Worse Columbine

The initial plan of the Columbine massacre involved detonating propane bombs in the school cafeteria, potentially killing hundreds of students. The bombs failed to detonate luckily. A very chilling scenario. Would gun controls have been tighter if such massive deaths were to have occured?
 
Last time I checked bombs were not classified as "guns".

The initial plan was to blow up the entire school, killing almost everyone.
 
No, Americans have more or less decided that the price of the 'right to bear arms', almost 10,000 gun homicides a year and about 16,000 gun suicides per year, is worth bearing.
 

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They could have systematicly shot every student in the school and it would not have made any difference to the response.

Correction, a few things would have changed: The anti-depressant medication Luvox would have been permanently banned and the manufacturers bankrupted by civil lawsuits.
The wearing of long overcoats at American schools would be expressly prohibited.
Tec-9 handgun and pump action shotgun sales would have increased.
 
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Realistically I have to agree that short of some involvement of what we would now call WMDs (by which I'm really thinking in the realm of the possible, small scale chemical weapons use) the number of casualties at Columbine isn't going to change anything. It could be reduced by a smaller body count, but there is very much a limit to how much bigger a few more would make the reaction. If anything successful bomb (or other) attacks are going to diminish the anti gun reaction, even if there are actually more casualties.
 
If those bombs had gone off and killed the 400-or-so people in the canteen at the time, the bullshit backlash against the 'individualist loners' would probably have been even more intense than it was OTL, making my High School years even more difficult than they were already (post-Columbine attitudes weren't just restricted to America).
Other than that and possibly more backlash against computer games, I can't picture there being that many differences, especially in the long-term.
 
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IIRC, (according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#Journals_and_videos ) after blowing up the school, they planned on waiting outside the school and gunning down whoever tried to escape, then driving to the airport in Denver and hijacking a plane before crashing it somewhere in New York City.

I doubt they would've gotten anywhere near the airport before being caught by state troopers, but the absolute ASB-ish worst case scenario for Columbine was on the scale of 9/11 in magnitude.
 
If those bombs had gone off and killed the 400-or-so people in the canteen at the time, the bullshit backlash against the 'individualist loners' would probably have been even more intense than it was OTL, making my High School years even more difficult than they were already (post-Columbine attitudes weren't just restricted to America).
Other than that and possibly more backlash against computer games, I can't picture there being that many differences, especially in the long-term.

Yup. The same sort of Stigma was in England too. Secondary School would have been a Hell of a lot harder for me and others.

I blame the damn Guardian for accusing the two of being 'Goths'.
 
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