Just to be clear here, the peroxide used in hair dye and swimming pools, is NOT hydrogen peroxide.

They are two different things.

Your Headline is wrong. I changed it for you.

thank you. One of these days I'll fully read the article :)

I wouldn't be surprised if they expanded the reporting requirements since Zazi did buy up hydrogen peroxide as well.

It certainly is Hydrogen Peroxide that is the chemical used by this terror suspect. The same hydrogen peroxide used in hair dyes.

No, it is not. You do not use Hydrogen Peroxide to bleach your hair, or in your pool.

I don't think we should be allowed to buy water without going to the counter...I mean really, people who make bombs need water to survive, so if we could just ask everyone when they buy water if they planned on making a bomb or committing any crimes really, and they have to tell us cause they are coming to the counter to buy the water.

Oh wait that's just retarded....

Maybe you should call your stylists, then re-edit. :)

Quote from article:
"Surveillance videos showed Zazi purchased dozens of bottles of low strength hydrogen peroxide used to dye hair at various Denver area beauty supply stores and then prosecutors say he went to a nearby hotel where he experimented with cooking the chemicals on a stovetop."

It is a matter of dilution levels.

Hydrogen peroxide as used for wound cleaning, and a slew of other uses is about a 3% solution.

The peroxide used in hair dye can be as low as 3% but most is much higher in percentage.

The 3% can be used in a pinch but you need more of it and you have to work harder at increasing the potency

I read the article.
Go ahead, pour your hydrogen peroxide on your hair. It won't bleach it out, that is a different kind of peroxide.

It's the same, just a different strength, as mentioned above. This terror suspect was using hydrogen peroxide purchased from a beauty supply store to make a bomb.

http://www.wikihow.com/Bleach-Your-Hair-With-Hydrogen-Peroxide

Yeah, we've been through that above.

Apparently it is all about strength.

Yep. And the pool sanitizer is up around 35% (but it's still H2O2). All the peroxides mentioned are H2O2.

I had a roommate in college who bleached his mohawk with it all the time :P

So in other words... We're still allowed to do everything we always have done, but if someone wants to buy 40 gallons of Hydrogen peroxide from the local pool supply store, they'll need to show I.D.

You know, I think i'm ok with that. Just as I'm ok with the idea that if I want to buy Sudafed-D I need to show I.D. but if I want to buy 10 boxes of it, I'll need to show my I.D. and the police will most likely investigate.

Just like if I want to buy a rifle, all I do it show my I.D. and maybe wait a few days. If I want to buy 20 rifles and 200 bullets, the government is going to check on why.

There is really no rights being violated here.

In one hour I can walk you through a grocery store and we can build a bomb that would level our house.

So. Time to start regulating everything.

Should we also put an ID-required flag on Mentos & Diet Coke?

I don't feel safe in a world where anyone can buy as much vinegar and baking soda as they want. We need to start a registry and watch them closely.

This isn't the fix, take this away and then what next? Our dry ice? Our toilet cleaners? Might as well just start putting everything on a list to be checked at the register and locking it up, except for safety scissors, butter knives, and water....Oh wait! I'm sure someone could find a way to hurt someone else with all these if they really wanted to. Something somewhere can and will always be able to be used destructively by someone.

Macgyver should have to show his id to buy toothpaste and paperclips.