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by falcor84 61 days ago
You make it sound bad, but I personally am very much in favor of regular people having access to the same bad things that the people in charge have.
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You think normal folks should have access to precision guided munitions and chemical weapons?
Look, I don't think people should have access to these at all, but at the same time, I think that the average Joe would be a better custodian of these than Trump and Netanyahu.

My hope is that equal access might make us stop treating these things as if they are ok.

This has clearly worked out well with giving guns to the entire US population…
It definitely hasn't, but my argument would be in favor of making regular police forces be unarmed as well, like in the UK.
we have armed police, just not all police are armed
That's why I said "regular police". My understanding is that generally no one (including the police) is allowed to carry a gun in public unless someone already illegally introduced them into play. That's the world I want to live in.