by Fred Reed

About the author: Fred Reed writes the Police Beat column for the Washington Times.

The flap over the April 19, 1995, bombing in Oklahoma had a lot of people asking questions on the order of, “How did [primary suspect] Timothy McVeigh, if Mr. McVeigh it was, get the materials, and how did he know how to make a bomb, and why can’t we control the materials"”

Lethal Titles

The questions are reasonable, but the answers, I’m afraid, aren’t. An entire little industry exists to teach the lethal-minded to be lethal in reality. It’s pretty amazing.

For example (there are others), in Boulder, Colorado, there is an outfit called Paladin Press. You probably haven’t heard of it, but it is just a short...