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Austin Bomber Blows Self Up

Sure. This POS was definitely a terrorist. A White Supremacist blowing up POC. So, yeah. Slam dunk.

But, people will resist labeling him correctly. Not sure why. But, I know it is inevitable.

i've yet to see any evidence of terrorism. Murder, yes. Terrorism, no.

In addition, there is zero evidence showing he is a white supremacist thus far, and his recorded manifesto seems to reveal no such thing.

There were some white supremacist terrorists arrested a few days ago for pipe bombing that Minnesota mosque (and attempting to bomb an abortion clinic but the bomb failed to explode), because they wanted to scare muslims to 'go home', and one was a firm supporter of Trump's border wall.

nothing thus far showing this bomber was a white supremacist or a terrorist at all. Could come out in the future as the investigation proceeds, tho.
 
Which would place it well behind more than twenty mass shootings in terms of death toll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States#Deadliest_shootings

With five bombs, he managed to kill or injure only five people.

And then, of course, he managed to kill himself in the process as well.

So no, the idea that bombings could replace mass shootings is a joke.

The largest school massacre was done with a bomb, so your argument is a bit.... ignorant.
 
The only downside is not finding out why he did it.

What difference does that make? Are we suddenly going to start locking up "weird kids" that are deemed likely to become dangerous some day?
 
i've yet to see any evidence of terrorism. Murder, yes. Terrorism, no.

In addition, there is zero evidence showing he is a white supremacist thus far, and his recorded manifesto seems to reveal no such thing.

There were some white supremacist terrorists arrested a few days ago for pipe bombing that Minnesota mosque (and attempting to bomb an abortion clinic but the bomb failed to explode), because they wanted to scare muslims to 'go home', and one was a firm supporter of Trump's border wall.

nothing thus far showing this bomber was a white supremacist or a terrorist at all. Could come out in the future as the investigation proceeds, tho.

His victims were all people of color. I doubt that was a strange coincidence.
 
He bought much of his kit at Home Depot.

Ban Home Depot
 
The largest school massacre was done with a bomb, so your argument is a bit.... ignorant.

Which was about a century ago, so unless you want to start talking about the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the like.......
 
Keep dreaming if you think bombs can't be more deadly than an attacker with a gun.

The good guys with guns can't stop a bomb.

Two attacks from more than two decades ago and one which,while it only killed a few people, wounded many more.

Hardly anywhere near the constant stream of mass shootings.

A gun is a lot easier for a bad guy to construct and utilize than a bomb.
 
Apparently, you've never heard of the Bali Bombing that killed over 200 people that far exceeds any single mass shooting death toll.

When it comes specifically to mass school killings, a simple home made bomb(1) has proven to be deadlier than any single mass shooting.

Wake up, bombs are deadlier than firearms & much more affordable to a wider range of people.




(1) "The 1927 Bombing That Remains America’s Deadliest School Massacre"
"Ninety years ago, a school in Bath, Michigan was rigged with explosives in a brutal act that stunned the town"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hist...chool-massacre-180963355/#KSipwm4IUrIbB9uc.99
EXCERPTS "In the end 44 people died, 38 of them students. It wasn’t the first bombing in the country’s history—at least eight were killed during the Haymarket Square rally in Chicago in 1886, and 30 when a bomb exploded in Manhattan in 1920. But none had been so deadly as this, or affected so many children."CONTINUED

Actually, you seem to have forgotten that said bombing was almost a century ago, and thus hardly a "profilic" string of incidents.
 
Two attacks from more than two decades ago and one which,while it only killed a few people, wounded many more.

Hardly anywhere near the constant stream of mass shootings.

A gun is a lot easier for a bad guy to construct and utilize than a bomb.

Is it? Seems like a bomb is pretty easy to get all the components to. Home Depot + the internet= bomb.
 
Why does a nutbag's excuse matter? It's always the convenient excuse. Anti fed nationalist militia, Islamic terrorists... whatever's convenient for the individual. These people, psycho/sociopaths or otherwise severe illness, latch onto anything that can be used to rationalize their deeds. It's absurd to give their excuse any value.

When a terrorist says "It's America's fault", do we believe them?
When a terrorist says, "The Bible made me do it", do we believe them?
When a terrorist says, "Had to oppose the fema camps", do we believe them?

