Fertilizer Plant Blows Up In Texas

[onebadmollafolla]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/natio...o-texas/64337/

[AgentOblivious]

Remember workplace safety laws? Yeah, those pesky things....

[94stealthr/t]

I think we need to ban fertilizer.

[AgentOblivious]

I think we need to ban fertilizer.

Commercial fertilizer is highly controlled for this very reason...if the US federal government decided to put the same limits on firearms as it does on ammonium nitrate, there would be 2nd amendment infringement cries all over the states.

Heck, you guys accept greater control over your cars than your guns. Imagine if someone tried to legislate a requirement that you'd need a license that would require passing a test, just to operate a gun? Requiring that you register all your guns, and register when you sell them, and put license plates on them with numbers kept in a national system so they could track down the owner? Requiring that if you wanted to carry in public, that you have liability insurance just in case? Oh the horror! lol.

So no, don't pull that silly 'lets ban _____ too!' bs.

[VR-4 0wnz j00]

Commercial fertilizer is highly controlled for this very reason...if the US federal government decided to put the same limits on firearms as it does on ammonium nitrate, there would be 2nd amendment infringement cries all over the states.

Heck, you guys accept greater control over your cars than your guns. Imagine if someone tried to legislate a requirement that you'd need a license that would require passing a test, just to operate a gun? Requiring that you register all your guns, and register when you sell them, and put license plates on them with numbers kept in a national system so they could track down the owner? Requiring that if you wanted to carry in public, that you have liability insurance just in case? Oh the horror! lol.

So no, don't pull that silly 'lets ban _____ too!' bs.

Driving a car isn't a constitutional right but the right to bear arms is.

[NickS VR4]

Driving a car isn't a constitutional right but the right to bear arms is.

He's Canadian... mainly founded by the French...the biggest pansies around.

[j2k4]

Commercial fertilizer is highly controlled for this very reason...if the US federal government decided to put the same limits on firearms as it does on ammonium nitrate, there would be 2nd amendment infringement cries all over the states.

Heck, you guys accept greater control over your cars than your guns. Imagine if someone tried to legislate a requirement that you'd need a license that would require passing a test, just to operate a gun? Requiring that you register all your guns, and register when you sell them, and put license plates on them with numbers kept in a national system so they could track down the owner? Requiring that if you wanted to carry in public, that you have liability insurance just in case? Oh the horror! lol.

So no, don't pull that silly 'lets ban _____ too!' bs.

Hey Matt - never mind all that, give me a quick response, here:

I want to thank rlacasse for catching this, because I think it captures the nub of your misapprehension about our country, the one you pretend to know everything about.

We want you to get a job, period - we do not want to extend the option of welfare as a choice, which is how it seems you think things should work.

I want to ask you, point blank, Matt:

Of the panaply of choices an able-bodied person can make, do you actually think welfare should be on the menu?

A yes-or-no answer will be sufficient.

[IPD]

yikes. i was living in a city where a magnesium plant caught fire once. THAT was scary.

[UTRacerX9]

A lot of info on this is still sketchy, they are afraid that the main tank of fertilizer may also blow. (For perspective, it was only about $500 worth of fertilizer used in the Oklahoma City bombing, I can't even imagine how bad the damage would be if an entire plant supply blew up.)

[CoreyB]

Love your new sig pic Todd.