It works well enough to be the only legal way of dealing with them in most of EU, and the consequences of mishandling are no doubt more severe with high explosive than simply “can cause underground fire”.

"Works well" may also depend on the species and sizes of the trees in an area as well as the soil composition.

Uh, the EU has plenty of bans of very useful things. I know of at least one 500+ acre wildfire in California that was caused by burning roots.

As to how much it matters or not? No clue.

And a whole slew of common chemicals used in harmless synthesis, and in many countries even things like common knives.

> And a whole slew of common chemicals used in harmless synthesis

The US also regulate chemicals, and knives are free to sell everywhere, it's just forbidden to be carried in public.

> You can buy this knife, but you can't carry it home.

How can otherwise reasonable people come to believe nonsense like this just because it fits their worldviews will always remain a mystery for me.

Not in the EU anymore, but this was a consistent issue in the UK - at least in London with kitchen knives.

Of course you can carry it home…

Iv got a photo from an unnamed image board.

The dude showed of this EU compliant collection.

Multiple pistols and rifles, and what some state would classify as weapons of war, an SBR, or a assault weapon.

All obtained legally via permits and a local cop signing off on the paperwork.

Yeah, they have a different system. In broad outline, there are classes of weapons (generally four -- classes A, B, C and D -- with subclasses within them) and then courses and certificates required for each class of weapon. For example, an AR-15 might be class C2 -- so it does requires a lot of course work -- but usually it's not banned.

It's actually interesting to met that, in the American discourse, we never discourse an EU-style classification system. Whenever people in the US propose new gun regulation, it always a maximalist approach -- banning the AR-15 completely.

Not true - various states have banned (and currently do ban) all sorts of variants/classifications, the Fed gov’t has several classifications, etc.

I'm not aware of any US states that have a graded A, B, C, D system with courses and qualifications -- instead, they just ban everything that might be in a European B or C classification. This is how the old federal AWB worked, as well -- it didn't say, you can purchase an AR-15 if you take certain classes, it said you just can't buy it at all.

The European system, broadly speaking, is not like that.

There are federal classes for dealers and manufacturers -- manufacturers of silencers, of automatic weapons, of missiles and rockets, &c, and dealers of these articles -- but that also is not like the European classification system I am talking about, which is for end users.

The NFA, which does apply special regulation to silencers, short-barreled rifles and some other items, which allows them to be owned by end users, and that is kind of similar but there is a real difference: you file for a tax stamp and wait for a background check to complete, without having to worry about taking a particular course and getting a certain grade.

> Like speech

Speech, in both the EU and the US is free under the limits set by law, the US isn't an “absolute free speech land”, you will definitely be jailed for speech that goes against the law (for instance death threats, see [1]).

> equity compensation...

What are you talking about, I've been given equity more than once…

[1]: https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/florida-mom-arrested-f...

Are you familiar with Centralia?

...sure, maybe don't use this technique if you live on top of a large amount of abandoned coal mines.