????? I feel like Im on a merry go round now.

>>If McVeigh had been "packin'" that day, why didn't McVeigh just shoot the cop, and keep on driving?
I suspect McVeigh would have been the better shot. He's been praised for exceptional marksmanship>>

thats what you said. just because he was not "packin" that day doesnt mean he was not obsessed with guns and gun rights. by every thing i have read on wiki and other places he most certainly was.

>>Virtually all who knew Tim well recalled his obsession with guns and his penchant for stockpiling weapons and supplies in the event that there was a problem with the government. >>
http://www.eyeonhate.com/mcveigh/mcveigh6.html

>>McVeigh leapt at the Army as if it were his only hope of shoehorning an increasingly strong passion for guns into a life that looked normal from the outside.>>
http://www.washingtonpost.../oklahoma/bg/mcveigh.htm

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McVeigh was obsessed with guns. He often kept a 9-mm Glock pistol in the barracks with him -- not locked up in the arms room, as rules require. His personal arsenal, including a Czech machine gun and assorted pistols, shotguns and rifles, was stashed in the trunk of his car. Still, neither Littleton nor Guild would have pegged McVeigh as a terrorist. "Something happened to Tim McVeigh between the time he left the Army and now," Guild says.>>
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/...-3,00.html#ixzz12e34WGS7

I have virtually dozens of articles i could post about his obsession. i dont know why he chose a bomb instead of a gun. probably because it could kill more people. i have no idea.

you say he is not a gun nut. i disagree based on dozens of articles from what i call reputable sources. thats all. its my opinion.

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"