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
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Replying to @chaosprime
Or it's best thought of as a way to justify massive police militarization and an excuse to declare ongoing low-intensity war on the populace if they aren't killing each other fast enough.
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The idea that governments go easier on their populace because the populace is heavily armed is a serious molon labe basilisk and is trading a small chance of positive outcome in the future for the certainty of carnage today.
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unless you don't reflexively discount the idea that the deterrent could be doing anything, in which case there's considerably more that it's providing today
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That requires accepting the absence of evidence as evidence. Seems more rewarding to compare USA with Japan or Germany (both forcibly disarmed) than with Libya.
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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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I believe the only limit that presents is "don't piss off too many of the gun nuts", which. Well. That's not much of a limit.
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you'll still miss it when it's gone
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