As this article points out, the terrorists have won.

For those who simply don’t have time, a summation of the article:

The government is now outlawing the purchase of basic chemicals and chemistry equipment without a permit. In Texas you don’t need to register your handgun (I agree with that) but you do need to register your chemistry glassware.

No joke.

Also, it has been decided that various children’s chemistry kits can no longer contain basic elements like sulphur because some boogyman somewhere might do something bad with it. So, instead the chemicals are replaced by rubber balls and suggestions of experiments you can do with them instead. Like learning physics will somehow replace the missing chemistry knowledge.

This is insane. How are kids supposed to learn this stuff? I knew more about basic chemistry than my classmates in 9th grade precisely because I was able to buy chemistry kits with real chemicals in them. And please don’t tell me they’ll learn it in school – the schools are worse now than when I was a kid, and they were a pathetic joke then.

For the first time in my life I am seriously contemplating voting democrat just to try to get the republicans into a stalemate solution. This sort of nonsense is what I expected out of the democrats – nanny-state nonsense about “someone might get hurt”. Maybe if we vote in some gridlock we can slow them down.

Sidenote:

I just put in an order for some sulphur from United Nuclear, a company that was raided and held at gunpoint because they have the temerity to sell chemicals. See their page on what you can do to help – if they lose, chemistry sets will essentially be illegal in the USA.