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I personally feel like my second amendment rights are infringed by the government outlawing access to surface to air missiles, bazookas, and thermonuclear weapo
by freen 6y ago
I personally feel like my second amendment rights are infringed by the government outlawing access to surface to air missiles, bazookas, and thermonuclear weapons.
The line has been drawn, we are just arguing over where.
- bifrost 6y agoPeople joke about this a lot. Several of these things can actually be purchased illegally, non-trivially, but yet they're never used for crime. You can buy grenades, grenade launchers, cannons/etc with a "permit" from the government - they're never used in crime. And to those who've passed a few physics classes...
- jwhitlark 6y agoRarely used in a crime. https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/06/motorbike-gang-member-arrested-for-anti-tank-missile-attack-on-office/ https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/06/motorbike-gang-member-...
- bifrost 6y agoYes, very rarely. This is also in the Netherlands where the borders to countries involved in active war are fairly porous.
- CamperBob2 6y agoAnother irrelevant but frequently-made point. If you maintain your own stash of nukes, you're effectively a state-level actor. Gun control laws no longer apply. Arms proliferation treaties, maybe, but not gun control.