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When two (or three, or four) people conspired to bomb the Oklahoma City Federal Building last week, they joined the exceedingly exclusive club of terrorists who operate inside America. They joined another club, however, which is far less exclusive: American perpetrators of random violence...
Violence fascinates and excites us. From the yearly Schwarzenegger blockbuster movie to the Mortal Kombat Super Nintendo phenomenon, we teach American children that murder is acceptable, as long as it is funny, or clever, or amusing. Yet we expect them to understand when we say that the Oklahoma City incident was none of these things. Moreover, we introduce them to the tools of real murder, and expect them not to carry out the lessons they learned from their video games. Stories of children killing children far too often mar the front pages of national newspapers...
...Oklahoma City bombing was not merely two lunatics with Ammonia Nitrate and blasting caps. It was a symptom of our violent society, but it was also a product of allowing private citizens to possess dangerous weapons, whether blasting caps or hand-guns...
...debate, then, centers chiefly around when this control should stop. The National Rifle Association and the NSSF say it should stop now, or even that we have too much control and that regulation should be loosened. The Oklahoma City bombing, along with the rampant gun violence in our cities, provides a striking testimony to the contrary...
Dozens of FBI agents and local police swarmed into a motel in Carthage, Mo., at dawn today, arresting two men sought as witnesses inthe Oklahoma City bombing. Gary Allen Land and Robert Jacks were found when their white 1981 Thunderbird with Arizona plates, registered to Land, was spotted in the motel lot last night. Authorities believe the men were associates ofbombing suspect Timothy McVeighand witnesses to the explosion. FBI officials say both men are cooperating with the investigation, and neither is John Doe No. 2.The Oklahoma Explosion Page