Wasn’t the bomb right under a packed day care? What a shitty thing to do.
I’m still of the opinion that bombs are worse. With an active shooter I can at least have an idea of what is going on. Witha bomb not so much.
Thoughts?
Indeed, and no, it was not right under the daycare. Dude claimed he didn't know daycare was in the building, and might have chosen a different building if he knew. That may have been BS and he was clear that he had no remorse for the act itself, even though he felt the loss of children was unfortunate. He considered them collateral damage in his war. He said it was a strike back at the Feds for the unconstitutional murder of citizens by Federal Agents at Ruby Ridge and Waco, which were in fact real things. The ATF and DEA need to be fucking disbanded.
I agree wholeheartedly, bombs are far worse. That is not intended as a trivialization of the suffering small arms ambush survivors endure.
Chemical weapons attacks (Aleph n the 90's) are even worse, in my opinion, due to the insidious nature of the assault itself, but due to the difficulty in obtaining the weapon and staging the attack, I do not consider it anywhere near as bad as bombs. Bombs are far easier to obtain than firearms and have a potentially much nastier K
ratio. The only place firearms are more dangerous than bombs is ease of deployment.
In some attacks there are both. Columbine had both, yet they did not get to deploy the bombs.
As far as which is worse? I don't know. They're both bad. We should have laws against mass murder.
Yeah, Firearms are they most easily deployed weapon of murder, so they kids opted for lazy instead of effective. I have said since the incident, if the kids had focused on their ordinance rather than the small arms, they would have been wildly more effective. It is an unfortunate positive turn that they focused on the American firearms fetish.
Vegas is in the same ballpark, ish.
I think the biggest difference is, it is difficult to make an effective bomb, you are liable to be caught or blow yourself up while trying to figure it out, getting supplies or whatever.
comparatively, it's rather easy to get a hold of a gun and ammo, which is why the yearly number of deaths by bombs is very low, while deaths by guns is very high.
I think that bombings are worse for the people living in the places involved, because attacks seem like they could come from absolutely anywhere and finding the bad guy seems like it could take forever. especially with the sheer amount of packages people get nowadays with amazon and the like, and dubious delivery by contractors for those packages, package bombs like this could be really terrifying.
So, how many mentally ill persons considering harm against others just blow their own brains out first if they have access to firearms?
You need to remember, the psychology of the Mass Shooter is typically a suicidal one. They seek mass murder as a means of recognition to validate their self loathing and the meaninglessness of their lives. Their negative self image is both validated by the act of perceived evil, while simultaneously marking their significance to the world where they feel insignificant. They make the statement, "yes, I am shit, which is how I have long felt, but I still matter, look now and remember me for who I was."
