Worst US School Violence Ever--1927

I'm baffled. I've been a news junkie with an interest in history for most of my adult life, and I was born in Michigan. How is it that I never heard of the worst school violence ever in the US until a few days ago? Bath, Michigan; May 18, 1927. Most of the 45 killed and 58 injured were young children. Maybe...no, it couldn't be! But, maybe if the Butcher of Bath had used a gun instead of dynamite to visit his evil upon that school, the incident might be common knowledge today.

So the three worst mass murders in US history--at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the hijacking of planes during 9/11, and the murder of the kids and teachers at the Bath school--all were perpetrated without guns. And privately owned guns are used to prevent more than a million crimes every year. (Just the other day, an elderly lady shot out the tires of a would-be thief's getaway car, and the only reason the media found that newsworthy was that Granny was a former Miss America) V-Tech's Psy-Cho killed people but gave life to the gun-grabbers' cause. So when the politicians pontificate about how you can't be trusted with the right to bear arms, remember: If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.