Well, I've made some progress.

[conuly]

Some of the clothes may be an utter loss, though.

Any advice?

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Comments

[ancarett]

Iron the clothes between sheets of waxed paper. This allows the crayon to melt again and migrate to the warm waxed paper. Good luck!

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Most of the time I bite my tongue, so to speak, but not this time.

enact laws that will reduce gun violence and save lives

So how's that working out in Chicago? (I'll summarize: Strictest gun laws in the nation. Blood in the streets.)

I like your writing, but I do get tired of the kneejerk GUNS BAD sometimes. As a responsible gun owner, it chafes.

[vanessagalore.livejournal.com]

I've had some success getting colored ink out of clothes by treating them with hand sanitizer. Maybe try that (in hot water)? I was very dubious but it really worked.

[dandelion.livejournal.com]

I'll second that I've heard this works (though will admit I haven't tried it myself).

[conuly]

Bet rubbing alcohol would work as well, though not sure what it does to crayon wax.

[conuly]

And after all that I forgot the URL, too. Didn't we have this exact conversation once? I don't think we'll see eye to eye on it.

[dandelion.livejournal.com]

I'd be concerned that you would liberate the dye out of the wax and into the clothes without dissolving the wax - I'm not sure non-polar wax would dissolve in polar alcohol.

[(Anonymous)]

Considering I'm a member of SAF, www.1mmagc.org/, and the NRA, probably not. Here, one in twelve citizens has a CC permit. OC is legal also. And look at this state's violence stats....then look at Chicago. Case study.

They do not work.

(Having trouble logging in. For some reason.)

[conuly]

Maybe they only don't work when we have a patchwork of competing local and state laws, but they would work better if we had a single, unifying standard.

Regardless, around here few people have guns, and they're mostly not the sort of people I want to hang around with. And our violent crime rate keeps on going down, something I'm yearly proud of.

[(Anonymous)]

Let us model these national standards on the areas with the lowest crime rates and I will be behind it all the way. Hell, if we get national reciprocal CC out of it I will volunteer.