[Frank Ettin]

Originally Posted by Tickling

...All I'm trying to say is that for the average person a gun is the most destructive thing available. A person who is emotionally unbalanced can reach for a gun and do the deed. Whereas if they have to manufacture an explosive you're looking at some time, time to stop and think....

First, in general rampage murders are planned and organized. It's not just a matter of grabbing a gun.

Rampage murders have certainly been committed without a gun:

• The worst school mass murder in U. S. history was committed without a gun: The The Bath School disaster -- 1927, 45 people killed (including 38 children) with dynamite, firebombs, pyrotol, a club and Winchester rifle (the rifle was used only in the killer's suicide).
  
  
• In 1995, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people and injured over 800 with a home made bomb in a truck
  
  
• One of the worst mass murders in U. S. history was committed without a gun: The Happy Land fire -- 1990, arson killing 87 people (and don't forget 9/11).
  
  
• And there was Priscilla Ford who in 1980 intentionally drove her car onto a crowded Reno, NV sidewalk killing 7.
  
  
• If you have a look at the listing of rampage killings on Wikipedia, you'll see that a great deal of damage has been done world wide without firearms.