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Home made explosives are pretty much always illegal; I did not want to overlook legal ones. Joel Send a noteboard - 28/12/2012 11:44:19 PM
I was referring to homemade explosives, your reading problem is flaring up again, and contrasting the eficacy of explosives vs bullets in killing, not federal regulations regarding obtaining a licesnnse to handle explosives. Besides, why would someone planning to illegally blow something(one) up care abuot the legality of having the explosives? That is illogical.

Only to gun control opponents: The illegality of home made explosives makes anyone caught with them subject to imprisonment WITHOUT committing any additional crimes (i.e. murder.) Turns out, explosive are not really the BEST way to murder lots of people, because if anyone catches a person with them before the fact, they are done. Guns present no such problem, because anyone can walk up to an unlicensed arms dealer at a gunshow and say, "Hi, I am only 8, and legally blind, but I also have $500 bucks, so sell me a gun—actually, here is $500 more; my invisible friend says he wants one, too."

I would never put explosives in my coffee mug, there would be no room for the coffee.

Depends on the explosive, and the size of explosion desired. You could always just make the mug out of C-4—but you will need a federal license and registration for the C-4, unlike your guns.

High gun ownership=low crime. Thanks for proving my point. Now try finding what I asked you to find, a place where LOW gun ownership leads to LESS violent crime.

That does not follow; I did not say other countries with high per capita gun ownership had low homicide (much less crime) rates, I said those with extensive gun control had lowER rates than the US, despite high per capita gun ownership. Gun control does not prevent them having more guns than almost all other countries (surprise, surprise,) it just prevents those guns being used for murder (and suicide.)

You want those restrictions in the US, fine. Good luck. Change the Constitution FIRST.

Regulated is regulated; you, not I, are the one trying to remove that word from the Second Amendment.

For the sake of clarity, please note that I have NOT argued FOR unrestricted gun posession, just that restrictions were not Constitutional, and that most of the arguments used by people in favor of restrictions and bans are stupid.

You have not explicitly made that argument, no, but you have strongly implied it by stating ALL gun regulation is unconstitutional and your opposition to amending the Constitution to rectify your incorrect reading of it.
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