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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (10963)4/11/2001 5:36:06 PM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I went looking for instructions on making home made bombs. Within five minutes I found several recipies that I think any high school student could follow easily enough.

I'm a chemistry graduate (well, partly). Explosive substances are easy to make, true. Basic volatile inflammatories, even easier.
Transporting them to another destination undetected, and getting them to explode on signal - without killing yourself first - is a rather different matter.

I'm not about to test them to see whether they really work. But assuming they do,
Well, quite. See above. I'd personally rather potential killers died at their own hands than killed others... and home-made explosives are an easy way of doing such.
And you can't really 'snap' and suddenly make a bomb - if you try doing something like that in a blind rage, well, IMO see above...
making a bomb is probably even easier than getting a gun unless your parents have one unlocked lying around the house.
So, where are all these students - anywhere in the world - who've made their own bombs, taken them to school and killed their peers with them? I'll argue from the 100% lack of such... or has every school killer in the US had careless, gun-owning parents? or do disaffected teenagers just like committing mass murder the hard way?
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