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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (598102)	1/14/2011 10:31:25 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574103

If you know some basic chemistry (or can find it on the internet) you can make explosives. It doesn't have to be military grade stuff to be expensive. The kids who perpetrated the Columbine massacre made pipe bombs. You don't have to be a genius or have special connections to blow something up, you just have to be willing to accept the strong risk of getting caught. Failing that you can get all sorts of fuel/incendiaries, there is gasoline sold all over the place, it burns pretty well (and if firmly contained as its burned it becomes and explosive as well). But the main point is not "they could use bombs". The main points of my post where 1 - Making guns illegal doesn't prevent criminals or obsessive crazies from getting guns. It might prevent some possible murders. If you don't have any delay or restriction on buying guns, someone who flips out near a gun store might buy a gun and then kill people (assuming they sell a gun and ammo to someone who's flipped out), but at the same time any delay or restriction can also cause deaths (someone who's threatened, perhaps by a stalker, that can't get armed to protect themselves, someone who can't carry because of carry restrictions, and so is unarmed when during a mass murder/spree killing situation.) 2 - Spree killings are one of the best arguments against gun control, since they are the situations where an armed bystander or potential victim is most likely to be able to reduce the death toll. They typically go on for minutes, tens of minutes, or even hours in some cases. Its not "over so quick that no one could have responded". They most often happen where guns are restricted. I guess even the crazies like easier targets.