re the usual kendall lds loral com colin kendall writes i just heard some anti gun control people giving the usual arguments it s everyone s right to bear arms and the way to solve the problem of people getting killed by guns is better law enforcement it strikes me that this argument could be logically extended as follows a nuclear weapon is an arm hence anyone has a right to have nuclear weapons and if someone uses his nuclear weapons to blow up new york l a and chicago that s okay as long as we have a good police force capable of finding him and putting him in jail which will serve as a deterrent to others do any anti gun control people disagree with this and if so why yes i am pro gun and yes i do disagree with this statement nuclear weapons in and of themselves are dangerous radioactive decay of plutonium and uranium as well as the tritium in the weapon tends to be somewhat dangerous to living things can you say neutron flux plus these things have no self defense purposes it s kinda hard to justify their use as a militia weapon when at best they are meant for battlefield use low yield weapons or at worst for industrial target obliteration translation cities and population centers not to mention that for it to be used as a militia weapon and expect the user to live requires some sort of launch vehicle aaron arc cco caltech edu
