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.....
“An archived account of the worst school massacre in US history. It occurred in 1927.”
People in the media have ONLY short term memories, only sensationalist agendas and are not taught to do ANY original research. Even if they had done the research and found the historical record, reducing the current events to something less than the worst such disaster ever would not have served their agenda.
Note that they’re focusing on the tool used, not the results. Worse events have happened (Bath) but, as they used different tools, are not counted in todays news - as doing so would disrupt the agenda.
You can sure buy ammonium nitrate though...
Gunpowder and black powder aren't hard to come by (or make) and you can make lethal devices pretty easily.
There is no 'safety', there are only preparedness and vigilance. We need more guns in the right hands, and better enforcement of existing laws.
This event is being advertised on the MSM as the greatest massacre in US history. It isn’t. Not even in the same league.
How do you make gunpowder?
saltpeter(potassium nitrate), sulfur, and burnt paper(carbon)
Any particular percentage of each?
Depends on the purity of the ingredients and what result you want. Do you want a big bang, lot of smoke, etc.
Different options are all interesting.
And how do you make saltpeter?
Generally, you don't. You buy it.
We just got it at the drug store. Got the sulfur there also.
With all of the gun bills that have been brought up by Jones, Daily, Blago and Madigan it is going to be a rough time to be an Illinois gun owner in the next few months.
It's critical that the MSM use the word 'shooting' in their stories. The story must be about guns, not people.............. FRegards
If I wanted to make smokeless gunpowder, I'd go for guncotton instead. Soak cotton in concentrated nitric acid, then let it dry. Be careful with it once dry. Pretty complicated stuff. ;-)
Black powder is charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter ground and mixed in the correct proportions (readily available on the Inet, just don't have 'em handy). Not rocket science either.
I wonder why they always get that order backwards? :(
The explosive power of gasoline is greater than dynamite weight for weight, and it's certainly readily available...
Read up on fuel-air explosives for more information.
School massacre yes -- but it doesn't even come close to being the worst massacre in US history.
Consider: The Mountain Meadows Massacre on September 11, 1857
A wagon train consisting of about 150 settlers plus 600-1,000 head of beef crossed through Utah on the way to Southern California. Mormons staged an Indian raid (according to the Army investigation), conned the wagon train into surrendering into their protective custody, and then slaughtered about 130 adults and teens (sparing only the children 8 years old and younger).
It was the worst murder of civilians in this country's history until the Oklahoma City bombing, and remains our nation's worst murder/robbery ever.
wow...another Sept. 11! Why does the 2001 one not fall into the massacre category?
I read about that in Krakauer’s book, Under the Banner of Heaven. About a year later I passed through the town in Arkansas where that wagon train originated. There is a monument in the town square commemorating the massacre.
I totally forgot about that — you are correct. Good post.
I Agree!
How do you make gunpowder?
Watch Star Trek and learn how to make gun powered.
Episode "Arena"
Sulu: We have stopped dead in space.
Metron: You are here on a violent mission. Prepare to settle this our way -- Captains go one-on-one to the death, the loser's ship is destroyed.
Kirk: (poof)
Kirk: Yikes, it's Godzilla
The Gorn starship Commander
Kirk: You massacred humans. DIE! DIEDIEDIE--
Gorn: You were tressspasssing.
Kirk: That's just because we haven't heard of the Prime Directive yet.
The fight against cpt. Kirk begins
The Gorn attacks!
Kirk: Now if I only had an explosive because I'm getting my a$$ kicked
Kirk Gets Away!!!
Dazed and Confused....
Captain's Log: I'm just babbling on, and that lizard is listening. There are diamonds here, though there are no women around, and several other minerals, including sulfur and potassium nitrate.
How I would know is beyond my comprehension.
Metron: Enterprise crew, you may watch your captain's final moments.
Gorn attacks again....
Spock: He's on to something. Now if he could only find some coal.
Sulu: He should have brought his stocking from last Christmas.
Cpt. Kirk has the secret weapon!
Makeshift cannon: BOOM
Gorn: Ssso, you got me. End it quickly.
Kirk: You're the villain, I should hiss at you; however, I won't kill you.
Metron: You showed unexpected mercy. Want the Gorn ship destroyed?
Kirk: Nah. I won't be able to gloat as much then.
Metron: We'll be in touch when we're ready.
Kirk: Soon?
Metron: If a thousand years is soon to you, then yes.
Kirk: The Metrons took us clear across the galaxy.
Spock: Evidently our luggage is still in the Metron system.
McCoy: Jim, you seem a bit sad.
Kirk: Yes -- all that action, and I never even got my shirt ripped!
(The Enterprise warps off at Ludicrous Speed)
Kirk's ingenuity saves the Enterprise
and Scotty happily celebrates!
THE END
It’s... it’s... it’s green!
Best laugh of the day. Thanks!
What a sick man Kehoe was.
In retrospect, Kirk should have been able to rig at least a mini-gun in that episode. So the Federation is advanced, eh? Ha!
Good stuff!
How many children died at their daycare school in the Murrah Building in 1995?
No surprise, history to the liberal mind starts new every morning, especially when you can use it as propaganda tool against conservative issues
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