Something I Have Never Thought Of:

From Sivacracy via Altercation:

While everyone is getting all worked up about the abandoned Al Qaeda plot to release chemical weapons in the New York City subway system, this might be a good time to remind ourselves that there is a very good reason that terrorists prefer guns, bombs, and fuel-filled airplanes to chemical weapons: they rarely work and the never work well. Chemical and biological weapons have killed maybe dozens of people in the past 10 years. While bombs and guns have killed millions. Bombs and guns are cheap and easy to get. They are easy to hide. They kill very efficiently and effectively. And they terrify just fine, thank you. Let's get something clear here, chemical weapons are in fact "weapons of minor destruction." To group them in with nuclear or even conventional weapons as a real threat to crowds of people is just plain dishonest. At best, it's overly influenced by science fiction.