From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matt Simmons)
Subject: Re: Dead Professors and Tuition Refunds
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:05:27 GMT
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john peter wagner (wag5@quads.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan23.194145.830@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
: >Adam Levin (st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu) wrote:
: >: In a similar vein, recently a guy at Simon's Rock of Bard College went
: >: on a shooting spree the week before final, killing two. They sent the 
: >: entire school home the next day! I wish I knew what happened there,
: >: because if it was good, I can think of a few people here who can surely
: >: be sacrificed for the greater good (insert smiley here for the humor 
: >: impaired.) 
: >This is what confuses me...  Why do people go on shooting sprees and only kill
: >one or two people?  At the least, they have 6 bullets, and if they're smart,
: >they have a MAC-10 (available in your local neighborhood ghetto) or Uzi, etc..
: >I mean, if you're going to go on a shooting spree, why not do it right?  Wait
: >until you're in the middle of a crowd, pull out said MAC-10, pull the trigger,
: >and pivot....  (Just a thought...)
: >zarthac@cs1    \               / Macs are more bullet proof, because the  /
: 	Well, I'm sure he would've liked to, except that his
: gun was a semi-automatic. What that means is that it can only shoot
: one bullet per squeeze of the trigger.  Thus, it is like any police
True, but is it really that hard to pull the trigger that quickly?  Granted,
I don't have much experience in shooting sprees, but...

: revolver or semi-automatic rifle. I think what you want is a fully-
: automatic weapon, but those are extremely hard to get. In fact, they
: may well be illegal where he lives.  Maybe you could go and get
: your full-auto Uzi from one of the millions of Israeli citizens
: who carry them on a daily basis.
Or just make a trip into your local Inner City... 



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