The idea that the states should have a monopoly on violence is deeply flawed. The solution isn’t to arm everybody to create a self-fulfilling Hobbesian prophecy, but to ensure states do not have the *internal* structure of a monopoly. Checks and balances break up monopoly.
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The distribution of capacity for violence among various security agencies, and the distribution of political control of those agencies across levels and regions, is the real check against *monopolistic* state violence power. Not 2nd amendment.
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