In a recent town hall in Hudson, New Hampshire Joe Biden made a strong case to expand the second amendment. Answering the question of a lifer in the small community, the former Vice President offered a fairly novel interpretation of the second amendment, Biden said:

Those who say ‘the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots’ — a great line, well, guess what: The fact is, if you’re going to take on the government you need an F-15 with Hellfire Missiles. There is no way an AK-47 is going to take care of you.

What the presidential hopeful attempted to articulate is that the “well regulated militia” clause of the second amendment has lately become quite wanting in scope, and that new breakthroughs in military technology demand modern solutions. One clear avenue proffered by good old Joe is the expansion of private ownership of military weapons, such as F-15s and Hellfire Missiles.

To Biden’s thinking, if the government can own it then shouldn’t its citizens? This seems like a very scary, yet fair balance. I, personally, am waiting for the right to privately own drone bombers that made the Nobel Peace Prize winning president Barack Obama great. Until then let’s hope Biden can pull the right strings and expand private ownership of military grade weapons.