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The idiots in politics appear to be multiplying. IL has a new law that requires an ID and registration to buy drain cleaner.
The stupidity of these Illinois lawmakers is beyond comprehension. Why stop here? Why not register hammers, knives, baseball bats and garden shears. Do these idiots really not realize how stupid they are?
Maybe we need a new law that requires all politicians to be sterilized... then at least they will stop breeding.
Buying a bottle of Drano won’t be the same in Illinois beginning Sunday.
A new state law requires customers purchasing products containing sodium hydroxide, or lye, and other corrosive chemicals to show a legitimate photo ID and to write their name, address and date of birth. And the store clerk will log the time and date of purchase.
Intrusive? Illinois lawmakers said Friday they agree that regulating drain cleaners and other products is needed to protect the public from those who may use them to harm.
“The fact of the matter is there are evil people in the world who will abuse the most normal, everyday household products for sinister aims,” Illinois Rep. Rich Morthland, R-Cordova, said.
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Forget Yucca Mountain. The entire state of Illinois should be a toxic waste dump. Something certainly needs to be done to kill the rot that they call logic up there.
You have to show ID in TX (and in many other states) and have your information recorded to buy some types of cold medicines...it's for the same reason.
Either one of these two are the best explanation I've heard for this Nannying
Drano has nothing to do with meth, LOL they are used in explosives, if you put liquid drano in a plastic pop bottle and drop some aluminum foil balls in and screw on the cap the reaction takes about 30 seconds for it to build enough pressure for the bottle to explode. We made these 20 yrs ago down here in the sticks when we learned about it in a chemistry class at school. LOL It was good clean fun! but now kids are idiots and they tear crap up with them like blowing up mailboxes and what not. They ruined it for everyone. Next thing you know they will make potato guns illegal!
Or this one...
The Drano law was prompted by two people getting acid thrown in their faces in Chicago sometime over the last year or two. It's a knee jerk reaction to an isolated incident that will have no effect on the repetition of that type of incident.
As was pointed out, if someone wants to use acid for something, the acid from a car battery is much more caustic than most drain cleaners. If someone really wants drain cleaner, they'll just get it from under Momma's sink.
IL has a bad habit of regulating THINGS as a way to control actions of people rather than control those actions that are not appropriate. You want drain cleaner to clean your drain?? Have at it. Throw it in somebody's face in a hissy fit?? Live with Bubba and his buddies in Menard for about 10 years. No early release, no parole, no good time.
Start really punishing criminals, and the activity will begin to decrease.
Drano has nothing to do with meth, LOL they are used in explosives, if you put liquid drano in a plastic pop bottle and drop some aluminum foil balls in and screw on the cap the reaction takes about 30 seconds for it to build enough pressure for the bottle to explode. We made these 20 yrs ago down here in the sticks when we learned about it in a chemistry class at school. LOL It was good clean fun! but now kids are idiots and they tear crap up with them like blowing up mailboxes and what not. They ruined it for everyone. Next thing you know they will make potato guns illegal!
It can be used to make meth. I just read the article posted by the OP. Apparently, the law is partly because of meth and partly because of people using these products to assault other people by burning them.
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