The US is becoming a hollow state in which oligarchic factions wield the machinery of government to funnel money into their coffers via bloated military projects, mass incarceration in private prisons, regulatory capture, etc. Politics is pure kayfabe, team oligarch vs team state
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s/radical/silly FTFY In all seriousness, I see your point. I disagree with it as a core principle. People who really are violent need to be kept away from the rest of us. If we do that, they will not be able to commit violent crimes. Violent crime is therefore prevented.
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they've already committed at least one violent crime by that point. talking about prevention here.
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You don't think keeping people who are violent away from everybody would prevent violence? Man, tough crowd. I'm not talking about FutureCrime. You're right. We can't stop that, and the very idea of trying is terrifying.
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there is definitely some small group of people who are unable to control their own violent urges. many possible reasons for this but yes, absolutely, there are some people who are not able to live in normal society at all. that's what prison should be for, not what we do now.
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secondary to that would be elimination of specific environmental risk factors that fuck up childhood development. lead in particular, and other similar things seems to make a huge difference.
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doubt this obtains unfortunately some people really are fucking crazy plenty of improvements to be had on the margin you suggest, I just dont think they extend across the entire domain
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Although if you are right theres no harm in complete weapons deregulation right?

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much less harm than many imagine there would be. one of the few NRA talking points that actually holds up to scrutiny is that career criminals don't care about getting legal weapons.
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