Ah, the scent of the moral high ground!

[theweaselking]

Christians launch improvised chemical weapon attack on adult bookstore by rigging a heavily caustic substance to be rendered aerosol and fed through the air conditioning.

By Florida law, this is a "weapon of mass destruction", and the police have correctly noted that this is an attempt to damage and kill those who disagree with you and to change their minds through fear: a terrorist act.

Comments about how "the religion of peace strikes again" and suggesting that an appropriate response to this is to invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them all forcibly to Hinduism will be met with amusement.

Comments

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Why does it not surprise me that this is in Florida?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Because Florida is a swamp that gets hit with hurricanes for six months of the year, and so all the sane people have moved away leaving only Floridians and tourists?

I'm not show how that explains Ohio, though, which is a close runner-up to Loose Mental Patient Capital Of The Universe.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I disagree with the weapon of mass destruction categorization. A weapon of mass destruction kills cities. Other than that, yeah.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The WMD characterisation comes from the fact that the law considers all NBC attacks to be identical. This stems from the US government's position that since they "don't have" chemical or biological weapons, they consider all of them to be nukes, and consider a chemical or biological attack to be equivalent and equally deserving of response as a nuclear one.

[aimisdirty.livejournal.com]

I think it is in reference to the type, not the scale. A caplet of VX or Sarin that kills all living creatures in a house is still a weapon of mass destruction.

And the weapon described definitely falls into the CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) category.

I like the idea of them locking the people behind this up for the rest of their natural lives.