Aswad
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 Gee in the suburbs of paris france they found a bomb factory. Could happen here. Yeah, yanno, Norway has already restricted AN and is banning acetone and hydrogen peroxide now. I think that's ludicrous, considering that the previous availability of the latter two has averted two acts of domestic terrorism so far, as acetone peroxide has this lovely property of being more likely to blow up terrorists than their targets. Similarly, ammonium nitrate being a tertiary explosive leads to most domestic terrorists using a secondary that is too small to effect a high order detonation (the bomb in Oslo was low order, hence the low death count). Making it more difficult to make bombs just forces people intent on making them to acquire more skills, more knowledge and better habits, resulting in a much higher probability of success on their part, and a lower probability of getting caught. Anyone can read up on it and use household goods you just can't ban to synthesize more reliable explosives without using anything traceable to make that. I very much prefer to make sure we don't incentivize domestic terrorists to actually learn their craft or get creative. IWYW, — Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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