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Originally Posted by Rochard
The risk isn't worth the reward.
The reason why people use guns is because it's very quick and easy. One man can kill two dozen people in under a minute, and very little can be done to stop him. It's not the same with a baseball bat or a knife - it takes too long and it's way too messy - and this is why no one ever goes on a killing spree with a bat or a knife.
It's the same thing with a bomb. First off, these people are cowards and don't want to hurt themselves. Second, the risk is too great - it would take too long and there is a chance he would get caught. Third, the reward is too little - What is he going to do, booby trap a door and "maybe" hurt two people.
There's the discussion that "guns don't kill people, people kill people". While that is a correct statement, you don't see people a dozen other people with a baseball bat. A firearm enables a killer - It's quick, painless, "neat", and very difficult to stop.
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Well look at this situation - given how he got in (let in through the back door), given they don't exactly check for guns let alone bombs or anything at movie theaters, given it's nice and dark, given how he was dressed - he could have put a timed or remote bomb in there and been out of there and possibly gotten away with it. That said, many of these end in the gunman shooting themselves, and if that's the case - if they're dying along with what they're doing, then who gives a shit how well they could conceal a bomb or anything - just conceal it as best they could, get into a crowd and kaboom.
Again though, I hear what you're saying. Guns are certainly easier - a 3 year old knows how to shoot a gun. Guns are surely easier to get too, which is the problem. Making them illegal may solve that problem while creating another (criminals freely fucking people up). Making them harder to get may not completely solve the problem but at least it probably wouldn't create the other problem.
I dunno - I'm not really sure with the culture of this country that violent acts like this are really preventable. There's always going to be a nut that wants to kill people. There's always going to be an idiot letting this guy in through the back door. There's always going to be access to weapons of some kind, whether the person has to buy it in a store, on the black market, create it, etc. If we can change the culture somehow, that would be a better answer than anything else, but that's pretty much impossible. Violence sells.