I think we disagree on the point at which violations of autonomy by state actors are warranted. I don’t think systems predicated upon the top-down management of human behavior works for the same reasons economies can’t be managed that way: it doesn’t scale and leads to tyranny.
Well, as you know, real-world policy itself requires sweeping generalisations. Nuance at the individual level is unenforceable due to limited time and resources. I believe that guns designed for hunting should be allowed for licensed people, but not semi- or fully-automatic.
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Keep also in mind that a discussion from scratch about ideal gun policy is much different than the question about what new laws in the U.S. could move us in given directions.
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Yes, the talk of ideal gun policy illustrates the desired direction for current gun legislation to move in. I don't believe for one minute that my policy proposals could be enacted any time soon.
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I think that’s actually backwards, and one of the reasons why we can’t get any meaningful policy done is because the system has too many grandstanding idealists on both sides of the aisles and too few pragmatists trying to operate in the domain of reality.
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