[TheForge] Re: Nitric acid/OT

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

The whole proposition is silly. Most any of us could wreak terrible 
damage/morbidity/mortality with materials on hand.
The basic premise our nation is founded on is that the citizens are 
competent adults who hold it all in their hands...we seem to have 
abandoned that view.
It's easy to fuckthings up, always has been. We can't make it not so and 
still remain functional..........
Just as we can't be perfectly secure and have much freedom at all.
Feh indeed....PF

Mike Spencer wrote:

>Andy quoth:
>z
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>>I suspect this is some more 9/11 backlash.  It's very easy
>>to make things that go boom with it.  Gun cotton, while not> 
>>explosive in itself, becomes so when confined.  A few large
>>bales of cotton soaked in nitric would make a goodly amount
>>of boom.
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>[RANT MODE ON]
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>Really irritates me.  You can make nitroglycerine in yr back yard,
>too.  No self-respecting terrorist would mess around with hazardous
>chemicals when he could buy or steal modern explosives.  I suppose
>that, oh, say, one in ten depressed teenage wannabe-Matrix-Dude loner
>geeks who tried it might succeed and one in seven of those might
>survive the process.
>
>Any day now, you'll need a munitions license to own a beat up
>honky-tonk piano lest you pry off the celluloid key covers, shred them
>up and bomb your least-favorite authority figure.
>
>Feh.
>
>[RANT MODE  OFF]
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