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Tell me, what makes the government (which owns plenty of nuclear weapons, as well as other WMDs) so much more deserving of your confidence than a competent private citizen? Is it their reputation for honesty? Their record of adherence to the laws of the country?
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How can this even be a serious question with anyone who doesn't have severe head trauma in their past? I mean really, the rationale behind this is quite simple. The government, while not perfect, has resources vastly more extensive than ours'. A nuke is not a baby, it's not a car, it's a VERY dangerous piece of radioactive material that can accidentally make your city cease to be. The government is under obligation to keep these out of populated areas for the most part, and the government has a massive amount of failsafes and checks and balances that make the checks and balances in the constitution look wimpy(because they are!). A nuke, if left just sitting around, could eventually just go off all on it's own. Why? Radiation eats circuits, eats casing materials. A private citizen cannot deal with the logistics of this. If they can, they have to be rich. So now you wanna make something that can end life on earth available to only rich people, creating an even more extreme division of social groups? Socialism has some valid points, and people wouldn't fall for it if there weren't some appealing arguments. People are not getting a fair chance to move ahead in life right now, and if you gave rich people nukes just imagine how much worse it might get. Despite what conservatives and libertarians may say, monopolies are real and they can be an extreme danger to public wellfare and our economy. Imagine trying to break up a monopoly when the owner has nukes. I shudder at the thought of that. If you think you or I are ever gonna so much as see one if they are made legal you're smoking crack.
Then the chem/bio. Those are just property too! Why don't we just release them into the air and kill everyone? Frankly I see absolutely no excuse for the US to have the stockpile of this crap that we do, but we should keep at least very small amounts on hand for research purposes, to invent countermeasures and other safety measures. The common citizen does not have any benefit from owning these. They are a further safety hazard in the home and they will be of little use in defending our civil liberties.
To make matters worse, when you go and say completely stupid things like allowing everyone to own nukes, you only push us one step closer to no guns. Fence sitters will never be convinced we are safe when we have madmen among us professing the lovely joys of nuke ownership! Wanna help HCI and MMM take our guns away? Keep preaching that. Promiting private nukes is a damn bad idea.