[ Long ] Bath, Michigan Bomber Kills 45, Then Self.

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According to the Wikipedia Article:

I'm posting this to point out two important details:

1. The perpetrator's weapons were Dynamite and Pyrotol. He used his rifle ONLY to detonate explosives in his truck. The explosives he had placed in the school were detonated with timers.

2. This event happened 85 years ago! Thus, attacks on schoolchildren by deranged people is not a recent phenomenon. Also, there have been other attacks on schools since then that did not involve firearms.

September 15, 1959; Houston, Texas, United States; 6 dead, 19 injured. Poe Elementary School attack. The morning that Paul Orgeron's second-grade son is denied enrollment, he detonates an explosive on the school playground during recess, killing himself; his son, Dusty; a teacher; a custodian and two seven-year-old boys. The school principal and 18 students aged six to ten are injured, many seriously.

June 11, 1964; Cologne, Germany; 11 dead, 22 injured. Cologne school massacre. Armed with an insecticide sprayer converted into a flamethrower, a lance, and a homemade mace, 42-year-old Walter Seifert entered the Katholische Volksschule in Cologne, Germany, and opened fire on female students playing in the courtyard. He then knocked in classroom windows with his mace and fired inside. Eight children and two teachers died, and twenty children and two teachers suffered injuries of severe burns. After swallowing poisonous insecticide E605, Seifert died the following day, while in custody.

April 8, 1970; Bahr el-Baqar, Sharqiyya, Egypt; 46 dead, 50+ injured. Bahr el-Baqar massacre. A bombing occurred during the War of Attrition, where the Israeli airforce carried out a raid on the Egyptian village of Bahr el-Baqar, in the eastern province of Sharqiyya, the raid resulted in the destruction of a primary school full of school children. Of the 130 school children who attended the school, 46 were killed, and over 50 wounded. The Israelis claimed that they believed the target was a military installation.

October 10, 1977; San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago; 5 dead. A man running through the halls of El Socorro public school killed four children with a machete, as well as a woman outside the school when trying to escape. He was later arrested by police.

June 3, 1982; Shamshuipo, Hong Kong; 5 dead, 43 injured. After stabbing his mother and sister to death and injuring two bystanders, 28-year-old Li Chihang entered Anne Anne Kindergarten and started stabbing people. Three children died and 40 other people were injured in the attack. Li was arrested after being shot by a police officer.

August 13, 1983; Chiang Rai Province, Thailand; 3 dead, 3 injured. 3 children were hacked to death and two others wounded in a nursery in Chiang Rai Province, when 43-year-old Suthat Wannasarn attacked them with a sword and a large stick. Wannasarn was later arrested by police after being shot in the abdomen.

January 10, 1994; Maradi, Niger; 5 dead, 1 injured. A former psychiatric patient, armed with a club, beat four children to death in a quran school in Maradi, and also killed a woman who wanted to stop him. When trying to escape, the man was captured and severely beaten by an angry crowd.

July 8, 1996; Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom; 7 injured. Wolverhampton machete attack. Horrett Campbell, a 33-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, invaded a Teddy Bears' Picnic being held at St Luke's Primary School and slashed three young children and four adults with a machete. Lisa Potts, a 20-year-old nursery nurse, was awarded the George Medal for saving children's lives despite suffering severe injuries.

August 1998; Henan, China; 2 dead, 15 injured. A teacher stabbed two children to death and wounded 15 others.

September 3, 1998; Hajdúhadház, Hungary; 11 injured. A 31-year-old female teacher stabbed eight children and three teachers in the canteen of a primary school in Hajdúhadház.

September 14, 1998; Hejiang County, China; 23 injured. Lin Peiqing stabbed 23 elementary school children during a morning flag-raising ceremony.

February 22, 1999; Gulbene, Latvia; 4 dead, 1 injured. 19-year-old Alexander Koryakov entered a kindergarten in Gulbene where he chopped three girls to death with a meat cleaver. He also killed a teacher and wounded a nurse, before trying to escape. After his arrest he told police that he wanted to become as famous as Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. Koryakov was sentenced to life imprisonment in December 1999.

May 3, 1999; Costa Mesa, California, United States; 2 dead, 5 injured. Steven Allen Abrams purposefully drove his car onto the playground of Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center. He killed two children and injured four other children and an adult. Abrams later stated that he thought the deaths of the children would silence the voices that he thought the US government was beaming into his brain.

September 5, 2000; Bidwell, Ohio, United States; 2 dead. Frank Shoemaker shot and killed his estranged wife, 52-year-old Linda Shoemaker, in the parking lot of Bidwell Porter Elementary School where she worked as a cook. Frank Shoemaker then returned home and committed suicide.

