12-16-2012, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by jplinville
BS!! A knife is much more easily concealed than a gun, and much smaller as well. With little training, anyone can become a mass murderer with any thing; rocks, chemicals, explosives, knives, vehicles, guns...they are all deadly.
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This may be true; however, your point is exaggerated – mainly because we have yet to hear of a mass killing that involved a killer using rocks and/or knives.
I can understand a serial killer may use any instrument to kill numerous people; however, they are typically not all killed simultaneously at once like a mass shooting. Guns are unique in that a person can kill large amounts of people, indiscriminately and efficiently. More importantly, guns take little to no technical knowledge to be used effectively; where-as, chemicals can dissipate reducing their toxicity, and home manufactured explosives require a higher degree of technical knowledge to implement.
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