I really want to read the reply to Undertoad's post, but I imagine that, sadly, it won't be anything that we haven't read earlier.
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Originally posted by Whit
Using this logic then jails are illegal, since it's illegal to lock up a neighbor. Hmm, so are speeding tickets and there's no reason I can't own a nuke.
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You can arrest a neighbor in a Citizen's Arrest, and I believe that there might be a private citizen who owns (or used to own) a nuke. Larry Niven mentioned the guy in the foreword to one of his short stories.
(edit: Wow. I previewed it several times but failed to notice that I had an open parenthesis).