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... completely valid?
by darthrupert 4y ago
... completely valid?
- Rygian 4y agoRather than thinking in blurry terms like "valid," I would see it more useful to think in terms of how many innocent people will lose their lives when good guy and bad guy use their guns. Any arrangement that makes the number grow is worse than the others.
- galangalalgol 4y agoyeah more like two people holding grenades with the pins out in a crowd saying "don't make me drop this!"
- hackerlight 4y agoIt's not a great analogy. At the level of states, you have anarchy. This is the key insight of realism. There is no authority that places guardrails on how each state treats each other. So each state needs to arm themselves. At the level of people, you do not have anarchy. You have police which acts as the hegemon.
- darthrupert 4y agoI mean... on an individual level it's obviously true: if there's a determined active shooter, there's probably not much more you can do than try to shoot them first. On society level it's indeed a bit more complicated matter. Every additional gun in the society is potentially one more gun in the hands of a bad person.
- einpoklum 4y agoUS gun death statistics suggest otherwise.
- avgcorrection 4y agoNo.