populace armament is best thought of as a strategic deterrent. the US nuclear arsenal is the strategic deterrent that belongs to the owners of America; the armed US populace is the strategic deterrent that belongs to the people of America
does it though? isn't an explanation called for of why a risk of triggering a nation-ending insurrection would magically be completely ignored? Germany and Japan, wonder if anybody could impute some phenomena consistent with increasing immiseration and value extraction there
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If you're saying "we can't disarm America because the gun nuts could destroy us"--well, that seems very different from what you were previously arguing, which is that a heavily armed populace is good, actually.
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no, what i am saying now and what i was originally saying is that there are limits to how hard we can immiserate America because the gun nuts could destroy us, and that that's a good thinghttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1160249733174218754 …
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