Re: OT: Isn\'t this ridiculous??
 

This kinda goes the route of 'weather'. You can talk about it, but there's not much you can do about it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

I guess there was no lesson learned from the 'prohibition' as illegal items will just move to another form of operation and will go on as usual. Nothing changes, except where you have to go, to buy what your looking for.

Re: OT: Isn\'t this ridiculous??
 

Yep, there's too much profit for the government in prohibition, so it's here to stay...

Re: OT: Isn\'t this ridiculous??
 

It's amazing to me that people still haven't learned that trying to outlaw and make impossible everything that seems "bad" on the surface is not only foolish and undesirable, but also IMPOSSIBLE.

Oh no! Someone can buy the ingredients for a black powder bomb!

Meanwhile, we get ads in our junk mail about sales on shotguns and as much ammo as we want from local chain stores. Or, if you think $100 of black powder is a threat, how tough do you think it is to buy $100 of gasoline?

Or, just steal a truck and go on a Carmageddon 4 rampage.

Shocked? Amazed? The TV news might pretend to be, for the sake of selling stories to FOOLS. I.e., the American viewing public.

The thing is, this has actually become a line that many Americans will buy. "Oh ya, that would be bad. No one would ever have imagined that someone would do X. It should be outlawed! Everyone going to a gas station should be strip-searched and their cigarette lighters and shoes confiscated to make us all safer!"