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With your line of reasoning, would you prefer a world where all the munitions were held by megavillains, or a world where both megavillains and regular people h
by staktrace 7y ago
With your line of reasoning, would you prefer a world where all the munitions were held by megavillains, or a world where both megavillains and regular people had access to the munitions?
- minikites 7y agoThe latter strategy doesn't seem to work out that well for the USA because it results in regular people using the munitions on other regular people.
- zenography 7y agoTo defend themselves, hundreds of thousands to millions of times per year. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3194685 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3194685
- williamdclt 7y ago> indicate that defensive uses of guns by crime victims are far more common than offensive uses by criminals That's literally the worst case scenario. Victims escalating the violence.
- zenography 7y agoAre you saying that people defending themselves is worse than killing?