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Re: BB Guns

Post by mr surveyor »

dukalmighty wrote:Due to several high profile homicides by school kids,I believe every threat should be taken seriously,but when a DA tries to make something seem worse than it is by loading up a table with bb guns to make it look like the kid had an arsenal of weapons,i find disturbing and scary,i reload and have several pounds of smokeless powder on handat any given time,due to this i will never be able to buy bb's because i will have the means to make a bomb,It's a slippery slope when we start saying he had the potential to make a bomb etc.there are chemicals in the ordinary household if you know what your doing when mixed will go boom but until they are mixed are perfectly legal.Just my 2 cents

and that's exactly the type of information presented in "The Anarchist's Cookbook", one of the sources of literature the kid supposedly had available. I read that one in the late 70's when studying arson investigation. That book in the hands of a 14 year old, mentally unstable individual is potentially more dangerous (in my opinion) than the High Point Carbine, or the two newly announced 22 cal weapons. I have also been in a really foul media mood for the last several days, mostly due to the idiotic coverage of Fox News. Normally, I'll give them their early, first time stupid statements covering a new story, but when they continue to drill for ignorance within their ranks, and find gushers every day, spweing the same disinformation, it's hard to accept.

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Post by mcub »

I find our reactions to it as troubling as the "antis" as we seem to have named them.

Consider:
The press did call them exactly what they are, an arsenal of air rifles + a pair of 9mm.

The boy's actions of accumulating the parts to convert a toy to live explosive and trying to recruit assistance is very troubling and the most import part of the story.

The fact "WE" seem to more worried about air guns being used to make "US" look bad in the press is just as disappointing as the Antis using his collection of BB guns to make toys into terroristic weapons.

The total absence of discussion about the growing problem of youths looking to murder-suicide is quite troubling to me.
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