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   DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 05:44:27 JST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

   putting together a group of folks in your area to design and build a surface-to-air trebuchet accurate enough to hit billionaires' private planes is both community building and climate catastrophe mitigation so you get a twofer in the good feels department. just a suggestion.

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 05:45:07 JST Rocketman

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     @djsundog Nice idea.

     Btw, I'm not familiar with US law, but do Stingers fall under the 2nd Amendment?

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 05:48:24 JST Rocketman

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     @djsundog Personally I would honestly have thought that these days a "well-armed militia" includes surface-to-air capabilities. But what do I know.

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     DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 05:48:25 JST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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     • Rocketman

     @slothrop probably frowned upon but I am not a cop so if someone has access to one I ain't gonna stop em

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 07:08:45 JST Rocketman

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     @TerryHancock @djsundog Your textual analysis focuses on the word “arms”. Perhaps more relevant to your question is the word “bear”.

     Was it intended to mean “carry”? In that case ICBMs are out, because you can’t really carry one.

     Stingers are still fine though.

     😂😂😂

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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 07:08:46 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     • Rocketman

     @slothrop @djsundog

     I have long argued that a plain reading of the 2nd Amendment includes strategic nuclear ICBMs.

     It says *ARMS*, not "guns".

     I had a military guy go into rage hair-splitting, claiming that those aren't "arms" by some abstruse technical definition.

     But I think it makes sense, and I argue this is the reason why a direct plain-reading absolutely does NOT make sense (which would be why they invented whatever sophistry he was attempting).