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Comment by mikkupikku

1 day ago

We used to until quite recently. Anybody could buy dynamite at the hardware store. We had to end this because of criminals using it to hurt people.

I admit I was surprised to see you could buy dynamite in a hardware store until 1970.

Except this time the criminals are police.

  • They are far more often than anyone wants to admit. That's how we got 25% of the world's prison population.

    • AFAIK the actual cause for our high incarceration rate is that we have longer sentences. The conviction rate, for example, as compared to the UK is similar.