac

He gets it right except for this...”The President can barely maintain composure.” I’ll never believe that the kenyan has a caring bone in his boney little body except for himself.


10 posted on 12/17/2012 6:13:50 AM PST by albie
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We attended our youngest’s graduation ceremony yesterday at Appalachian State, held in their indoor convocation center/arena. Just inside each entry door were “bag check” tables that the crowd had to file past in order to gain entry. ONLY THE PEOPLE with bags were checked (the majority women w/pocketbooks). No metal detecting pass-thru’s, no wanding, no frisking. Practically all men walked right by without a glance from the student bag-checkers.

I asked my mother-in-law “What do you think they were looking for?” She said...”I don’t know...guns maybe?” I DID NOT SAY...”Oh, you mean like the one in my pocket?” (No, I didn’t have one.) I didn’t tell her what I thought about the situation because she’s old...didn’t need her to pass out right there.

I knew the answer, of course, because the same procedure is used at the football games (and other athletic events). No bag, free pass thru. I’d even asked a bag-checker once and was told alcohol and weapons.

It was hard to relax during the graduation ceremony.


11 posted on 12/17/2012 6:32:05 AM PST by moovova
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It wasn’t a school massacre, but the worst massacre of children was at Waco.


12 posted on 12/17/2012 6:35:31 AM PST by jammer
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Apparently there is no other newsworthy event taking place in the entire world.

Even FOX has been going 24/7 on the Newtown school killings.

Imagine this headline and article:

2,800 Pre-Schoolers Killed Yesterday

Yesterday approximately 2,800 babies were killed in abortion mills around the USA.
This is typical of an average day, 365 days per year, year after year.
However, the daily average has been dropping in the last decade and federal officials are puzzled as to the cause.
Officials have taken steps to prevent further reductions including various programs to make abortions free, or more
affordable, through various programs that subsidize the industry.


13 posted on 12/17/2012 6:39:54 AM PST by Iron Munro (I MISS AMERICA !)
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What would it cost to have two former GIs as school security guards armed with MP 5s at each school? Would that not be a deterrent and an opportunity for discharged Vets?


14 posted on 12/17/2012 6:40:24 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Who we elect is not as important as who they bring in with them.)
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To: albie

Ditto that


15 posted on 12/17/2012 6:47:07 AM PST by equaviator
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To: Notary Sojac

And there’s our kneejerk reactionary in chief decrying “US will have to change”.

http://www.exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-deadliest-school-massacre-in-us.html


16 posted on 12/17/2012 6:48:37 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Notary Sojac

Absolutely. I’ve stated this about our view of history. The AmRev did not have any real images at all, and news T best might reach people the next day. No immediacy, no urgency. And for posterity, we hardly identify with this heroic conflict. ACW there were photos of real dead bodies and other real men, and telegraphs and locomotives could bring all that news faster. People got more shocked and posterity better understood how men lived and died and cared more about them. WWII we have film and see everything, and people then could get news almost instantaneously.

That’s part of why there is more knee-jerk reaction instead of reason in these matters. We see it as it happens and are worried how we can save everyone who is in the crisis, and when we can’t, project it to action for future incidents. In the old days it wasn’t immediate and in our grasp, so no-one rushed to judgement and hand-wrung about what to do, because the crisis was well past.


17 posted on 12/17/2012 6:50:53 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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have two former GIs as school security guards armed with MP 5s at each school

Horrible idea, misses the whole point of the article.

Schools are already as safe as they are ever going to be in a free country.

18 posted on 12/17/2012 6:52:10 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Only liberals believe that people can be made virtuous via legislative enactment.)
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Liberals create “Gun Free Zones” that are the most dangerous places in American.


19 posted on 12/17/2012 7:00:38 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: albie

Obama did the worst ‘fake crying’ from a politician that I have ever seen

He wiped his eye on the side that tears dont come from, then wiped his finger down his cheek...as if he was searching for or trying to remember where tears are supposed to come from


20 posted on 12/17/2012 7:00:44 AM PST by Mr. K (some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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