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re: Would a deranged student be more deadly with a truck than gun?
Posted on 3/20/18 at 8:31 am to Centinel
Posted on 3/20/18 at 8:31 am to Centinel
"But he's not comparing it. His argument, as I see it (since I make the same) is that banning guns will simply result in these kids using another means to create mass casualties."
It's not much of an argument with school shootings, though, as compared to ideologically or religiously inspired terrorist attacks. School shooters are frequently into first person shooter games and suicidal as well as homicidal. Also, inflicting mass casualties with a vehicle is more effective in certain areas, such as the street parties in Nice, or heaven forbid, a mardi gras parade, but if what someone wishes to do is shoot people inside a school building, then they're going to need a gun, not a truck. To answer the specific question raised by the OP, the answer is that a deranged student could be very deadly with a truck, but not in most school settings.
It's not much of an argument with school shootings, though, as compared to ideologically or religiously inspired terrorist attacks. School shooters are frequently into first person shooter games and suicidal as well as homicidal. Also, inflicting mass casualties with a vehicle is more effective in certain areas, such as the street parties in Nice, or heaven forbid, a mardi gras parade, but if what someone wishes to do is shoot people inside a school building, then they're going to need a gun, not a truck. To answer the specific question raised by the OP, the answer is that a deranged student could be very deadly with a truck, but not in most school settings.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 8:40 am to Centinel
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But he's not comparing it. His argument, as I see it (since I make the same) is that banning guns will simply result in these kids using another means to create mass casualties. Addressing the tool is pointless. You have to address the underlying cause...because the underlying cause will just change tools.
Exactly.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 8:41 am to Brightside Bengal
Let's see. There's been 129 people that have been killed by vehicle ramming accidents since 2014. Meanwhile, there were 11,000 gun related homicides in 2016 alone.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 9:12 am to N.O. via West-Cal
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swer is that a deranged student could be very deadly with a truck, but not in most school settings.
There are plenty of school settings where students congregate together in an open area.
The answe is yes, he could be more deadly with a vehicle if it were well planned.
These kids are sick. Removing the gun as the tool will not make him less homocidal or suicidal.
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