In my twitter polls a surprisingly large amount of people vote for 'small concrete good' as opposed to 'large abstract good' - for example, more people voted to 'save the life of a child' than 'prevent gender roles from reverting to the 1950s'
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you agree with me so far but I've got my eye on that gun control horizon
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Does gun ownership result in higher gun deaths? Probably. Is it worth it? I think.... probably yes. I don't trust the systems in power. Not a tiny bit. And our entire civilization is built under the echo of the threat of force.
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The gun control debate is about safety - but I see it less about safety from gun crime and more about the safety of the people from the structures that rule over us. That question seems to have far more lives at stake.
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And to the inevitable "the government's guns are bigger than ours so it doesn't matter" If I want to kill your cancer, I kill you, and all my big guns make it easy. If I want to kill my cancer, I undergo lots of careful drugs and chemotherapy, and all my big guns mean nothing.
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The war machine was designed against other countries. If the government turns the war machine against itself, it risks going down with it. And maybe it will take that risk - but an armed populace makes it less likely.
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I do think you're ignoring some other factors here though. Not the least of which is the personal responsibility angle where you're faced with purposefully allowing a child to die v. allowing social structures that may lead to negatives depending on chance and choices of others.
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