Yeah, the good old days. The kids should get off your lawn.
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Thatās actually a good idea.
They may take all the other scaredy cats and go to their own padded island where there are no sharp corners, no dangerous chemicals, and nothing else thatās even rudimentary fearful.
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America is, as I have noted several times in the past, well on its way to becoming the first Nerf Civilization, where life itself is carefully and lovingly padded to protect us all against boo-boos from the nursery to the grave.
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I really wish more people understood this.
If you happen to find such a magic wand, however, please donāt hesitate to use it.
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Hailing from the brave European Union which is on fast track to the same āsafeā nightmare.
Maybe Grandma would like to be eaten out once in a while.
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Well, gunās rights enthusiasts are known for threatening the lives of not just people engaged in promoting gun control but also any researcher simply studying the dynamics of gun violence. It may not bolster their cause on a logical or moral level, but it certainly works in their favor by making people too scared to continue what they were doing. (Itās apparently one of the reasons why researchers are so unwilling to study the issue in the US.)
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sighā¦ a friend of mine who was drunk blew his brains out with a shotgun. a second friend killed his dad and his dads wife. my grandfather came within a hair of pulling the trigger on his rifle pointed at my grandmother (he was involuntarily committed for a couple weeks after that, and was never the same).
and while not directly rifle related, i had to take away someones bottle of xanax yesterday morning (yes, yesterday) to help walk them back from the edge.
itās not about being a Nerf society, itās about not being a deliberately self destructing one. having a discussion about gun ownership isnāt a nightmare, cleaning up brain is.
ETA
almost forgot, the room i am sitting in right now was the scene of a murder suicide (domestic violence) in 2006. easier to outrun a person than a bullet.
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Here, the Infallible Government made some new public health laws, forgot to make exception for education, used an ordinance instead, and the result now is that chemistry students could not touch even a humble acid before they are 18 years old.
The trade schools, including my high school, are appealing. Because this is total bullshit. The industry is protesting as well, as the students couldnāt touch the ābad thingsā even during internships. (I got to the microwave catalysis research guy. Oh the memoriesā¦)
I handled concentrated acids at elementary school, in the chemistry āclubā, but that was before the Revolution, when we were under the Oppresive Shackles of Communism.
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All banned things that, while dangerous, serve other functions besides killing people. So, not like guns at all, then.
EDIT: And even then, I see very few people talking about outright banning guns, either. Itās not quite a strawman argument because they ARE around, but theyāre definitely on the fringe of the debate.
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Iāll serve notice to any gun fondlers who threaten anyone: Iāll blow you to smithereens with my banana bomb! Watch out, asswipes, I have the trump card.
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You are bad, but oh so finger lickinā good, Ducky.
Crap, you beat me to it!!! 
Nice work. I like it. Especially the yellow anodization, if thatās what it is. Could just be paint. But looks cool.
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Good eye!!!
Just look at it
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This isnāt true at all, by your other comments you know this. These very real neurotic responses to perceived danger you mention donāt actually make anybody safer. But they feel like action; Something must be done, I have done something, something has been done. But this is only because the real changes are too hard, like blocked by the second amendment hard. And donāt forget, its too easy to believe youāre the lone voice of reason in this chaotic crazy debate. Which reminds me of a joke:
As a man was driving down the freeway, his phone rang. Answering, he heard his wifeās voice urgently warning him, āHerman, I just heard on the news that thereās a car going the wrong way on 280. Please be careful!ā
āHell,ā said Herman, āItās not just one car. Itās hundreds of them!ā
Donāt try to read too much into that, itās just a joke.
āsafeā, thatās the right word and the right way to use it. and also the thing not to lose sight of.
Every meaningless thing thatās done in the name of safety is done because the changes that would make a real difference cannot happen for political reasons. Doing the only politically viable thing that can be done very often leads nowhere.
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H2O2? Copenhagen Suborbitals processes* the commercially available concentrations to the rocket-grade Real Thing.
Blog article about the large scale production, video of the pilot plant.
*) or better, processed. I think they donāt use hydrogen peroxide for newer rocket designs anymore
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Iām not entirely sure how serious this conversation is, but re: asbestos, there are still about 10,000 Americans dying a year from asbestos related causes. At a statistical value of human life around $6M, thatās $60B in human life loss per year alone. Do you want to pay your fair share of that externality to use your asbestos? Thatās not a fair calculation (the asbestos people are dying from is largely asbestos exposure in the 80s and my understanding is that in America asbestos isnāt even banned, though it is banned for use in construction) but when you talk about alternatives to things you want being āexpensiveā Iām pretty sure that expense doesnāt include the cost of cleaning up pollution and lost lives. Maybe instead of a ban regulators should put on a tax that covers those costs to reflect the true price of using poisonous substances, but I canāt get behind the idea that we should just call the tragedy of the commons par for the course, especially when the commons is other peopleās lives.
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Yeah, I would put asbestos in the category with, for example, the vials of extremely dangerous diseases kept at places like the CDC so that they can be studied. There should be an exception for scientists/researchers, but not in the general domain, thankyouverymuch.
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