Get back to us with your new evaluation AFTER some home-grown Islamic terrorist blows YOUR leg off or fills YOUR abdomen with shrapnel from a "quaint pipe bomb".
I had a friend who had a pretty good slice on his neck made by a ChiCom grenade (a "quaint tin can bomb" filled with water buffalo dung & diesel fuel). And that happened AFTER he had managed to kick it into the grenade sump in his foxhole, which absorbed most of the explosion.
Don't poo-poo caveman kids with quaint weapons. As I was told in 1968, "a 6 year old kid with a frag will kill you just as quickly and just a dead as an NVA colonel."
Don't lose your cool over my comment. Me and my friends made pipe bombs as kids. My meaning is that our enemies have far more sophisticated and deadlier ways to hurt us in larger numbers than to do pin-prick attacks. I could easily name off a dozen ways, but when mentioned in the past my posts have been removed because they're realistic and horrific, and we're not supposed to give them ideas. They could easily wipe out thousands of us in simple ways. A pipe bomb will unfortunately hurt a few people, but that is only a few people. A crossbow would be equivalent. When these terrorists do something, it won't be by using some primitive pipe bombs.