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Originally Posted by GregWeld
If some looney-toons wants to - he could easily kill all the kids and teachers in two or more classrooms of kindergarten and first graders with a friggin' baseball bat!
What's a bunch of kindergarten kids going to do to an adult bent on committing mayhem (sorry Stielow!)? ZERO...
The whole raging gun debate is just that - a raging debate. It solves absolutely nothing.
Today we read about a whack job ex con killing volunteer firefighters... It never stops. His gun was ILLEGAL! Does he care about laws? He killed his own grandmother with a f'n' hammer! Laws mean nothing to people like this.
Until people of the world get that, there's not much to talk about.
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Crazy people will kill using whatever method available. The worst school homicide in the US was not gun related.
The lousy reality is you can't protect everyone from everything and the more you try to the less freedom will remain.
There isn't one magic bullet that will cure the ills of society. It's not that I believe we should do nothing but we should all take a breath and make sure we are thinking clearly when we discuss what to do.
I own guns. I think anyone without a criminal record by the age of 30 who goes through proper training should be allowed to conceal cary. I also don't think that weapons that are easily converted to automatic or that can accept magazines over 10 rounds should be sold to the public. JMO and those things won't solve anything over night but in the long run it couldn't hurt.
But then again I think we should stop sending billions in foreign aid to other countries while we ignore the mental health of our own citizens. If we cracked down on people who game the entitlement system and focused funds on those members of society who really can't function on their own that sure wouldn't hurt.
The list of things that need to be fixed are long. Where to start?
Just as info I posted the worst school disaster info below.
The Bath School disaster is the name given to the violent attacks of May 18, 1927 in Bath Township, Michigan, perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe, that killed 38 elementary school children,[Note 1] six adults, and also injured at least 58 other people. Kehoe first killed his wife, fire-bombed his farm and set off a major explosion in the Bath Consolidated School, and then committed suicide by detonating a final explosion in his truck. It is the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history.[1]
Andrew Kehoe, the 55 year old school board treasurer, was angry after his defeat in the Spring 1926 election for township clerk. He was thought to have planned his "murderous revenge" after that public defeat and he had a reputation for difficulty on the school board and in personal dealings. In addition, in June 1926 he was notified that his mortgage was going to be foreclosed.[2] For much of the next year, a neighbor noticed Kehoe had stopped working on his farm and thought he might be planning suicide. During that period, Kehoe carried out steps in his plan to destroy the school and his farm by purchasing and hiding explosives.
Kehoe's wife was ill with tuberculosis, and he had stopped making mortgage payments; he was under pressure for foreclosure. Some time between May 16 and the morning of May 18, 1927, Kehoe murdered his wife by hitting her on the head. On the morning of May 18 at about 8:45 a.m., he exploded incendiary devices in his house and farm buildings and the ensuing fire destroyed them.
Almost simultaneously, an explosion devastated the north wing of the school building, killing many schoolchildren. Kehoe had used a timed detonator to ignite dynamite and hundreds of pounds of incendiary pyrotol, which he had secretly planted inside the school over the course of many months. As rescuers gathered at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and used a rifle to detonate dynamite inside his shrapnel-filled truck, killing himself, the school superintendent, and several others nearby, as well as injuring more bystanders. During rescue efforts at the school, searchers discovered an additional 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol connected to a timing device set for the same time as the first explosions; the material was hidden throughout the basement of the south wing. Kehoe had apparently intended to blow up and destroy the entire school.