The article was really just a Wiki post so I doubt it was meant to do anything other than state the known facts. I can't speak for the OP as to the motive for submitting it to HN... so nothing is obvious to me in that regard. But my comment was attempting to explain its appropriateness as a counter to you thinking it inappropriate . That was all. And my point was made in my post with regard to it being a counter-point to the a current point being made that without guns, the 20 kids would be alive. This event simply serves as an example of other (non gun) ways that bad people have committed mass killings of kids at a school. It would have served as an example even if the numbers were the same or lower. The fact that it happens to be the highest body count was not significant to me. I agree that we don't need to keep resetting the bar for the next psycho to best.
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The article was really just a Wiki post so I doubt it was meant to do anything other than state the known facts. I can't speak for the OP as to the motive for submitting it to HN... so nothing is obvious to me in that regard. But my comment was attempting to explain its appropriateness as a counter to you thinking it inappropriate . That was all. And my point was made in my post with regard to it being a counter-point to the a current point being made that without guns, the 20 kids would be alive. This event simply serves as an example of other (non gun) ways that bad people have committed mass killings of kids at a school. It would have served as an example even if the numbers were the same or lower. The fact that it happens to be the highest body count was not significant to me. I agree that we don't need to keep resetting the bar for the next psycho to best.