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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Well, my point is that the availability of materials informs the method of violence. Kids who like to blow things up either go on to be gun collectors or med students, in my experience. The availability of guns here tends to push violence that direction. The lack of avilability else tends to push violence in the direction of political statement using large explosions.
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I disagree that the lack of availability changes the motive. Lack of availability of one weapon just pushes people to choose different weapons. The choice of weapon does not make something a "political statement." It also doesn't make mass murder something other than mass murder.
I love it when people call mass murder a "political statement." A "political statement" is when I stopped voting Republican and told people about my choice. If I had decided to kill a few other Republicans to shut them up .... that would have been murder, not a statement.