My God(dess)! My own nephew a terrorist! And since he has daily access to anhydrous ammonia, he's probably making crystal in that trailer he lives in! Please, arrest him! Save him from himself! Send him to prison so that he can be reformed into a armed robber or something! But don't send him to one of them white collar lockups where he'd have to associate with CEOs and such -- our family is poor, but we do have limits of whom we will associate with.

Tony's cannons are used to salute the flag of the US of A. That is, they're little ones. He uses them when he goes out in his role as Scoutmaster and they have the flagraising and flag lowering ceremonies. Not only is he a Scoutmaster, he works for the Illinois State Police. So as a employee of the ISP, a decorated veteran, and a Scoutmaster, I certainly wouldn't want to cast any aspersions on his patriotism. Besides, he's still got them cannons.

Ted makes flintlocks and such, only they don't work well, if at all. So he gives them away and people put them over their fireplaces for decorations -- sort of gives it that "just in case the British attack" look. He's a real, true-blue American, being unemployed for some months now.

Genetic? I wouldn't go THAT far. I had my genome analyzed before Bobert announced my candydatecy, and while some of the amino acids did spell "GAT" others spelled "TAG", a game I was partial to in my younger days. Of course, others spelled "AGT" and "TGA" and "GTA" and other silly words like "AAA" (of which I am a member) and "TTT" and "GGG" and so on. Since there were far more "others" than "GATs", and more "TAGs" than "GATs" I think that any genetic predisposition to weapons is more than compensated for, nay, is OVERWHELMED, by a predisposition to playing "TAG". (For the record, the genomes of my siblings are absolutely identical to my own -- an astonishment to the scientists, since while we had the same pair of parents, we were born over a five year period. Genetics is at a loss to explain this.)

I hope that I have answered your questions. Vote for me, I need the retirement benefits.