[ExI] Am I the only one freaked out by this? [GOV]

[John Clark]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
> wrote:


> ​> ​
> I might feel suspicious about anybody who buys warheads over 5 megatons.
>

​The founders of the Constitution
​in their stockings and silly wigs
were undoubtedly thinking of muzzle loading muskets and flintlock pistols
when they wrote it, but it can't be denied that the second amendment talks
about the
 right to bear arms
​, and ​
10 megaton warhead
​s are most certainly arms. So if the literal wording not the intentions of
the writer is all that matters then you should be allowed to buy
​
10 megaton warhead
​s at Walmarts.  After all, t
he founders
 ​
weren't
​thinking of
 AK47s anymore than they were thinking of Thermonuclear Bombs, so if one is
allowed why not the other?


> ​>​
> Why would any reasonable person want a 10 megaton warhead?
>

​Oh I don't know, perhaps they dislike ​Mount Everest and would prefer a
deep lake in its place. Or maybe they just enjoy spectacular fireworks.

  John K Clark
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