RE: So hypothetically, if you do own dynamite and don’t use it to harm others, who but you will know? Does a tree falling in the forest...
And that’s the point, I can use it as an excuse to practice blowing up hypothetical terrorists who attack this country (practicing the defense of America) and if laws allowed that, I should have freedom to do so, even if my REAL intent is to blow up innocents (How can anyone read my real intent? Aren’t we all supposed to be presume innocent until proven guilty?)
RE: If you wanted to harm others you don’t need dynamite, you could stand on an expressway overpass and drop rocks on cars passing below, as children of the “inner city” do on occasion when they become bored.
Yes, but if I want to do MORE harm to others, A Bazooka or Dynamite will do MORE damage. Why use the boring rock to harm only a few people when I can use the bazooka or dynamite to kill 10 or more in one shot?
Yes, I do make the decision to harm. Therefore by your reasoning, since bazookas and dynamites are in and of themselves harmful only if evil people use them, then by extension to this reasoning, since the vast majority of people are NOT evil and law abiding, they should legally be allowed to own them for whatever not harmful reason they might have, right?
The other fellow who responded to my question seem to have answered ‘YES’ to my question (see posts 18 and 20 above ).
First of all I did not say that weapons "are harmful only if evil people use them", I said that weapons are inanimate objects and do not possess free will. That's quite a reach you made of what I said. My original point was if you had a basement full of dynamite and didn't use it (being the nice guy that you no doubt are) no one would know but you, so who cares what you are sitting on?
Likewise if every person (good or evil) had a basement full of "assault weapons" and nobody talked about them, who cares. If however you suspected your slightly creepy neighbor had something dangerous and he had the same idea about you would have reached a sort of MAD which worked perfectly for scores of years and kept the peace in an unstable world. My position is that what I have in my basement is my business and none of yours. I couldn;t care less about what you have in yours...
Regards,
GtG
PS If you really want to cause a lot of damage to a lot of people just clog the storm drains of the underpass on a rainy night, you still don't need dynamite. You keep asking for outside help, if you put your mind to it you are capable of creating disasters of biblical proportions with nothing but a fertile imagination.