"It Twas Ever Thus" - school shootings, etc...

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"It Twas Ever Thus" by Will Brink

School shootings - and massacres in general - are all the rage these days with nut jobs and the media, who fuel each other to ever greater heights it appears (don’t think for a second the two are not interrelated as the massive media attention propels these people due to the nature of their psychosis.) what was worst violence ever of this nature? VT Tech maybe?

45 people, mostly children, were killed and 58 were injured when disgruntled and demented school board member Andrew Kehoe dynamited the new school building in Bath, Michigan out of revenge over his foreclosed farm due in part to the taxes required to pay for the new school. When was that? May 18, 1927. No guns involved:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial7/bath/index.htm

But wait, things are worse than usual right? I mean, school violence is at epidemic levels these days right? Bullets flying everywhere right! The media is covering that right? Err, no: What the media does not tell you, is the fact school violence is down and has been going down for some time:

http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.edu/violence-in-schools/collegecampus.html


These shootings make for great media ratings and to brain wash into focusing on the evils of guns, but dropping crime rates don't make for ratings or hysterics...It may be all the rage right now for some disenfranchised youth (or what ever you want to call them) to walk into a school, you know, one of those “gun free zones” and kill as many as possible, but trends in violence have always existed, and always will, so keep it in context people.

But wait, this type of stuff didn’t happen when we were kids right? Human being have a very short memories and we tend to look at our time as a youth as “the good old days” when times were easy and all that, but that simply is not the case. Some things are worse, some things are better, but these types of violent acts have been going on a long time. A list follows.

Guess what, we are still here, things are, for better or worse the way they always were, or should say, the more they change the more they stay the same. Or as Mr. Natural would say “It Twas Ever Thus”

Don’t let the media convince you otherwise. Pass this around perhaps so that others can get some perspective over what they see every day via the ratings hungry media….


University of Texas at Austin massacre Austin, Texas, United States August 1, 1966

Orangeburg Massacre Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States February 8, 1968

Kent State shootings Kent, Ohio, United States May 4, 1970
Jackson State killings Jackson, Mississippi, United States May 14-15, 1970

California State University, Fullerton Library Massacre Fullerton, California, United States July 12, 1976

Cleveland Elementary School shooting San Diego, California, United States January 29, 1979

Parkway South Junior High School shooting Saint Louis, Missouri, United States January 20, 1983

Stockton massacre Stockton, California, United States January 17, 1989

University of Iowa shooting Iowa City, Iowa, United States November 1, 1991

Simon's Rock College of Bard shooting Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States December 14, 1992

Lindhurst High School shooting Marysville, California, United States May 1, 1992

East Carter High School shooting Grayson, Kentucky, United States January 18, 1993

Richland High School shooting Lynnville, Tennessee, United States November 15, 1995

Frontier Junior High shooting Moses Lake, Washington, United States February 2, 1996

Bethel High School shooting Bethel, Alaska, United States February 19, 1997

Pearl High School shooting Pearl, Mississippi, United States October 1, 1997

Heath High School shooting West Paducah, Kentucky United States December 1, 1997

Jonesboro massacre Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States March 24, 1998

Parker Middle School Shooting Edinboro, Pennsylvania April 24, 1998

Thurston High School shooting Springfield, Oregon, United States May 21, 1998

Columbine High School massacre Littleton, Colorado, United States April 20, 1999

Heritage High School shooting Conyers, Georgia, United States May 20, 1999

Buell Elementary School shooting Mount Morris Township, Michigan, United States February 29, 2000

Santana High School shooting Santee, California, United States March 5, 2001

Granite Hills High School shooting El Cajon, California March 22, 2001

Appalachian School of Law shooting Grundy, Virginia, United States January 16, 2002

John McDonogh High School Shooting New Orleans, LA, United States April 14, 2003

Red Lion Area Junior High School shootings Red Lion, Pennsylvania, United States April 24, 2003

Case Western Reserve University shooting Cleveland, Ohio, United States May 9, 2003

Rocori High School shootings Cold Spring, Minnesota, United States September 24, 2003

Red Lake High School massacre Red Lake, Minnesota, United States March 21, 2005

Campbell County High School shooting Jacksboro, Tennessee November 8, 2005

Pine Middle School shooting Reno, Nevada, United States March 14, 2006

Essex Elementary School Shooting Essex, Vermont, United States August 24, 2006

Platte Canyon High School shooting Bailey, Colorado, United States September 27, 2006

Weston High School shooting Cazenovia, Wisconsin September 29, 2006

Amish school shooting Nickel Mines, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States October 2, 2006

Virginia Tech massacre Blacksburg, Virginia, United States April 16, 2007

Delaware State University shooting Dover, Delaware, United States September 21, 2007

SuccessTech Academy shooting Cleveland, Ohio, United States October 10, 2007

Notre Dame Elementary shooting Portsmouth, Ohio, United States February 7, 2008

Louisiana Technical College shooting Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States February 8, 2008

Mitchell High School shooting Memphis, Tennessee, United States February 11, 2008

E.O. Green Junior High School shooting Oxnard, California, United States February 12, 2008

Northern Illinois University shooting DeKalb, Illinois, United States February 14, 2008
 
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