Yesterday it was said too many times in all kinds of ways...

"the worst shooting in US history..."

But this is not the case.  With saddened respect to all those who are mourning at this time about the Virginia shootings, it may also be a teachable moment for the US about her own history.  For it is an insult to the native people of this hemisphere to overlook their collective slaughter with mass shootings by the US cavalry ending barely 100 years ago.  We had to listen to Bush say how 9/11 was the worst bloodshed of US people in her history since the Civil War.  Which is an outrageous lie, a truncation of history.  And the US’ collective incapacity to understand her own history is then her collective blindness towards her current and future circumstance.

As to seldom learned US history, consider the massacre of Wounded Knee.