Issy, I applaud your good intentions, BUT I fear removing all and any, such weapons, like thermite, will only make the 'nut jobs' more focused and determined to succeed at their chosen field and manner of mayhem and destruction.
I would rather find a better way of identifying the 'nut jobs', but that ain't gonna happen.
Don't forget that you can make explosives out of materials readily available from your supermarket even.
I am reminded of the substance 'anfo', used as explosives in the mining industry.
From memory it was a derivative of 'super phosphate', therefore easily available, 'off the shelf', then add diesel and a detonator, and there you have it.
Many years ago I resigned myself to the fact that we can never protect ourselves from bad people, because if they are intent on doing bad, they will put all their energies and resources into achieving that goal.
We can only hope that we are not in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Altrav,

My good intentions were tongue in cheek.

Thermite burns at around 2500 degrees Celsius, is virtually impossible to extinguish and is made from such common materials as to be impossible to ban.

Among those things that burn intensely are petrol and diesel fuels, so luck with banning or restricting them, and they are all over the country many millions of gallons of them.

'Runner,
Can you provide a link for the quote from Imram Tawidi?

Hi Henry L

as you might know Iman Tawidi is a brave muslim from Adelaide whose life has been threatened by those following the teachings of Mohammed for exposing truth. He posted the quote on facebook quoting who he thought was the main suspect. It hit my facebook page. I will try and track it down. As you might know facebook is often quite political and pull down posts that don't fit the leftist agenda.

Hey HenryL

"It could be useful in the future, as we have to show that Islam has no intention of integrating with others."

They aren't the only ones.
Islam is the one that makes all the noise;
But there's another one quietly causing just as much trouble;
And who also have no intention of integrating with anyone else either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egtsc-Gz35o&t=2414s&bpctr=1556106183

Notre Dame Ablaze: Israeli Rabbi Says Jews Obligated to Burn Down Churches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iACqKq9QFbg

Here's a question for you
Why does Benjamin Netanyahu tell other nations leaders to include Anti-Zionism as a form of Anti-Semitism?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12203054

Answer - Because it's in the Talmud, and part of the Noahide Laws.

There isn't just one group with dangerous beliefs we need to be careful of...

There isn't just one group with dangerous beliefs we need to be careful of...
Armchair Critic,
Correct but that doesn't vindicate the largest of those groups !

AC,

Proddies aren't too keen on integrating with Catholics either.

Hindus aren't too keen on integrating with Christians.

Buddhists aren't too keen on integrating with Hindus, Muslims, Catholics OR Proddies. And obviously vice versa.

So they all could have burnt Notre Dame down, since, after all, suspicions about a group may lead to finding something that could be used conceivably as evidence, and therefore the entire group is to blame for some crime like this.

Keep letting us know your true thoughts and what foundations they are based on :) It was Hitler's birthday last week, AC - he's now 130, and somewhere in the South American jungle.

Joe