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Subject: Private arsenals
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   [ This seems to be my week for administrative errors!  I accidently
left this message out of a digest a while back.  My apologies to Keith
and M. Stubbs - CWM]

    From: sdcsvax!ncr-sd!stubbs@ucbvax.berkeley.edu

    This amendment would not allow prohibition of the following
    activities which I personally think should be prohibited ...

    Building a nuclear reactor or bomb in my back yard.

  I am not comfortable with priavte ownership of nuclear bombs.
Neither am I comfortable with government ownership of nuclear bombs.
As the world becomes a wealthier place we are likely to see more of
both, whether it's legal or not.  I wish I had a solution.  I don't.
  But the problem with nuclear bombs has nothing to do with private
vs. government ownership.  The problem has to do with their enormous
destructive capacity and the fact that they have no legitimate use
whatsoever, no matter who owns them.

    Manufacturing, possessing or selling handguns, Thompson submachine
    guns, artillery, dynamite, nitroglycerine
    (insert many dangerous chemicals, processes, activities)...

  These ARE privately manufactured and owned.  And I see nothing wrong
with it.
                                                              ...Keith

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