>I'm worried that the US is going into something like the years of lead that's just going to make daily life more dangerous for everyone :( A serious reduction

>I'm worried that the US is going into something like the years of lead that's just going to make daily life more dangerous for everyone :( A serious reduction in the government's ability to enforce it's monopoly on violence would go a long way toward reducing wrong in the world (and it would also motivate the .gov to use its monopoly on violence better but that's beside the point). Organizations specifically, but individuals too, think to much in terms of legal and illegal and not enough in terms of right and wrong. If individuals and entities that wrong people had to pay up for their own enforcement and protection rather than just leeching on the taxpayer funded jackboots in blue to do it all (after a bunch of expensive court and lawyer process) they would quickly find that a lot of the wronging they do doesn't actually make economic sense. Tons of business models that amount to wronging people too little for them to sue you and too vaguely for a class action or swindling people big-time and then paying your way through the lawsuits to make it stick would evaporate overnight if they had to pay for their own enforcement and security. However, keep in mind that nothing is free. A lot of little people would be on the receiving end of violence too, not just exploitive megacorps.