"StallFearer" wrote in message
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I threw away my .45 and bought a pack of tweezers for protection in my
home. ;-)

The one I love is when the media report that someone is keeping "bomb-making
materials" in their home. Looking around my house I have:

wire
wire cutters
aluminum foil
ceramic bowls
iron filings
cinnamon
potassium permanganate
potassium nitrate
gasoline
oil
brake fluid
glycerin
ice
sugar
batteries
clocks
cellular phones
laptop computers
portable radios
smokeless powder
other ammunition
pool/spa chlorine
old newspapers
alcohol
urea
fertilizer
laundry detergent
propane
paraffin
sawdust
a bundle of fuse cord (for a toy black powder cannon I once had)
string

Of course, my 73 year old mother also has most of this stuff, plus
nitroglycerin. In fact, she is likely to set off bomb sniffers just walking
(well, riding her scooter) through an airport.

I'm probably missing a lot of other really obvious stuff, but then I am not
interested in making bombs, either. I think every reporter who writes an
article saying that somebody was keeping bomb-making material in his house
should be forced to do a complete inventory of the bomb-making materials
that the reporter keeps in his own house. That goes for idiot law
enforcement officers who continue to perpetuate this, too.