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tiny elvis

(979 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 06:43 PM Apr 2013

Are guns as destructive as bombs

in relation to manpower?
Two men, two bombs, more than one hundred badly hurt.
One man, one gun, up to 70 shot.
One device requires assembly in secret, the other is bought at the grocery store.

also
ABC news 'asked' if a gun ruining 4/20 made marijuana look bad.
The Colorado scare had a basic resemblance to the Boston terrorism.
The gunfire in Colorado surely came from a stupid person.
The Boston terror had no known strategic value, so stupid.
Both unreasonable in any context.
Will ABC news ask if bombs make marathon running look bad?

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Are guns as destructive as bombs (Original Post) tiny elvis Apr 2013 OP
What is out there for personal armaments is astonding exboyfil Apr 2013 #1
no doubt dynamite is stonger and does not need a heavy container tiny elvis Apr 2013 #2
I am thinking package size exboyfil Apr 2013 #3
portability does figure into manpower tiny elvis Apr 2013 #4

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
1. What is out there for personal armaments is astonding
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 07:19 PM
Apr 2013

Here is a link to something that could have fit into a smaller backpack than the Boston bombers. It has a 23 round capacity of 12 Gauge shells. Assume buckshot in a crowd and you have over 200 very lethal projectiles delivered chest height in about 10 seconds. Total cost about $5K. You can make a bomb for a lot less though. You can make a much more lethal bomb than what was used in Boston in the same size package.

http://www.alliancearmament.com/acceleratordemovideo1.aspx

tiny elvis

(979 posts)
2. no doubt dynamite is stonger and does not need a heavy container
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 08:26 PM
Apr 2013

but it is hard to get
any unauthorized explosive device is illegal

in relation to manpower,
was the 2-3 man team that built and deployed the OKC bomb potentially more destructive than 2-3 men
with the guns that you describe?

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
3. I am thinking package size
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 08:36 PM
Apr 2013

as horrible as OKC was, it was targeting primarily a building and a symbol. You can imagine scenarios where a Ryder trick can be optimized for maximum lethality in a crowd.

tiny elvis

(979 posts)
4. portability does figure into manpower
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 09:14 PM
Apr 2013

the murrah building casualties are high for any kind of target

anders breivik used both bombs and a gun with different results

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