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In reply to the discussion: Why is a pressure-cooker bomb a "weapon of mass destruction" but [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)22. Tell that to the people tasked with the clean up of those childrens bodies at Newtown
I have heard chilling details that there weren't actual bodies to recover per se.
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Why is a pressure-cooker bomb a "weapon of mass destruction" but [View all]
no_hypocrisy
Apr 2013
OP
No, because there's a specific definition of WMD under US criminal law. You should read it. (nt)
Posteritatis
Apr 2013
#20
Perhaps it is because a WMD will usually injure/maim/kill a large number of victims all at once,
bike man
Apr 2013
#15
Tell that to the people tasked with the clean up of those childrens bodies at Newtown
VanillaRhapsody
Apr 2013
#22
Because a single 'shot' from it can injure multiple people/property. How hard is this reallY?
The Straight Story
Apr 2013
#25
Slaughtering 20 children and 6 adults with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle is NOT "mass destruction"
El Fuego
Apr 2013
#34
If cooker bombs are WMDs, then we found a whole bunch of WMDs in Iraq and Bush is a hero.
Scuba
Apr 2013
#35