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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember when the Repukes blocked chem. signatures on explosives?
So they could track the use of explosives in attacks like today's.
Their priorities sicken me.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and never saying anything that can be done when it could have been done had they not said it can't be done.
They can never let anything move forward.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)power by sitting at home or voting stupid. God, will we need Independents in 2014. Indies came through in 2014, I hope they stay the course.
GoCubsGo
(32,073 posts)I can still hear Bill Clinton pushing for them, and the repugs saying "No!"
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Nothing about that has been officially announced or reported in the news AFAIK.
edhopper
(33,467 posts)tracing the explosives to the source might come in useful.
But they can't because of the GOP.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)it may not be a commercial explosive.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)We are not required to provide documented sources for every fucking word we type here.
You, too, need to rethink your presence here if people discussing events, speculating, and stating opinions offends you so goddamned much.
DU IS A DISCUSSION BOARD, not a news media website.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Archae
(46,299 posts)He told me the things they wanted to add to gunpowder to track explosives would have acted as useless filler.
Thus making powder less effective.
edhopper
(33,467 posts)bullshit.
Archae
(46,299 posts)Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)make my blood boil, make my stomach churn. But then I have to take a deep breadth and tell myself, "Yes, human nature accounts for the, not-so-aware-or-keen people. But that's all the more reason, not to keep quiet".
We have to hold this, straight from hell congress, accountable for just this sort of thing they voted, no on again. And again, lives are lost because of their decisions. And the criminals know full-well that those decisions will make it easier to get away with their acts of terror.