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Thread #100831   Message #2030094
Posted By: Big Mick
19-Apr-07 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Virginia Tech Shooting, 20 dead?
Subject: RE: BS: Virginia Tech Shooting, 20 dead?
Actually, kat, you need to sharpen up your reading before making a point. What I said was,

But my opinion is that he was psychotic and would have found another way to make his point.

I know you want to be right, but I didn't say the other way was with a gun. As I have said before in this debate, it is very easy to fill the trunk of a car with fertilizer, and with some kero and a few ingredients, make a bomb capable of killing a great many people. A psychotic such as Cho, with decent computer skills, and a premeditated devotion to carry out this act, could have carried off his killing very easily. Should we ban fertilizer?

This man was committed to doing what he did. He chose guns as his weapons. Were those not available to him (as they shouldn't have been if the instant check system worked properly) he surely would have found another method to address his perceived grievances.

Mick