February 2, 2001; Red Lion, Pennsylvania, United States; 13 injured. William Stankewicz entered North Hopewell Winterstown Elementary School and brutally slashed two teachers and a principal with a machete. He then subsequently wounded several children in a kindergarten classroom before being subdued by a faculty member.

May 7, 2001; Anchorage, Alaska, United States; 4 injured. Four students were stabbed in the neck by 33-year-old Jason Pritchard at Mountain View Elementary School.

June 8, 2001; Ikeda, Osaka, Japan; 8 dead, 15 injured. Osaka school massacre. Armed with a kitchen knife, a 37-year-old former janitor Mamoru Takuma trespassed into Ikeda Elementary School attached to Osaka-Kyoiku University and stabbed school children and teachers. 8 children were killed and 15 wounded, among those were 13 children and two teachers.

September 4, 2002; Seoul, South Korea; 10 injured. 10 children were injured at Neung Dong Church Elementary School in Seoul, when Hwang Bom-nae attacked them with kitchen knives. Hwang told police he heard the voice of Kim Il-Sung that commanded him to kill many people or he himself would be killed.

November 26, 2002; Huaiji county, China; 5 dead, 2 injured. Shi Ruoqiu stabbed seven children at Shilong Elementary School with a kitchen knife before being arrested. One child died at the scene, while four more succumbed to their wounds in hospital.

March 7, 2003; Beihai, China; 8 injured. 24-year-old Xie Zhongcai stabbed four teachers and four children in a kindergarten in Beihai, after one of the teachers, with whom he had been in love, had arranged for him to be beaten up. Xie was finally overpowered by staff members and the father of one of the kindergarten children.

June 1, 2004; Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan; 1 dead. Sasebo slashing. An 11-year-old student, identified only as "Girl A", killed a 12-year-old classmate, Satomi Mitarai, by slitting her throat at Okubo Elementary School.

September 11, 2004; Suzhou, China; 28 injured. A man armed with a knife and homemade explosives attacked 28 children at a kindergarten.

September 20, 2004; Ying County, China; 25 injured. 36-year-old Jia Qingyou, a bus driver, injured 25 children with a kitchen knife at No. 1 Experimental Primary School in Ying county. He was later sentenced to death and executed.

September 30, 2004; Chenzhou, China; 4 dead, 12 injured. Liu Hongwen, a 28-year-old primary school teacher, killed four children with a knife in a grade one class at a school in Chenzhou and wounded nine other children and three teachers, before taking 65 students hostage. After negotiations with a county government official he surrendered to police. He was later found not guilty by reason of insanity due to schizophrenia.

December 4, 2004; Mingcheng Town, China; 12 injured. 12 students were stabbed by Liu Zhigang, a man suffering from schozophrenia, at the Central Primary School of Mingcheng Town, Panshi City. Liu was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

February 14, 2005; Neyagawa, Japan; 1 dead, 2 injured. A 17-year-old boy stabbed two teachers and a school nutritionist with a kitchen knife at his former elementary school, killing one of the teachers.

December 10, 2005; Uji, Japan; 1 dead. 23-year-old teacher Yu Hagino stabbed 12-year-old Sayano Horimoto to death at a cram school in Uji, following a verbal dispute. Yu was sentenced to 18 years in prison in March 2007.

May 8, 2006; Shiguan, China; 12 dead, 5 injured. Shiguan kindergarten attack. Armed with two knives and petrol 19-year-old Bai Ningyang entered a classroom on the second floor of a kindergarten in Shiguan, a village near Gongyi. He forced the 21 children and the teacher to the back of the room, sprayed the floor with gasoline, and, before setting it on fire, let one child go, because he knew their parents. Bai then locked the door and escaped. 12 of the children died and four others and the teacher were wounded. Bai was arrested the next day and sentenced to death in December 2007.

May 24, 2006; Luoying, China; 2 dead, 2 injured. 35-year-old farmer Yang Xinlong hacked his aunt to death, set her house on fire and injured another person after an argument before entering Luoying Primary School where he stabbed a child to death in a third grade classroom and took 18 others hostage for several hours. When Yang refused to let the children go he was shot and arrested by police.

June 13, 2007; Chiling, China; 1 dead, 3 injured. A nine-year-old boy was killed when Su Qianxiao, a 42-year-old villager from Chiling, stabbed four children with a kitchen knife at Chiling Primary School. He was caught by locals before he could commit suicide by jumping off the school's roof.

