Thursday, December 27, 2012

Mass Murder: An American Tradition?

I have to mention something in reference to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The incident, horrible as it was, wasn't the worst massacre at an American school. That would be the massacre at Bath Township, Michigan, which took place on May 18, 1927. The Bath Consolidated school was partly blown up killing 38 children and 6 adults and injured 58 people. The perpretrator was Andrew Kehoe, the disgruntled Treasurer of the School Board. Kehoe had previously killed his wife and blown up several buildings on his farm. After blowing up the school, Kehoe then blew up his own truck killing himself in the process.

I can't help think how many of these mass killers are apparently "normal" people who just "snap." Is there something wrong with america that we are producing so many people like that?

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