Your second amendment rights are getting in the way of our rights.

[Marr]

285. You keep talking like no one understands that.

I think most people realize that explosives can be made from simple ingredients. You aren't lighting up the world with your annotated Anarchist's Cookbook here-- I'm sorry.

It's a matter of convenience. People use guns to kill because it's easy. How many fertilizer bomb massacres can you point to in the last 20 years? How many gun massacres? Why do you suppose that is? I mean, the last fertilizer bomb we saw here did a lot more damage than the last gun massacre, as you pointed out, but the loons still opt for the gun route. Why? Because it's exponentially easier.

We can't do away with fertilizer or pipes or saltpeter or gasoline, because they kind of have other essential functions. We can restrict access to ready-made explosives, and do. If you can acknowledge that the sale of powerful explosives should be strictly controlled, you can't very well argue that the sale of guns should not. Yes, people can still build explosives. They could build a gatling gun, too-- if they had the materials and knowledge. But it's not nearly as easy.