Rhetoric question...why should machine guns be okay, but not nukes?

[Lucky]

Scout 26 the problem is that nukes have been used quite a bit, already. If you allowed your government to do it then you did it. When a government conducts tests, how can that be acceptible while a private party doing the same is wrong?

 

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[hugh damright]

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[hugh damright]

If this was the case...I guess there wouldn't have been any point in defining the individual definition of treason, would there have been?

Well of course the US has power over individuals that commit federal crimes and thus come into federal jurisdiction. They have power over individuals that commit treason against the US, pirates, counterfeiters, etc. But these are exceptions to the rule. The feds do not have a general power to act directly upon individuals. Maybe if you stopped grinning so hard and opened your eyes you could see things with more clarity. D )

 

[Fosbery]

Eleven consecutive posts. That's got to be a record or something.

 

[hugh damright]

Yeah, sorry about that. I would try to post and it wouldn't show, and I'd try again ... they're doing some kind of maintenance ... finally I got word that the problem was fixed and tried to post again, and then every attempt I made to post today showed up at once.

 

[Scottmkiv]

I just wanted to add some legitimate, non-violent uses for nuclear weapons in private hands.

Nuclear bomb powered spaceflight looks to me like the only option that will ever be commercially viable on a meaningful scale. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion

I can also imagine small nuclear bombs being useful for mining, and other earth-moving projects, both on earth and in space.

 

[Lucky]

Scott it's also the way we will beat the Fitp!

 

[Gifted]

I can also imagine small nuclear bombs being useful for mining, and other earth-moving projects, both on earth and in space.

While I can understand nuclear propulsion, I don't see Orion engines making it over other methods. As for the rest, look up Operation Plowshare.

 

[ksnecktieman]

Hugh is not reading me any more, but for the ones that are, If you think the federal government does not legally control and effect civilians, go to your nearest military base, and run a stop sign in front of an MP. You will soon know that it was a federal offence. You willl also find out that the federal government DOES NOT forget, It will be a federal record when you die.

The list of crimes the feds can involve themselves in is enormous, and growing daily, and We The People are accepting it.