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My Second Amendment Right to Own Nuclear Weapons HUFFINGTON POST,  07/25/2012  My Second Amendment right to own nuclear weapons. Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? And yet this is the argument used by the NRA to support anybody’s access to any weapons. I am one of a few who could actually design and build his own nuclear bomb. Should I be allowed to do so? Obviously not. Can you imagine the Aurora shooter with a nuclear bomb?…….,

the NRA has become so obsessed with politics there is a need for a group to replace them as a club for gun users and hobbyists. Today we are way beyond colonial muskets, cannons and horses of the 1700s. The idea that anyone can oppose a modern military — trillion dollar budgets, supersonic aircraft and missiles, GPS satellites and communications for millions of soldiers — with a gun is childish Hollywood at best.

Back to reality, we have an enemy that is killing thousands of Americans every year, wounding many more than even our wars. If this were a direct attack on us, like 9/11, we would respond. Are we unable to respond to this threat because we are afraid that lobbyist or politician will throw an irrational temper tantrum?

Weapons, like everything in life, have limits. America is no longer the colonial frontier of 300 years ago, but a large technological society of 300 million. Time to grow up and plan for today.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gareth-harris/my-second-amendment-right_b_1698099.html

July 29, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general