The Weapons Of The Killer Cowards - Brief Article

Guns Magazine, Nov, 1999 by Massad Ayoob

Fortunately, the two vicious little psychopaths at Columbine High School were lousy shots. Almost everyone they killed was at close "execution" range. They were even less up to speed with the bombs they made, thank God, because if their explosive ordnance had worked as they intended, the death toll could have reached three figures.

The fact is, cowards who wish to kill the helpless can do so more effectively with bombs than with guns. Explosives in this country have long been as rigidly controlled as Sarah Brady wants guns to be. Of course, this didn't stop the Columbine killer-cowards from assembling some 67 explosive devices.

When you've decided to violate the ultimate law of God and mankind and commit murder, laws governing things like guns and explosives don't seem to get in your way. And there's no law against gasoline and matches. Let's look at some figures:

25: The number of innocent people killed when Jose Antonio Cordero set fire to the Puerto Rican Social Club in the Bronx in 1975.

169: The number of innocent people killed when Robert Segee torched the Ringling Brothers circus in Hartford, Conn., in 1944.

270: The number of innocent people killed when a bomb, believed to have been planted by Libyan terrorists, exploded aboard Pan American Airways Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. (259 were passengers and crew. Eleven villagers were killed when the flaming wreckage plunged to earth.)