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[wufwugy]

You're assigning a standard of rational thinking to someone whom is committed to mass murder, a decidedly irrational activity.

This is conflating two different types of rationality. The mass murderer has preferences and knows his preferences; therefore economic rationality applies.

[MadMojoMonkey]

This is conflating two different types of rationality. The mass murderer has preferences and knows his preferences; therefore economic rationality applies.

So this:
"I'm really excited about indiscriminately killing a bunch of people, but damn... there are guns at the school... fuck me, I'll do something else besides murder."
sounds to you like a probable thought process in a would-be mass murderer?

I assert that someone whom is criminally insane and committed to mass murder isn't going to be so easily deterred from their ambition.

[Poopadoop]

Ya I'm not buying this 'the only way they're going to be a mass murderer is if they can do it at a school' theory.

[wufwugy]

So this:
"I'm really excited about indiscriminately killing a bunch of people, but damn... there are guns at the school... fuck me, I'll do something else besides murder."
sounds to you like a probable thought process in a would-be mass murderer?

I assert that someone whom is criminally insane and committed to mass murder isn't going to be so easily deterred from their ambition.

It depends on the elasticity of their demand to murder and how much the cost changes. With a cost increase of committing a school shooting for would-be shooters, there would be a marginal reduction of the quantity demanded of school shootings by would-be shooters. The elasticity of their demand curve and the degree of cost increase would determine how big that marginal change is.