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Old 04-20-2003, 12:37 PM   #11
Torrere
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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.
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).

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