[lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre

[Carl Remick]

>From: Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org>
>
>The ranting anti-gun zealots will ignore one of the obvious
>counter-arguments to their call for more gun control. The VT killer
>could have easily killed those students or more with other weapons. He
>could have thrown grenades into the classroom. He could have thrown a
>stick of dynamite. More easily, he could have planted charges in the
>buildings and blown them up.

Offhand I would guess that it is harder to get your hands on a grenade or a 
stick of dynamite than on a handgun.  True, there are other alternatives:  
Cho Seung-Hui could have beaned his victims with a rock, shot them with an 
arrow, whacked them with an axe or pricked them with a poison dart.  But for 
quick, convenient, reliable mass slaughter using an easy-to-get weapon, guns 
are hard to beat.

Carl

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