Quote:People with bad intentions will always figure out a way to get what they need to cause the harm they intend to cause. So making guns illegal or harder to purchase will only keep the weapons away from the good guys. It's no different than illegal drugs. If you want them bad enough...they're easy to obtain.

 

Yup. 

 

These 9 murders in Charleston occurred in a gun free zone.  I'm betting the law abiding citizens in the church were following the laws, especially considering the fact that the pastor also supported the legislation making it illegal to conceal carry in a church in SC. 

 

If the gun wasn't available to this guy legally, he would have found another way to carry out his plan.  Maybe it would have meant fewer victims.  Maybe it would have meant more depending on how he went about executing his targets. 

 

 

Quote:Buying two ingredients does not make a bomb but ok.

 

If you don't know what you're talking about, it's usually better just to not say anything.  For a fraction of what it cost to buy the Glock he used for this, he could have built multiple bombs. 

 

With enough diesel fuel, fertillizer, nails or other scrap, casing, and an ignition source to build mutiple bombs, he could have gotten out of Home Depot for under $150, and he could have done significantly more devastation than he did.  It doesn't take much skill to build a cheap pipe bomb.  Look at the Boston Marathon bombing.  They bought a couple of cheap pressure cookers and look a the destruction that caused.

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