Yeah, it's hard to stop them from driving you bonkers.

But to answer your question, I guess because guns make a better phallic symbol than bombs? And, after all, guns will solve all of society's ills.

Thank goodness they caught the guy-he committed suicide. Wonder if it will come out he was a White Supremist setting off bombs in an interacial area. Seems weird to use that term today-mixed ethnically sound better?

We could go even further. Notice all the seals on products? I don't know how many remember the cases of people adulterating products and poisoning people but the industry had to do something. Now we are all have to be inconvenienced a bit in order to be safe. We humans are extremely complex machines and one bad piece of wiring and everyone is at risk. Multiply that problem by billions and billions and we get total societal breakdown. Another example of hidden overpopulation problems.

Go on and vent brother... but life, is not a joke. I was working in Northern Virginia and living in Maryland when the DC Sniper was making his rounds. I was not scared but I was awared... It Was Not Funny.