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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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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To be fair, that’s a much better argument for gun ownership in 1800 than in 2018.
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Rocks would be better please. Bring back the right to own rocks to defend the citizens from the army.
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Wow! That was one absolutely expert libertarian thread. It was a finely crafted work of art.
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The structures that rule over the citizens of the US are not going to be bothered about your guns. They have bombs after all...
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I'm with Arun. We should have bombs and mortars. The rich could get missiles.
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How sure are you that guns make people safer from top down power structures? Brown shirts and other fanatic loyalists are worse with guns. In many authoritarian regimes, people fear their (tattler, loyal, blackmailed) neighbors almost as much as they fear police.
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Guns are stupid when there's systematic oppression. The stupid idea is that it'll be a final battle, but it's a daily battle that is waged based on who frames the rules and how.
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