Oh I agree, and don't :) A car on average will only kill 1-4 people at a blow. Some record numbers involve killing up to ten people on a crowded sidewalk, but these are rare.
Explosives sound cool, but the Columbine kids tried to make them and failed. They wanted to be anything but "another school shooting," they wanted to do the unfulfilled promise in Heathers. They had equipment, and time to practice, but were unable to get the explosives to work as planned. They wanted a body count in the hundreds. It seems explosives, while very possible, are harder to implement than it might appear. On the other hand, Iraq is showing the power of amateur efforts in that arena.
I'm mixed on gun control myself, but it still seems to me that this one person was able to take that many lives reliably because of guns. I don't think we can really ban them effectively though. If we make them illegal, they'll just come in across the border - though perhaps in smaller numbers.
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Date: 2007-04-19 01:54 pm (UTC)A car on average will only kill 1-4 people at a blow. Some record numbers involve killing up to ten people on a crowded sidewalk, but these are rare.
Explosives sound cool, but the Columbine kids tried to make them and failed. They wanted to be anything but "another school shooting," they wanted to do the unfulfilled promise in Heathers. They had equipment, and time to practice, but were unable to get the explosives to work as planned. They wanted a body count in the hundreds. It seems explosives, while very possible, are harder to implement than it might appear. On the other hand, Iraq is showing the power of amateur efforts in that arena.
I'm mixed on gun control myself, but it still seems to me that this one person was able to take that many lives reliably because of guns. I don't think we can really ban them effectively though. If we make them illegal, they'll just come in across the border - though perhaps in smaller numbers.