you had it the wrong way around:
No because an estes type model rocket couldn't carry much mass to any useful height. you several magnitudes larger to carry even a hand-grenade (think bazookas- way bigger than an estes. range: several hundred meters).
Yes because it's people with guns that kill people. Countries that have an ingrained gun culture (and lots of guns) have higher death rates. for many reasons obviously murder is number one. then there's manslaughter where the gun was intended only as a threat but it all went wrong. also accidental plays a large part. it varies from year to year but last i heard the US were loosing about THIRTY THOUSAND people a year to gun related violence (9/11 was nothing). granted if you want to kill someone you will but your resolve will have to be much stronger. whens the last time you heard of someone accidentally strangling someone (sorry, we were arguing and my hands just 'went off'). or a drive-by stabbing?
P.S: should you want to make your own rocket all you need is potassium nitrate (fertiliser from a hardware store) and sugar. you can buy 25KG for about $30 australian. that'll make you a big enough rocket:-) that is until they ban fertiliser.....
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and sugar ;-)
you had it the wrong way around: No because an estes type model rocket couldn't carry much mass to any useful height. you several magnitudes larger to carry even a hand-grenade (think bazookas- way bigger than an estes. range: several hundred meters). Yes because it's people with guns that kill people. Countries that have an ingrained gun culture (and lots of guns) have higher death rates. for many reasons obviously murder is number one. then there's manslaughter where the gun was intended only as a threat but it all went wrong. also accidental plays a large part. it varies from year to year but last i heard the US were loosing about THIRTY THOUSAND people a year to gun related violence (9/11 was nothing). granted if you want to kill someone you will but your resolve will have to be much stronger. whens the last time you heard of someone accidentally strangling someone (sorry, we were arguing and my hands just 'went off'). or a drive-by stabbing? P.S: should you want to make your own rocket all you need is potassium nitrate (fertiliser from a hardware store) and sugar. you can buy 25KG for about $30 australian. that'll make you a big enough rocket :-) that is until they ban fertiliser.....