[Pewpewarrows]

Not looking to get into a whole thing here, but...

> he wouldn't have been able to if he didn't have easy access to firearms and a large cache of ammunition.

There's no possible way you can know that. Guns are certainly more accessible than, say, making a pipe bomb, but definitely less accessible than knives. Reference that story floating around the internet the past few days of some guy stabbing 22 kids in China. Not to mention the fact that you also have no knowledge of how capable he was of illegally obtaining the firearms and ammunition from other sources.

[glhaynes]

Zero of those 22 kids in China died.

[bunderbunder]

I have read about that one. There's a significant difference in verbs between the two stories. In one sentence it's "stabbed", in the other it's "killed".

And only seven of them needed to be taken to the hospital.

[lotharbot]

But you probably didn't read about the other knife/axe/hammer attacks in China over the last few years, some of which did kill a lot of people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_%282010...

(via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers:_School... ).