Jams O’Donnell writes about a new law being proposed in Ireland: Detonation of nuclear weapon to carry 12 month sentence (or a fine).
A €5,000 fine is not a traffic ticket, but I would think eliminating a city might call for a little more. Actually this is in line with a Class A misdemeanor in New York, not even a felony. After the completion of the sentence you could still vote in every state, own a gun, and have a professional license.
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I’m not sure you can really impose any penalty as a matter of national law, but it seems that laws against murder and such would generally take care of it if it were domestic terrorism.
My point may not be made as clearly as I’d intended, but generally anyone capable of detonating a nuclear weapon must be factored as a bit more serious of a character than an ordinance would help with.
A nuclear weapon is a bomb, and every country has laws about bombs. In New York bashing someone’s lawn gnome with a baseball bat is a misdemeanor, but if you bust it with a large firecracker like a cherry bomb or M-80, it’s a felony because an “explosive device” was used.
I didn’t mention mailboxes, the normal target, because that’s a Federal offense, if anyone feels like pursuing it.
The absurdity is the sentence, not that it is illegal, actually, there is probably an existing law with a stiffer penalty for having a nuclear device in your possession,