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					  Originally Posted by  MadMojoMonkey
					 
				 
				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.
					 
				 
				
			 
			 
		  
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