Every psychopath deserves a photon torpedo. How a society treats their psychopaths says a lot about that society. Are we a galaxy that hides our criminally insane out of sight, relegated to the gutters and psychiatric wards, deprived of love and compassion? Or do we arm them against future tyrants? Do you want space communists and tyrants to enslave you and make you live in some kind of police state where you have to live in fear of getting blown up by secret police while you eat lunch at McZithipies? Look what happened over on Vega 12: Their government took away their photon torpedoes and multi-nuclear detonators. Now they are an oppressed and dominated society. Though the arts and sciences flourish there, and no crowds have been randomly assassinated by delusional schizophrenics for several millenia, nevertheless their rights are trampled on by tyrants.
Look, if photon torpedoes are illegal, only criminals will have photon torpedoes. Is that what you want, criminally insane people toting around killing machines? No! So we must give criminally insane people photon torpedoes as soon as possible. If the criminally insane don't blow up a peace loving deep orbit biospheres with photon torpedoes, they will do it with a stick, trust me. A stick can be just as dangerous as a photon torpedo in the wrong hands. Photon torpedoes don't kill aliens, ALIENS kill aliens. (I've often wondered if a stick is just as dangerous as a photon torpedo, should I be satisfied and protected if I carry a stick? I should....)
Plus a well armed criminal insane class is an important deterrent. As a criminally insane criminal carefully and rationally plans a burglary for example, their intrinsic ration and logic and sound thinking that they are using while planning said burglary will make them think twice if they know the lawful criminally insane citizen inside the home might be packing a photon torpedo, right? It is a deterrent. A well armed criminally insane yeomanry leads to a crime free, tyrant free society. The only tradeoff is you have to put up with the tyranny of criminally insane mass murderers, but Freedom isn't free, you know!
