You are missing the point.  What you said in the above thread is wrong.  Maybe your point is that you wouldn't mind if your mom carried a gun on a plane, as long as she was trained?

Anyway, I don't expect people in other parts of the world to have the same mentality of many of the folks in New Hampshire.  The state is known as the home of Live Free or Die for a reason.  People tend not to think the same way in other places.

Personally, I'm against nuclear weapons because they are an offensive weapon.  Guns, at least when used in the US, are a defensive weapon the vast majority of the time.  Defensive weapons are fantastic because less violence is a good thing.

This is 2000-and-awesome, I love hearing stories like this. Go Nintendomination!

Agreed with the last sentence.

It's still funny that the Balance Board can be used for something like this though.

Great! Now any one who is nervous about flying gets to be harassed by airport security. Land of the free indeed...

The US is certainly not the land of the free.  Although, freedom can vary pretty widely from state to state.  States like NH tend to be the most free, while states like NY tend to be the least free.

Here is the ranking for all 50 states, http://www.statepolicyindex.com/

While people might disagree slightly about the order, the tends in the data are accurate enough.

Table V: Ov erall Freedom Ranking
State Overall Free dom
1. New Hampshire 0.432
2. Colorado 0.421
3. South Dakota 0.392
4. Idaho 0.356
5. Texas 0.346
6. Missouri 0.320
7. Tennessee 0.284
8. Arizona 0.279
9. Virginia 0.275
10. North Dakota 0.268
11. Utah 0.250
12. Kansas 0.210
13. Indiana 0.208
14. Michigan 0.206
15. Wyoming 0.193
16. Iowa 0.183
17. Georgia 0.146
18. Oklahoma 0.143
19. Montana 0.125
20. Pennsylvania 0.102
21. Alabama 0.092
22. Florida 0.068
23. North Carolina 0.019
24. Nevada 0.013
25. Mississippi -0.004
26. Delaware -0.008
27. Oregon -0.009
28. Nebraska -0.018
29. Arkansas -0.023
30. South Carolina -0.040
31. Alaska -0.071
32. Kentucky -0.082
33. West Virginia -0.097
34. Louisiana -0.110
35. Minnesota -0.111
36. New Mexico -0.150
37. Wisconsin -0.199
38. Ohio -0.205
39. Maine -0.214
40. Vermont -0.217
41. Connecticut -0.225
42. Illinois -0.238
43. Massachusetts -0.242
44. Washington -0.275
45. Hawaii -0.304
46. Maryland -0.405
47. California -0.413
48. Rhode Island -0.430
49. New Jersey -0.457
50. New York -0.784

WTF? It was only used twice in history and that was as an offensive move (despite arguments for the contrary) but to think that Nuclear Weapons are an offensive military stategy is quite possibly the dumbest thing i have ever heard.  

That kind of excessive damage and massive civilian death potential simply is not considered logical, it is only a Defensive option. You don't know what you are talking about and your paranoia is going to lead to the death of civilization if you actually believe what you are saying.  

Nulcear weapons are a "last resort" weapon (neither offensive or defensive), that have only been used twice, in 1 war, against 1 country, with amazing results!

The US was planning an invasion to Japan, thousands and thousands of lives on both sides would be lost. the first nuke was fired and Japan was still going to fight, the 2nd nuke was fired and they surrendered, no US troops died, and significantly less Japanese casualties than there would have been with a full invasion.

If nukes were truly an offensive weapon Iraq would be glass right now and we would have been done with it 8 years ago, but we know how serious a nuclear type war could be, and will do whatever it takes to avoid it.

I don't know if you are trolling me, want to be banned, or are just being sarcastic.  Either way, I don't see this ending up well so I'll end this talk now.