Explosives are readily available (some assembly required) at grocery stores, hardware stores, gas stations, nurseries (plant type), etc.
While I can’t presently recall any definitive court rulings, the courts have recognized the difference between “arms” and “ordnance” on several occasions. Explosives and explosive devices almost invariably fall into the second category, and thus don’t receive Constitutional protection.
As far as Apos goes:
While the 2nd Amendment may (or may not) guarantee and individual right to keep and bear arms, no right is absolute. Current federal regulations prohibit the possession of long guns (rifles and shotguns) to anyone under the age of 18, and handguns to anyone under the age of 21.
Jeff Weise had no 2nd Amendment rights to exercise.
The NRA has finally sounded off on this massacre.
Sandra Froman, who’ll probably be the next president of the NRA, says schools should now consider arming teachers.
I don’t know about you, but if teachers were packing heat when I was in school, I’d have dropped out.
Armed faculty in schools does not necessarily equate to “More Bullets” and more “collateral damage.” In the comparatively few cases of armed intervention by in mass shootings, the aggressors have simply given up when confronted by opposing force, most often without a shot having been fired.
In the 1 October, 1997 shooting in Pearl Mississippi, it was Asst. Principal Joel Myrick who brought killer Luke Woodham to heel with the .45-caliber automatic pistol he kept in his truck.
In the 17 January, 2002 shooting at the Appalachian Law School, two students, Mikael Gross and Tracy Bridges, confronted shooter Peter Odighizuwa after retrieving their handguns from their cars in the school parking lot.
I thought this was spot on when I first read it, but a report in the local (HK) paper about the seriousness of the problem in Korea has prompted me to respond now.
A beautiful Korean actress aged 24 killed herself on 22 February, apparently suffering from depression. Since then, the average number of suicides in the country has risen by 250% (in raw terms from six a week, to 15 a week). There has been a significant increase in the number of young people who are killing themselves since her death.
Besides publication of details about the manner of her death, news media have a habit, according to the Head of the Korean Journalists’ Association, of disregarding guidelines on reporting suicides, specifically established to prevent copycat suicides. The guidelines that are routinely ignored include not giving graphic details of the scene and not speculating on the cause of death in detail.