lcdpublishing wrote:
> Are you guys serious about not being able to buy Acetone and other
> such solvents?
Yep.
Officially you're not 'supposed' to sell Isopropyl Alcohol in the UK as it's
used for drug production (not sure which drug, and I don't really care
either). Thankfully Maplin and Farnell are still stocking it. Once again, the
'keep it off the high street' law has no real effect and if they banned the
stuff outright they'd annoy pretty much every industrial manufacturer and
printing shop in the country.
> If so, what the heck is the goverment trying to prevent?
With IPA? Drugs manufacture. Acetone? People making TATP bombs.
> Creating "Feel good" laws which solve nothing
Go read 'Beyond Fear' by Bruce Schneier. It's a great book that covers why
these laws are created, and why they don't work.
> Making it illegal to buy "Stuff" to do illegal things. Isn't what
> the new law doing is to prevent something from illegal happening?
All the Terrorism Act does is allow the police to do an unwarranted
stop-and-search ∗and∗ add it to your criminal record, even if they find nothing.
> For some reason, I just can't believe that someone who is willing to
> strap bombs on themselves and is willing to blow themselves up in
> the name of (insert cause here) is actually going to be detered by
> breaking a law that limits the sale of some such product. If these
> people have no value for life, including their own, breaking a
> simple law sure as heck isn't a deterant!
Too true...
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