| The voting power of a person in NYC is 0.8 compared to 3.04 in Wyoming. [https://medium.com/practical-coding/whats-my-vote-worth-3ca2...] I understand that there's a privilege involved in even having a close community, I recognize that and cherish that I have not only neighbors but close friends living less than 30 feet from me. I also recognize that the problems I have in a city are a planet's difference compared to rural living. That said, I think people who live rural are putting themselves at serious risk by embracing social isolation, and the data describes that. I'm extremely happy about starlink because for people's health, we need that kind of infrastructure to keep people connected, and extremely unhappy that we couldn't build it out faster. Everyone should have a right to community. As for guns, the UK allows anyone to own a gun through a licensing program [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58198857]. It's probably the most onerous requirements in the world, but they also have the lowest rates of gun death (both homicide and suicide) [https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...]. Guns are considered a privilege, not a right, and so the likelihood of even running into someone with a gun who might be threatening your life either in the city or the country, is significantly smaller. I'm not expecting a constitutional amendment, but getting back to my previous argument, we rammed through drug laws without a second thought to the implications of the constitution or the effect it would have on my city, and we could certainly do that here by regulating black powder in the same way we regulate fentanyl. I have a feeling people don't like this argument on either side because it reveals something hypocritical from both perspectives. The anti-gun crowd is very focused on the machine and the fear it instills, take away the AK47 and you're left with something that doesn't instill the same sort of emotional reaction, and much of their argument is built on that. The pro-gun crowd hates it not just because in creates regulation without taking away their guns (an entirely legal argument i'm sure), it flips the script toward a gun seller being a fentanyl dealer and a gun owner being a fentanyl user, which considering the numbers, isn't that far off apparently. |