Reply #91: I disagree on your assessment of difficulty.

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Explosives are incredibly easy to make. One need only take a quick search of the internet or even make a few buys from amazon.com to find any number of accurate and detailed guides to the creation and use of explosives. Indeed, one can get the base components for any number of explosive compounds from your local craft store and/or pharmacy, no questions asked.

To argue further, the Oklahoma City bombing was accomplished using a very simple explosive formula that was not only inexpensive to create, but just as easy and inexpensive to detonate.

Additionally, look up information on any number of teenagers that maim and kill themselves every year making simple pipe bombs.


As for your argument, that banning all guns would reduce the number of gun crimes. While that outcome is likely, I can't conceive of any way that such a law or regulation could be enforced in the United States as it stands. I'm told that there are nearly four guns to every one person in this country. I'm also aware that most 'gun nuts' hold thousands of rounds of ammunition. Nobody can tell you where these are, who owns them or how many they own.
That on it's own is a daunting task.

Consider that an entire occupying military force in Iraq still can't keep weapons out of insurgent hands, imagine trying to find and confiscate every firearm and ammunition cartridge in this country. Just the cost alone in manpower and money is staggering.

It's one of those ideas that sounds great until you look at the logistics of it. It's simply impossible to accomplish. That and consider how many otherwise innocent and good people would be thrown in prison or have their property taken from them in such an effort.