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Comments on: Say What‽ https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/05/20/say-what-9/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 21 May 2008 03:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/05/20/say-what-9/comment-page-1/#comment-36526 Wed, 21 May 2008 03:36:47 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=4205#comment-36526 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,

]]> By: Michael https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/05/20/say-what-9/comment-page-1/#comment-36525 Wed, 21 May 2008 03:14:58 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=4205#comment-36525 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.

]]> By: Michael https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/05/20/say-what-9/comment-page-1/#comment-36524 Wed, 21 May 2008 03:12:37 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=4205#comment-36524 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.

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