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On the other hand the US has the highest incarnation rate of any western country by a large margin. So I guess the guns don't help against the totalitarian tend
by cycomanic 4y ago
On the other hand the US has the highest incarnation rate of any western country by a large margin. So I guess the guns don't help against the totalitarian tendencies of their government.
- zmgsabst 4y agoAre you saying you believe that number would be lower if Americans owned fewer guns? — what mechanism do you believe would cause that?
- cycomanic 4y agoNo I'm saying that your argument is that putting people into forced quarantine if the disobey requirements is totalitarian and that it would be prevented by higher gun ownership. I'm saying that the US is putting a much larger fraction of their population into jails (for disobeying requirements), which should be considered just as totalitarian and the armed populace is not preventing it.
- zmgsabst 4y agoYou don’t see a difference between jailing people who commit crimes versus forcible quarantine of people because they caught a highly communicable disease? Or why forcible internment in camps for a disease might remind people of other atrocities in history?