The words of these scumbags have no value to me whatsoever. It's just victim card BS used to rationalize what the sick garbage wanted to do.

Settle down, Francis.

I wasn't so much referring to his reasoning/excuses so much as the actual mental issues/deficiencies that he may have been suffering from that were behind it. Because you've got to have something seriously wrong with your mental faculties to send out a package to kill random people, right?
 
Apparently, you've never heard of the Bali Bombing that killed over 200 people that far exceeds any single mass shooting death toll.

When it comes specifically to mass school killings, a simple home made bomb(1) has proven to be deadlier than any single mass shooting.

Wake up, bombs are deadlier than firearms & much more affordable to a wider range of people.

Based on no scientific evidence whatsoever, I would presume that detonating a bomb would appeal to a considerably smaller subgroup of future child-killers than guns.
 
Actually, you seem to have forgotten that said bombing was almost a century ago, and thus hardly a "profilic" string of incidents.


So, you're saying that bombings are rare on a thread about a recent serial bomber? LOL
 
Is it? Seems like a bomb is pretty easy to get all the components to. Home Depot + the internet= bomb.

That's what everyone thinks....right before the bomb goes off prematurely, which has happened to huge numbers of would be bomb makers over the years.

How many mass shooters have died when their gun went off prematurely?
 
So, you're saying that bombings are rare on a thread about a recent serial bomber? LOL

So you are saying a bombing from almost a century ago and a handful of bombs which total killed or wounded less than a dozen people are a pattern? LOL.
 
His victims were all people of color. I doubt that was a strange coincidence.

well, the minute you can show that he was a white supremacist, and that he had some sort of racial bias driving him, come back and tell us. Until then, there is no evidence that he was a white supremacist or a terrorist. sorry.
 
What difference does that make? Are we suddenly going to start locking up "weird kids" that are deemed likely to become dangerous some day?

Am I the only one that wants to delve into the psyche of these school shooters to find an actual cause for what they do? ... find out which wires are crossed in their brains that justifies to them (in their mind) killing school kids or random strangers at a concert?
 
Which was about a century ago, so unless you want to start talking about the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the like.......

so you can't address the facts that show you're full of it. gotcha.
 
Am I the only one that wants to delve into the psyche of these school shooters to find an actual cause for what they do? ... find out which wires are crossed in their brains that justifies to them (in their mind) killing school kids or random strangers at a concert?

Delve away but that is still not likely to do much more than add them to the "no gun" list along with all convicted felons (also allowed to roam freely among us) that commit far, far more "gun crime" than these few loons do.
 
Delve away but that is still not likely to do much more than add them to the "no gun" list along with all convicted felons that commit far, far more "gun crime" than these few loons do.

Think bigger. Think "finding defective neural pathways in common (amongst killers) and how to correct them". I'm not talking about "what would we do with this ONE dude". I'm thinking "knowledge to advance mankind"-type of stuff.
 
Think bigger. Think "finding defective neural pathways in common (amongst killers) and how to correct them". I'm not talking about "what would we do with this ONE dude". I'm thinking "knowledge to advance mankind"-type of stuff.

OK, so until then - we identify them, place them on the official "no gun" list and let them roam freely among us.
 
Hes the LW press gotten the most important part of the story. Whether or not he was Trump supporter.
 
Based on no scientific evidence whatsoever, I would presume that detonating a bomb would appeal to a considerably smaller subgroup of future child-killers than guns.

Would you please explain on what basis you formed your opinion because I feel the opposite is true.

I feel that way because not only are bombs potentially deadlier & more affordable to a wider range of people but a bomber is more likely to be able to distance himself from his mass killing & get away to kill again while a shooting mass killer must either kill himself, be killed or be arrested.


There may still be casualties from bombs put into circulation from the bomber that is the topic of this thread but with a shooting mass killer, the number of casualties is finite upon his death or capture.
 
That's what everyone thinks....right before the bomb goes off prematurely, which has happened to huge numbers of would be bomb makers over the years.

How many mass shooters have died when their gun went off prematurely?


You're misrepresenting the facts as usual, the bomber blew himself up intentionally after he'd been caught.

And, you have nothing on which to base your claim that "huge numbers" of bomb makers have accidentally blown themselves up.

Just because simple tasks come hard for you doesn't mean that they are difficult to the average teenager.
 
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