Quote:On May 18th, 1927, the last day of classes at the only school in the small town of Bath, Michigan was interrupted by a deadly explosion. Hundreds of pounds of carefully planted dynamite tore apart the north wing of the school's main building, killing dozens of students and two teachers. Ten children aged eight or younger were among those who died in the initial blast:

“There was a pile of children about five or six under the roof and some of them had arms sticking out, some had legs, and some just their heads sticking out. They were unrecognizable because they were covered with dust, plaster and blood,” wrote local author Monty J. Ellsworth in his 1927 account, The Bath School Disaster. “It is a miracle that many parents didn’t lose their minds before the task of getting their children out of the ruins was completed."

As community members rushed to help pull survivors out from under the rubble of collapsed portions of the building, the perpetrator of the crime, local school board member Andrew Kehoe, arrived at the scene of the bombing in his truck, which was packed with more explosives and shrapnel. According to eyewitness testimony, school superintendent Emory Huyck then approached and confronted Kehoe. After struggling to pull a Winchester bolt-action rifle from the bomber's hands, the gun either went off or was deliberately fired, detonating the explosives in Kehoe's car. This second blast killed Huyck, Kehoe, and several bystanders, finally brining the day’s carnage to an end. Authorities later discovered that earlier in the day, Kehoe had killed his wife and burned down their farmhouse in preparation for the attack.

Ultimately, 44 people at the school were killed and dozens more sustained serious injuries.

Bombings like the Bath School massacre are not a historical anomaly. In the many decades that have passed since that incident, explosive attacks have killed thousands more people across the world. Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City alone killed 168 people and wounded over 500. More recently, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings killed three while injuring 264. Even deadlier bombings are an all-too-common occurrence in countries like Iraq. In July 2016, an ISIS truck bomb killed 324 people in a crowded shopping district in Baghdad. In follow-up attacks, terrorists killed 209 more people in suicide bombings, IED attacks, and mortar-assisted ambushes.

Federal law enforcement experts have been warning Americans for years that mass killings of this sort are still a threat. In 2007, the Associated Press reported the findings of an FBI homemade explosives expert who explained how easy it is for murderers to make bombs capable of causing death on a massive scale [emphasis mine]:

Kirk Yeager makes bombs from the stuff found under kitchen sinks. He does it to help the FBI defend against what officials say is the next frontier for terrorists in the United States.

Ten years ago, peroxide-based bombs were mostly the work of young pranksters. But the easy-to-make yet deadly chemical cocktails were embraced in the late 1990s by Palestinian militants and suicide bombers bent on killing large groups of people.

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"Every serious terrorist group knows about them and knows how to make them," Yeager said. The forensic scientist heads the explosives unit at the FBI's laboratory in Quantico, Va., about 35 miles south of Washington.

"Bad guys are bombers. You don't have to have the level of sophistication to make a bomb that you need to get nuclear materials," Yeager said.

The bombs are made by mixing chemicals that are used in common household items, including hydrogen peroxide and paint thinner, and easily found at drug stores or hardware stores. Experts know them as TATP, short for triacetone triperoxide, and HMTD, or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine.

No government can provide perfect safety to all of its citizens. The reality of modern life is that killers have an immense arsenal of possible tools at their disposal to wreak havoc. Focusing inordinately on the method of mass murder in any given case does nothing to advance our understanding of why these types of events happen. Regardless of the legal barriers that are placed in front of them, people like Andrew Kehoe, Timothy McVeigh, and Islamic terrorists will always find a way to transform their dark fantasies into reality unless we can identify and stop them before they kill.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chrisreeve...sletterad=

Interesting article. It is a scary norm in modern life.

People that live in the real world know the cold hard truth of what the OP posted. Race baiting, thumb sucking, save the planet, soy sipping, sky screamers will never understand this until they voluntarily burn the constitution and bend the knee to a dictator. Then it will be too late.

Just heard last year Trump signed legislation making it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns.

(02-15-2018 07:36 PM)Old Dominion Wrote:  Just heard last year Trump signed legislation making it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns.

He banned trannies from the military so that would suggest the opposite.

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(02-15-2018 07:36 PM)Old Dominion Wrote:  Just heard last year Trump signed legislation making it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns.

Not really, it's no more easy today for them to buy guns than it was when Obama took office.

He did, however, sign legislation repealing an Obama era regulation that denied American citizens due process prior to denying them rights defined in the Bill of Rights. Said regulation was living on borrowed time anyhow because as soon as it was enforced on someone who it did not apply to it was going to be struck down by the courts. Try as you anti-constitutional leftists might the 5th Amendment is still the law of the land in this country.

http://abc13.com/news/looking-back-deadl...y/1511352/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe_Elemen...ol_bombing

1959 school bombing in Houston killed 6 and injured 18. Thanks to some teachers and a janitor, the casualties were smaller than otherwise. Bomber was trying to detonate on the playground surrounded by children.

Kolter Elementary was named after a teacher killed in the explosion. Montgomery Elementary was named after the Black janitor. They recently renamed Dowling Middle School which is fed by Montgomery Elementary and was opened at the same time, because Dick Dowling served in the Confederacy and they claimed the name was a sign of white supremacy, despite the fact that the same kids, in what was then a majority white area, went to a school named after a Black hero.

One of the deadliest at the time, now #9, a shooter opened fire from the top of the tower at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966, killing 13 and wounding 31. If it was a month later with twice as many students on campus, it might have been much worse.

That attack went on for 90 minutes before police were able to get to him and shoot and kill him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University...r_shooting

No amount of weapons regulations or bans will stop a dedicated and demented individual from carrying out their mission. These people are diabolically evil and mentally deranged. Laws mean ZERO to them. Whatever you choose to regulate and ban? They just will find another way to carry out their mission. Our goal can ONLY be to identify as much as possible people with that dedication and stop them BEFORE they have a chance to do it. THIS must be our focus. Anything else is simply a fcking waste of time, energy and funds.

This discussion brought up a memory of a Star Trek dialogue: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708467/quotes

Mr. Spock: Call it a deep understanding of the way things happen to Vulcans, but I know that not a person, not even the computers on board the Intrepid, knew what was killing them or would have understood it had they known.
Dr. McCoy: But, 400 Vulcans?
Mr. Spock: I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.
Dr. McCoy: Suffer the death of thy neighbour, eh, Spock? Now, you wouldn't wish that on us, would you?
Mr. Spock: It might have rendered your history a bit less bloody.

(02-15-2018 07:36 PM)Old Dominion Wrote:  Just heard last year Trump signed legislation making it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns.

You heard wrong.

(02-15-2018 08:51 PM)bullet Wrote:  This discussion brought up a memory of a Star Trek dialogue: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708467/quotes

Mr. Spock: Call it a deep understanding of the way things happen to Vulcans, but I know that not a person, not even the computers on board the Intrepid, knew what was killing them or would have understood it had they known.
Dr. McCoy: But, 400 Vulcans?
Mr. Spock: I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.
Dr. McCoy: Suffer the death of thy neighbour, eh, Spock? Now, you wouldn't wish that on us, would you?
Mr. Spock: It might have rendered your history a bit less bloody.

One of my of favourite exchanges between Spock and Dr McCoy. Its also a play on the Star Trek 2 & 3 mantra about the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few.

Its also essentially what Caiaphas said about Christ before handing him over to Pilate.

Ciaiphas said, "is it not better this one man die to save a nation?"

He had no idea of the gravity of what he was saying or doing, or that he was sealing the Jews fate for generations.

And lately they've all been done via guns, except for a terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. It's so much easier and less dangerous for the perpetrator.