[aj700]

When the Met(ropolitan Police) or Gendarmerie Nationale or Carabinieri raid a property, the terrorists they are looking for have only household improvised weapons. Every European is today, once again glibly pointing this out (touché). When they are in the US, given the behaviour [le mot juste] of congress today, is it surprising that they can and so will shoot back? Of course they will. It is inexplicable and totally bizarre to the rest of the world that they are lethally "armed and dangerous" because they ARE LEGALLY ALLOWED TO BE.

"We don't care that the world things we are all immovably, constitutionally crazy" is such a weird position. You seem not to. One nation demonstrably under the NRA.

Americans seem to actually think that these weekly gun massacres happen everywhere else too. They just don't.

It is now absolutely clear that you can kill hundreds in a day with a few of your own guns, and the federal government will spring into not the tiniest bit of action.

[lukifer]

The atrocity in Boston has not the slightest thing to do with gun policy. Any nutjob can create homemade bombs whether or not guns are legal.

[msandford]

And the people who planted the bombs are definitely NOT law abiding citizens. If they're willing to kill a bunch of random, innocent bystanders how much more willing do you think they'd be to kill law enforcement bent on their apprehension? Once they decide they're willing to break the law and blow up bombs it stands to reason they'd be comfortable procuring some illegal guns as well.