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Polonium-210 Available Through Mail Order
Knutsi writes "InformationWeek is reporting that Polonium 210, the radioactive material used to poison former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is not as hard to get your hands on as some have previously stated. American family business United Nuclear is actually selling the stuff, and other equally exotic materials, on their company website. Could come in handy for the xmas shopping season."
Gun control doesn't mean you can't keep a loading gun at home to defend yourself and your family. It simply means that in order to have a gun you need to have it and yourself licensed.
This is the first time I've ever seen this. Wake me when gun-control advocates actually try to pass a law against the lines you allege here.
All gun control is advocating is that guns go to people who know how to use them and are not likely to abuse them. How does this prevent you from protecting your family?
Maybe that's what you advocate, but that's certainly not what gun-control laws advocated by gun-control advocates aim for. Instead of attempting to limit who gets guns (which is already done in the US for handguns), they try to ban various weapons and features of weapons, like magazines with too many rounds, bayonet lugs (?!?!), and other silliness.
That is a silly argument. First, just because the Nazis did something doesn't mean we shouldn't. They had plenty of policies that I do not agree with and several that outright offend me, but that doesn't mean that everything they did was wrong.
Most things they did were pretty wrong. Their use of gun control had very sensible purposes. To reduce violent crime? Nope. To prevent certain ethnic groups from violently opposing the government when it tried to take them to the gas chamber? Yep! Gun control is workable if the government isn't oppressing you, but can be a real killer when it does.