On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:18:10 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 6/30/18 9:00 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

At a certain point I think we have squeezed the gun issue about as
hard as we can. It is time to start trying to just stop the crazy
people who think it is OK to kill a bunch of innocent victims.
I have said many times, guns are for lazy people but it is far from
the only deadly thing out there. Some can be even more devastating.
There are plenty of industrial gasses that are totally unregulated and
have the ability to really do some damage.
How many people would recognize the smell of acetylene and know to run
like hell if they smelled it coming out of the vents in a building?



I guess this is what is called today as "having a conversation".

Nothing is really accomplished but points of view are identified.

Fretwell's point on industrial gases is...absurd.

A couple years ago if I said fireworks and pressure cookers you would
have said that was absurd too. Boston has a different opinion.
I really don't want to be the one who gives anyone any ideas but have
you ever filled a balloon with oxy/acetylene and lit it?
One the size of a bowling ball will be about like an old time M-80 and
if you filled a building ... no more building. It would make your
regular methane explosion (nat gas) look like a firecracker.
People would recognize a gas leak because we are trained to know that
artificially introduced scent.
Acetylene might just get a "is that your after shave"?
These things are always absurd until they happen.
You can just look at Maryland. You have an assault weapons ban, so the
guy used a shotgun. If you have a shotgun ban they will use something
else.
If we are more interested in gun control instead of nut control we are
setting ourselves up for another "absurd" attack.