Dave wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:06:10 -0700, Doug Winterburn
wrote:

The problem with guns is that you can't outrun a bullet and it's
pretty hard to fight off someone if they're aiming a gun at you. With
someone holding a knife, you might be able to stay out of their reach
or at the very least, have a much better chance of fighting them off.

I knife will never be used for mass killings like a gun. Take away the
gun and the guy then uses a pipe bomb.

Fertilizer and diesel fuel is much more effective - as witnessed in
Oklahoma City. Mass murderers find the most effective means for their
ugly twisted deeds. Unfortunately, they are very adaptable.

Come on. You're really going to compare home made bombs to gun
shootings? Pipe bombs, fertilizer bombs might be effective, but still
they're still another animal and not really in the same ball park. The
terror of someone walking along shooting people isn't matched by your
home made bombs.

Take away guns and you will find out. And for that matter several days
ago a college student went walking through a school campus in Cyprus TX and
stabbed a dozen or more people. Since he was 6 he fantasized about what it
would be like to stab some one with a knife.

It's easier to obtain guns (and use them) than your home made bombs,
otherwise you'd be hearing of many more domestic bombings in the news.

Actually guns are much harder to obtain. Home Depo has every thing you
need to make a pipe bomb and much cheaper than buying a gun.

The real problem are the people that want to kill other people. IMHO this
has become more of a problem when we decided to blame others for why Johnny
is a murderer. Compared to 50 years ago the consequences of behavior that
leads up to tragic results are now a slap on the hand and or sensitivity
training for the normal people.
Simply put you don't fix the problem by taking away the rights of every one
to keep the menace from killing people, you treat the menace in a manor to
actually discourage such behavior with out regard to whose "feelings" are
going to be hurt.. And the parents are as much to blame as anyone.



In the end, the knowledge needed to obtain and shoot a firearm is much
less than that needed for bomb making.

Perhaps an atomic bomb but not a Molotov Cocktail.