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by credit_guy 4 days ago
Ok. What's your stance on gun ownership then? And by gun, I mean naval guns.
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My position is that anyone can own a cannon and shells, but you only get to fire it once before the feds step in.

Giving a naval cannon to the average person does not threaten humanity any more than giving them a gun or an LLM does. None of them are a panacea for anything.

A mass shooter wakes up in the morning and thinks: "I'll fire my naval gun once, then politely hand it to the feds..."
I imagine that he'd be pulled over by the cops towing his artillery into battle, first.
On what grounds? You just said everyone should be allowed to own artillery.
It seems completely unhinged for civilians to have naval guns. You could level an entire neighborhood with one of those.
It's also completely unhinged to own a Shahed 136 or a ballistic missile, but both are fairly attainable and even legal within certain usages.
I don’t know what you mean man people obviously don’t own personal tomahawk missiles and that sort of thing. If you have a Shahed loaded with explosives on your property you will probably have to deal with LE