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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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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There's a spectrum of 'how much do you trust the other person,' and there's a spectrum of 'how much power do you have compared to the other person.' Hobbesian trap is in the former. I'm talking about the latter.
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False. Semi-automatic weapons. Automatic requires a whole hell of a lot of licensure and restrictions on use, such that you really cannot use it outside of very controlled recreation, mostly for tourism things.
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