CW: suicide.

Anybody who argues that Amazon selling sodium nitrite is no different from selling rope should consider:

1. SN is a controlled substance by the FDA.
2. The FDA puts labeling requirements on all SN sellers.
3. Amazon does not comply w/ FDA labeling requirements
4. Amazon recommends that buyers of SN also buy scales, suicide books, and Tagamet (which lines the stomach so you can't vomit up the SN)
5. Amazon has removed 1-star reviews for SN and given it an inflated 4.5 star average review
6. Amazon has very rigid requirements for
product descriptions and photography, especially in this industrial and chemical category of product. Yet Amazon does not comply with its own requirements. (Amazon is a first party vendor of HiMedia, the brand that killed our client's son. Which means Amazon itself
and not the brand handles the product photography and description -- as well as the logistics, customer service, and shipping. )
7. Amazon knows that a malicious pro-suicide social media forum directs depressed and mentally ill people to its site to purchase SN for suicide.
Amazon has more data about our consumer habits than god and could easily determine if SN is a departure from a person's usual consumer behavior

8. Even the legitimate purpose of curing meats requires expertise and dilution of pure SN to prevent it from poisoning.
Properly dilluted curing salts (6% SN and 94% table salt) are widely available for purchase.

9. Amazon crops the SN product so that no warnings are visible on the package.
10. Amazon's description of SN contains no warnings.

11. Amazon overnight primes SN to people likely to be using it for suicide. Expert agree that suicidal ideation usually passes. But not so when a person is immersed in a sticky online community that glorifies and encourages
live-posting of suicide.

12. Amazon is likely the #1 vendor in the country of SN. But hides and conceals its data about SN purchase habits. Why hide the info if it's mostly just being used
by Joe Bob pig farmer to cure his hams?

13. There are thousands/millions of uses for a rope.
14. In suspension hanging, a person has time to change their mind and the body will naturally try to save itself when the air is cut off.
15. Amazon could, but refuses to contain info about the antidote of SN -- methylene blue.

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