I agree, but in the mean time people must be protected from themselves, or else we become subject to the law of the jungle. Or would you allow everyone to own their own nuclear missile?
It's a valid question because we're talking about policy here. I am simply asking you to be more specific about the kind of policy you would favour.
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It’s highly contingent and path-dependent. There’s not a universally applicable answer, which is why most people’s knee-jerk responses do more harm than good when dealing with complex systems. But as a thought experiment...
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Call X the saturation of weapon ownership. Call Y the lethality of said weapon. Call Z the probability that the weapons will be used in attempts at confiscation. (1-(xy))/z seems like a decent heuristic for success, and therefore whether it’s pragmatic to attempt confiscation.
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