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To: bentway who wrote (797426)	7/27/2014 8:08:48 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1579898

I'd rather have had a flamethrower.

To: bentway who wrote (797426)

8/10/2014 2:35:35 AM

From: Bilow

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Hi bentway; Re: "When I was a kid, I'd have LOVED someone giving me a hand grenade!";

By "grenade" I presume they mean "improvised explosive devices". Most US IEDs are made by kids. Worldwide, American citizens are #6 for making IEDs:

The government official who provided details of his agency’s count of IED attacks in the United States said there’d been 31 in March, 23 in February and 31 in January, though none as deadly or as high-profile as what occurred in Boston. According to the official, Afghanistan suffered far more IED attacks than any other nation but the United States had more such attacks than Israel, Somalia or Yemen. In fact, the United States trailed only Afghanistan, Colombia, Pakistan, India and Syria in the sheer number of IEDs over the past six months.
mcclatchydc.com

Explosive Incidents in the US

2013: 5909 incidents (known!), 390 injuries (reported!) and 31 fatalities
2012: 5815 incidents, 159 injuries, 21 fatalities
...

atf.gov

The actual number of incidents is probably 5x or 10x larger than what's listed above. Injuries considerably larger but the fatalities are hard to ignore and are probably reported correctly. Most incidents are never reported as they happen out in the middle of nowhere and nothing of importance is damaged.

Perhaps the reason a lot of Americans are unaware of the incredible amount of amateur bomb manufacturing in the US is because it's mostly done by bored rural kids. If you read rural newspapers you'll see the injury and fatality reports; but most of the incidents are never reported. The reason they're not reported is that it's a crime and the perpetrators hide from the authorities. The reported incidents versus what actually happens is like the comparison between illegal drug use and what gets reported to the authorities.

-- Carl

P.S. Wanna talk about who's preparing for the coming civil war? Too bad your side is walking into it completely unprepared, LOL.