September 13, 2007; Hengyang, China; 1 dead, 5 injured. 28-year-old Kuang Xi, an allegedly mentally disturbed man, hurled five girls and one boy out of a window on the third floor of Hongqiao Primary School, killing a nine-year-old girl. He was subdued by four men, before he could throw out a seventh child.

November 12, 2008; Kandahar, Afghanistan; 15 injured. Militants in Afghanistan attacked three separate groups of students and teachers by squirting acid on them while they were walking to the Mirwais Mena Girls' School in Kandahar. Fifteen people were injured in the acid attack. Ten people were later arrested in connection to the attack, several of which confessed.

January 23, 2009; Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, Dendermonde, Belgium; 4 dead, 12 injured. Kim De Gelder entered a kindergarten in Belgium and started stabbing people. Two babies and a 54-year-old woman were stabbed to death and twelve other people were injured in the attack. De Gelder also stabbed a 73-year-old woman to death in her apartment days earlier.

March 3, 2009; Mazhan, China; 2 dead, 4 injured. 40-year-old Xu Ximei, an allegedly mentally disabled woman, stabbed two boys, aged 4 and 6, to death with a kitchen knife and injured another three children, as well as the 76-year-old grandmother of one of her victims at the primary school of Mazhan village in Guangdong province. She was later found lying in a classroom and arrested.

March 23, 2010; Nanping, China; 8 dead, 5 injured. Nanping school stabbings. Eight children were hacked to death with a machete and five others were injured outside an elementary school in Nanping. The assailant, identified as 41-year-old Zheng Minsheng, was restrained by school security guards and then arrested by police.

April 13, 2010; Xichang, China; 2 dead, 5 injured. An assailant armed with a meat cleaver attacked students and bystanders outside an elementary school, killing a schoolboy and an elderly woman and wounding three other children and two adults before being arrested by police. The assailant, identified as 40-year-old Yang Jiaqin, was reported to be mentally ill.

April 28, 2010; Leizhou, China; 17 injured. Chen Kangbing stabbed and injured 16 students and one teacher at Leicheng First Primary School in Leizhou before being restrained by teachers and arrested by police.

April 29, 2010; Taixing, China; 32 injured. Xu Yuyuan stabbed 29 children, two teachers and a security guard at the Zhongxin Kindergarten in Taixing. It was reported that five of the injured children were in critical condition.

April 30, 2010; Weifang, China; 1 dead, 6 injured. Wang Yonglai, a 45-year-old farmer, used a motorcycle to break through a gate at Shangzhuang Primary School in Weifang and then assaulted several children with a hammer, wounding five of them. A teacher also injured her foot, while trying to stop Wang, who ended his attack by grabbing two children and pouring gasoline over himself. Teachers managed to pull the children to safety, before Wang committed suicide by setting himself on fire.

May 12, 2010; Hanzhong, China; 10 dead, 11 injured. An assailant killed seven children and two adults and wounded 11 other children at the Shengshui Temple Kindergarten in Hanzhong when he attacked them with a cleaver. The assailant, identified as 48-year-old Wu Huanming, fled from the school and committed suicide when he returned to his house.

August 3, 2010; Zibo, China; 3 dead, 7 injured. A knife-wielding man attacked children and staff at a kindergarten in Zibo. Three children were killed and three other children and four teachers were injured in the attack. It was reported that two of the injured teachers were in critical condition. The assailant, identified as 26-year-old Fang Jiantang, was arrested by police after the attack.

October 22, 2010; Zamboanga City, Philippines; 4 dead, 6 injured. A 12-year-old girl, a teacher, and a 64-year-old man were stabbed to death by ex-convict Felin Mateo at Talisayan Elementary School in Talisayan village. He also wounded four other children and two teachers, some of them seriously, before he could be subdued by irate villagers, who then killed him with his own knife.

August 29, 2011; Shanghai, China; 8 injured. A 30-year-old woman slashed eight children with a box cutter at a child-care centre in Shanghai, leaving one of the wounded in serious condition. The attacker, a day care worker at the kindergarten, who was said to have suffered from psychiatric problems, was arrested.

November 15, 2011; Ga-Mmasehlong, South Africa; 1 dead. Gilford Shapo, teacher at Mmasehlong Primary School in Ga-Mmasehlong village, was hacked to death with a machete in front of his class by his brother Happy. The attacker was arrested by police.

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After every mass shooting, people demand greater control and restrictions on firearms. So, the question is, Why has there been no public outcry to ban cleavers, cars, trucks, machetes, clubs, knives, box cutters, and acid, as well?

I'll just say,

Guns don't kill people; guns make it easier for people to kill people.

