Internet blamed for pipe bombs

[Thomas C. Allard]

Lucky Green wrote:
> 
> At 5:36 7/28/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
> 
> >>   Across the country, latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,
> >>   Tobacco and Firearms show a 20 percent jump in pipe bomb incidents
> >>   between 1990 and 1994.
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >>   "We've been incredibly busy," said sheriff's bomb technician Judd
> >>   Holiday. "As crime in other categories is dropping, this is going up."
[...]
> I would like offer another
> possible explanation for the increase in pipe bombings. The People are
> getting frustrated and a pipe bomb can be very useful device releasing
> one's frustration.
> 
> [No, I do not approve of pipe bombing civilians].

Well, the statistic itself is pretty meaningless without some context.
There may have been a "20 percent jump" between '90 and '94, but at
what rate had pipe bomb "incidents" been growing BEFORE that?

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