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echo: askacop
to: TOM RIGHTMER
from: RD THOMPSON
date: 1998-01-23 17:26:00
subject: Censorship

Hi Tom, as you were just saying about Censorship....
TR>  RT> Who makes that distinction?  You?  Me?   How about the farm boy who
TR>  RT> learns from his father how to blow stumps with ANFO?  The only
TR>  RT> difference between a stump and OKC is the amount.
TR> 
TR> Good point. Any attempted solution would involve many tough
TR> questions. I'm not a farmer, so I don't know much about fertilizer
TR> or the quantities involved in farming. My first thoughts would be
TR> from a dumb city boy's perspective, could we require identification
TR> and a record of certain large purchases? 
I don't know.  I personally knew how to make a form of gunpowder out
of sulpher, charcoal and saltpeter when I was about nine or ten.  I was
not a farm boy either.  ID of large purchases would only make a lot of
small ones the methology.  I believe that the best deterrant is to put
violators away via a speedy trial and for a long, long time.  This is
the type of crime that should carry mandatory prison time rather than
marijuana and, no, I don't want to open that can of worms again.  :^)
RD 
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