In response to:
Ammonium nitrate fertilizer purchases are now regulated.
You can't take a penknife on an airplane, let alone a box cutter.
Anybody acting up on an airplane these days will likely be pounded out by the other passengers.
There are now calls from the Left for gun control legislation in response to Adam Lanza's unconscionable mass killing of innocent children at Sandy Hook Elementary. However, very few people seem to be asking the most basic question of all before getting started: What gun control legislation could have stopped Adam Lanza?
The answer is "none."
Let's consider a few alternatives:
1) The school was already a "gun free zone;" so obviously that wasn't effective. Of course, the sort of people who would respect a "gun free zone" in the first place are the very ones you wouldn't have to worry...
Also,more than a couple of FEDGOV armed employees LEFT their loaded handguns on the plane,to be discovered by ODCs who notified flight attendants. Nobody lost their jobs over that,either,AFAIK. FEDGOV has over a dozen agencies with their own internal armed "police forces",ASIDE from FBI,US Marshals,and ATF.