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Ok so... i'm often seriously confused about what safety people actually care about.
I understand fear of handguns a handgun is an easy to procure object in a hurry that allows someone to commit a crime suddenly and violently.
But it seems any type of premediatated or planned operation is just super legal and easy to get? (except of course using it to commit a crime is obviously very illegal)
Nitromethane is freely available for purchase, which can be easily made into very dangerous chemicals using stuff you can buy in the hardware store. From there we have other things, while you have to either break the law or DIY it for a lot of parts you can make your own drone (or just use a kids RC helicopter toy, seriously it may not work for heavy payloads but you'd be shocked at how far you can go with mediocre toys these days.) and drop an explosive on anyone. You can also make actual war crimes in your basement by mixing iron powder, and sulfur then heating it, sealing it in a glass bottle with water as it builds up H2S. Alternatively if you want to make cyanide gas, buying sodium cyanide (i'd be willing to post links but I don't want this forum to actually get in trouble with the FBI, I already got searched once) and mixing it with sulfiric acid is doable (and ok like hyper dangerous beyond belief and you would have to basically get rid of it the moment you make it but....)
Again the delivery mechanisms for this stuff isn't complicated and the main limiting factor of these does not appear to be that obtaining the means of violence is hard it's that anyone smart enough to do this is also smart enough to realize that violence is a bad idea.
Nobody does that. /thread
Seriously, I don't understand how you think this is a dunk on the hypothetical person you're mad at. Your argument actually makes the safety standards seem very reasonable: they restrict only those tools of crime that are actually commonly used to commit crimes, and not those that are not commonly used to commit crimes even though they could be. The restrictions target the minimum reduction of liberty necessary to secure a large reduction in crime.
Would that be the case, but safety people seem to end either end up fixated on very specific, relatively rare crimes (see magazine limits, long guns/assault weapons vs. hand guns), aesthetics (assault weapons) or narratives (suppressors, 3d printed guns) with a limited sense of balance. To the OP, folks using any of those alternates are more likely to kill themselves then anyone else. The low hanging fruit is a pressure cooker and some fireworks (see the Boston Marathon bombing) which any idiot could acquire.
This seems to be specific to the US. In Europe, most people are just not allowed to own guns, with very few exceptions (e.g. hunting, security, sport shooting), and of the exceptions most are not allowed to carry in public.
The 3d printed guns thing is a stupid moral panic, the correct point to consider legislation would be if murdered with printed weapons become common. Assault weapon bans, magazine limits and so all target mass shootings, which are simply the flashiest events of gun violence. I don't think that this is entirely unreasonable. The median victim of gun violence is probably some gang member, and the public does not care very much about them. By contrast, they care a lot about school shootings, and banning AR-15s (which some cops find too scary to face) or large magazines (which allow attackers to shoot more people without becoming vulnerable while reloading) can help lower the casualties there.
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