...and leave it at that.

no one needs an assault rifle. i'm tired of being known as a citizen of the country with the most gun violence. people who own a gun are more likely to die by gun than people who don't own a gun. guns aren't protection, they're a liability. adam lanza's mother owned guns. look what it got her.

Um...

I know that's a long list, but I really don't think archiving every school shooting is needed...

Well, at least it's a good list xD

Yeah, and the following restrictions on explosive material seemed to work so well, especially with Timothy.

Yeah again, nothing is really new, and things have been done before and they'll be done again.

It's impossible to stop; whether restricting items or making them more abundant. Neither will have any lasting effect.

Probably because firearms make it easier to commit murder than most other means. A firearm can kill at a distance and from a position of stealth. Also they are pretty accurate (or could be). Much more so than bombs or thrown explosives. All the other weapons have to be used at close contact which means the perpetrator can be more easily stopped or prevented.

The very characteristics that make firearms handy dandy murder weapons also make them good for self defense.

ruveyn

אָמֵן

("So be it, truly")

All that work...in vain.
Give America three months. It'll happen again.
I'm calling America's bluff here...they don't have the stones to ban guns.

If you live in America, think about this:
No ban and next time, it could be your friends, your family or even you that bites the bullets. And the world will watch and



Time to decide America. Time to choose.

You missed:

March 1996 - Dunblane, Scotland. Thomas Hamilton enters primary school with several handguns. He shot and killed 16 children (aged 5 & 6) and their class teacher. Then he killed himself.

If you are going to list all these horrific incidents do not forget one so important and similar to that which has so recently been carried out. The horrific events in Dunblane, and the strength of that community in driving the changes forward, led to changes in gun laws in the UK. Changes for the better if you ask me.

In the UK it was rare for anyone to have a gun anyway, and there were already tight controls in place over their possession, so the changes to the laws were a straightforward matter.
It would be a very different case in the US, where there are 90 guns for every 100 people.

I purposely left out all of the firearms-related shootings specifically to point out that people do not need firearms to massacre children, so as to alleviate some of the rampant hysteria being instigated by fear-mongering idiots.

If firearms are outlawed, axes, chainsaws, cleavers, clubs, explosives, firebombs, fists, knives, machetes, swords, and vehicles will still be available.

It is not the firearms that present as dangerous, but the mentally imbalanced people who use axes, chainsaws, cleavers, clubs, explosives, firearms, firebombs, fists, knives, machetes, swords, and vehicles to massacre innocent children that present as hidden threats to public safety.

Of course you don't need firearms to massacre children - the people who do this kind of thing will use whatever they have to hand. But by purposefully leaving out all of the firearms related incidents you are skewing the data to prove a point because you are clearly pro-firearm.

How many such deaths have been due to fire arms vs all the other methods listed? If there's a significant difference, then there that is an argument for gun laws to change. If there's not ...

As for it being easy to change gun laws in the UK vs the US ... well that maybe so, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be tried.

Exactly. We have a different mentality to firearms and as a result we do not have mass murders every month or so.

Mass murders are so common in the US - since 1982 (That's only 30 years) there have been SIXTY TWO mass murders, while this list can only produce about 40 incidents over 53yrs, the maths show the US gun culture has produced more deaths in less time.

*sighs*

Guess I gotta post it again...

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/0 ... ore-148776

Again, it sounds cold, but on a per year basis mass shootings are a rounding error, not a crisis.

As for the people who say "but guns make it so much easier to kill a lot of people", I have two words for you; Molotov cocktail. Cheap, available anywhere in the world, can be constructed by a middle school student and capable of killing loads of people just as quickly, and much more painfully, than even the highest capacity personal firearm.

I was watching the news briefly this evening (unusual for me, the program I had been watching had just ended and I hadn't got to changing the channel yet) and there was a small debate about whether some form of gun control would be possible in the U.S. There was a british man (who said no, it wouldn't be possible because people didn't want it) and an american woman who stated that since Friday there had been 900 shootings across the US, resulting in 300 fatalities and believed that there must be ways to reduce this.

That seemed like rather a lot to me. I can't attest to the truthfulness of those figures. But they shocked me and if it's true.... that's horrific.

If you believe that your right to own firearms with minimal restrictions outweighs the risks that go with it, that's one thing. I may not entirely agree, but it's your view and many others share it (especially in the US, where gun ownership is considered a right, unlike many other countries). Same goes for pointing out that the risks from access to firearms are much smaller than the risks from many other sources. But to deny that easy access to firearms makes it easier for people to kill each other doesn't make a lot of sense.

I'll resist the urge to argue the effectiveness of molotov cocktails, but I suspect they're less effective than you imagine.