This day in active shooter history.....

[Yonadav]

Bear in mind, it's a hell of a lot easier to shoot some bastard than to make a bomb like Timothy McVeigh did. There's a lot of information online, and a lot of it is bullshit.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017...s-not-easy

There's a very good chance that some budding mad bomber will find instructions on how to make a bomb, and it'll end up being a dud. Just look at the Columbine kids. If they actually could pull off the bomb they were building [protip: the Anarchist's Cookbook is utter shit, whether it's the real one or one of the online guides claiming to be the real one], the 14 kids who died in the shooting would have been an afterthought to the hundreds who would have died. And odds are, in this case, the budding Timothy McVeigh will likely have a lower body count, either because their bomb killed them before they killed anyone else, or because it failed and it immediately gets them on the police's (or DHS') radar.

I have no idea how the Anarchist Cookbook became so famous. That book is complete garbage. Everyone knows that The US Army Improvised Munitions Manual TM 31-210 is a real go to manual, along with The Poor Man's James Bond. But if you understand a little bit about the physics of explosions and just a smidgeon of the chemistry of poisons, you can do a hell of a lot of damage far more easily than anything that you will read in the Improvised Munitions Manual or The Poor Man's James Bond. You don't have to be that much of a Macgyver to do horrible things. I'm a little surprised that horrible things don't happen more often. But right now, we don't have homicidal people who are thinking outside the box very much.