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He obviously is an idiot.

Wow, what an irrefutable argument, back with so many facts. < /sarcasm>

because the Founding Fathers were homophobes

Hold the phone. That is a Liberal term. Your liberal colors are starting to show. If you are really going to try to explain the state sodomy laws as a result of homophobia, I see no point in arguing with you. That is pure ignorance.

You were shot down, because they obviously did not support the right to do ANYTHING with your body on your property.

You have yet to show how this happens in every circumstance.

I'm pretty sure that if it was legal to keep private nukes in your basement that there would be a great many that would never ultimately harm those around it. That doesn't change the risk factor.

My goal is to stop hard drugs from being sold, not go into people's houses and arrest them for use.

Wow, what an irrefutable argument, back[ed] with so many facts

I was never putting that forth as an argument. A spade's a spade. I call 'em as I see 'em.

Hold the phone. That is a Liberal term. Your liberal colors are starting to show. If you are really going to try to explain the state sodomy laws as a result of homophobia, I see no point in arguing with you. That is pure ignorance. You were shot down, because they obviously did not support the right to do ANYTHING with your body on your property.

Homophobia is a liberal only term? It refers to people who do not like gays purely for the fact that they are gay. State sodomy laws were put in place because people did not like gay people, and they did not like what gay people did, that is sodomy. Sounds pretty straight forward to me. You still have not given me your source that says the Founding Fathers directly supported sodomy laws. I'm waiting.

I'm pretty sure that if it was legal to keep private nukes in your basement that there would be a great many that would never ultimately harm those around it. That doesn't change the risk factor.

Apples and oranges. Here's the flaw with this straw man argument. When nukes are used, they always cause damage. If this nuke was used within the privacy of ones own home, unless one is isolated in the middle of nowhere, the nuke would damge others and iniate force against their right to life. Now a person who does a line of coke harms no one by this act. If this person then goes out and harms someone, then they will be dealt with. Your arguments make an a priori assumption that every person who does a recreational drug will go on to harm another person. This is flawed.

My goal is to stop hard drugs from being sold, not go into people's houses and arrest them for use.

People wouldn't sell drugs if people did not want to buy them. This isn't a supply problem, it's a demand problem. People want to "bend their minds". They will bend their minds wether its legal or not. So let see what changes if we allow the legalization of these substances. Will people still use drugs? Yes, nothing changes there. Will our Constitutional rights stop being stomped on by jack-booted thugs who can get away with practically anything in the name of this stupid War On Drugs? Yes. The alternative here? People still using drugs but the shredding of our Constitution continues in the name of fighting this WOD. Which do you think is the better position to take?

I'm pretty sure that if it was legal to keep private nukes in your basement

It is Legal. Right now.
So what's your point?

The Libertarian Chocolate-Covered Neutron Bomb

The President himself sent over the Bomb-making Plans.
We contacted several 12-year olds as technical consultants, one of whom, with that youthful simplicity that is a genius of its own, simply wrote a nice polite letter to the President, Mr. Jimmy "I'm a Nuclear Engineer" Carter, and soon received de-classified bomb-construction instruction material from the US Government Printing Office.
I mean, forget the current hysteria on kids discovering something dangerous about the Bomb in public libraries or (today) the Internet, in 1979 in response to us, the government promptly sent us instructions.
While the manufacturing techniques themselves are ultra-highly classified, the Russian photocopies of the techniques are... free public domain.
An engineering teacher who had taken an interest assured us it gave sufficient information on how to build a bomb, though not a very good one. The reason is that though the concepts were not secret, the advanced manufacturing techniques were indeed ruthlessly classified and quite unobtainable, not that it was anything the Soviets were unlikely to know, merely able to, one prayed, duplicate. He helpfully pointed out that while the US N-Bomb manufacturing techniques were classified, the copies of Soviet documents that were copies of them and that he had obtained at a recent conference in Vladivostok, weren't.
Oh.
Possession of Pistols and Water Balloons may be illegal; However, the private manufacture of Neutron Warheads is... a matter of personal discretion.
After another radio interview with media personalities Roger Grimsby and later Joe Franklin, and assurances, obtained by my doubting attorney from the Federal Government that only mass manufacture and transportation of nuclear weapons was (partially) regulated, we got serious.
After all, on the show another attorney called in who pointed out that while capital (i.e big) weapons in the US Constitution are prohibited to the States, they are pointedly not so prohibited to the people, and there were many collectors of tanks, bombers and other items, defused of course, but easily re-commissioned—but beware, pistols were illegal in Manhattan. As were balloon bombs tossed from windows.
Thus, we were in business.
Libertarians supplying free or low-cost N-bombs to the US Government—why not?
Ever helpful, the Department of Defense will be happy to tell you where to procure your Nuclear-Warhead-Manufacturing supplies.
Recently a woman was denied entry into a Graduate library program on the basis that she was a Libertarian. As movingly reported in this newpaper, in New Zealand one person has been denied entry on that basis. But there was no such repugnant official discrimination then, at least in weapons manufacture.
I applied for and promptly received a DOD number from the Pentagon, endless invitations to Military Surplus auctions, all along with a packet of specifications stamped TOP SECRET in sinister candy striped boxes that, upon advice of my father, as a retired Pentagon and intelligence high official, I promptly and without opening got rid of in an incinerator.
Need a Tax Shelter? The Government will subsidize your private home manufacture of Nuclear Warheads with generous tax breaks -- PROVIDED THAT you employ deaf, dumb, blind alcoholics in the production of your personal Neutron Bomb.
There was thus also the call of collective service. I received materials computer-addressed to "Dear Mr. Neutron" urging me to sign up for tax breaks in some Byzantine pro-disadvantaged and illiterate-minority hiring scheme of the City that, I must confess, after diligent re-reading, I never really quite understood. "The City of New York… believe we can encourage deaf, dumb, blind, alcohol-, controlled substance- or motor-dishabilatated (?) people who may not have reading or numeric skills in [here I presume the computer filled in a blank in the form-letter] home neutron-bomb industry with this tax advantaged initiative."
Who was I to disagree with the City Fathers of the Mightiest Metropolis on Earth, by virtue of the UN presence, the very capital of the planet? They wanted those "blind blind-drunks" and folks who were "usually OK as long as they took their medication" sitting there next to me, cheek by jowl, as we crafted home N-bombs like a South Manhattan Santa with his whacked-out elves.
But be advised -- if you are going to manufacture Nuclear Warheads in your basement, a Fireworks Permit WILL BE required.
But there was a mushroom cloud on the horizon. The attorney had said something along these lines, and I received a first warning from the City for having an illegal sign, was told I was not subject to most regulation as long as I was a sole proprietor and got a Fireworks permit, and, mercy, absolutely did not offer the chocolate for sale as a consumable.
However, would-be private manufacturers of basement Neutron Bombs should be aware -- while the private manufacture and possession of Neutron Bombs is entirely Legal, the City Council of Chico, California will assess a $500 FINE for exploding a nuclear warhead within city limits.
As I circulated drafts of this article over several months for comment, a friend noted that the climate was indeed different—in a way.
Chico, California, had passed a law— not against owning a Nuclear Bomb, not against building one, but exploding one in city limits. The fine is set at $500.
Call them up. They are very proud of this law.