Your second amendment rights are getting in the way of our rights.

[Pholus]

276. No, you pride yourself on your "power" over others.

The gun owners crawling out of the woodwork on this are sooooo scared to be tarred by association with the shooter. Sorry, pal, it's merely a matter of degree. You're all alike in your motivations. It's just you have a handful of social inhabitions more than the shooter did.

It's all about insecurity and its all about control. Nothing more, nothing less.

Knowing all this shit is not good or evil by itself. It's chemistry and physics and engineering, no different than the many, far more constructive applications. But it's the destructive side.

But you have to wonder about why sooooo many people are sooooo fascinated by these destructive parts. You know, the guns and the plethora of "MORE lethal and cheaper means" you imply. I'll take a stab -- it may not be you but it's definitely others like you who I know way too well. They seek this information because it makes them feel important or relevant to know it. They can look at others and pride themselves on their intelligence because they "know 30 ways to kill people with your bare hands" or some such crap like that.

NOTHING you know is beyond my grasp, I merely haven't been goaded by insecurity or ego into going through the process of learning it. Nor do I worship it for its own sake. It exists, it is just not relevant to me because I have far better things to do with my time.

That is the difference between us. You label me naive, I label you scared and insecure.