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    If you walk into a mass shooter's house and find 100 different models of assault rifle, is that scary?

    None of those weapons will have been used, since, you know, they're still stacked up at home. Unless this is the Matrix, or the individual is some kind of Lakshmi-Rambo hybrid, then any number of weapons left behind at their home is not 'scary" unless it signifies accomplices or a larger network.

    For now, the takeaway from the pipe-bombs is that this was something they had been planning for a while, but probably without much or any outside assistance or training.
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    For a reason still being determined, it looks like the attack was accelerated and was not the original attack as planned but more spontaneous. Thus, why the bombs were not used. FYI, one of the deadliest terrorists attacks in the US was the Oklahoma City Bombing. 168 deaths, 680+ injuries. That's around 12 times worse than San Bernardino. So yeah, bombs are no joke if the terrorists have the patience to plan and deploy them properly.
    A truck bomb is not a pipe bomb. I'm sure a pipe bomb also has the potential to be dangerous in theory, I just haven't heard of many cases where they were in practice.

    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    If you walk into a mass shooter's house and find 100 different models of assault rifle, is that scary?
    If they are neatly lined up in velvet cases, no, if they lie in between human body parts that he used to make soup, yes.

    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    None of those weapons will have been used, since, you know, they're still stacked up at home. Unless this is the Matrix, or the individual is some kind of Lakshmi-Rambo hybrid, then any number of weapons left behind at their home is not 'scary" unless it signifies accomplices or a larger network.
    Indeed, what does that tell us about the actual success rate of killing people with pipe bombs? I linked to the wikipedia lising of cases where they were used, and apart from one or two cases, even then they did not seem all that deadly. It lists two or three cases where only the perpetrator died, either at home or even during the attempt to kill others. If those are among the most noteworthy cases of use, well...

    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    For now, the takeaway from the pipe-bombs is that this was something they had been planning for a while, but probably without much or any outside assistance or training.
    Yes, in a way I just found it interesting that so many people planned something with pipe bombs but so few people were actually ever killed by one. Which is a good thing I guess, maybe more pipe bomb recipes on the internet could drown out the actually dangerous ones.


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