Some mentioned the other one was old. Heres a two-day old article on the same issue.

  • FireTower@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You say citizens shouldn’t have the ability, I’d say citizens shouldn’t have the motivation. And there I suppose is where we differ.

    Those types of intentional acts are the culmination of means and motive. There exists pragmatic reasons for one to have a means of offense, but no pragmatic reason to accept a world where a motive for such an offense could preside.

    I would suggest that the cure to that ailment is addressing wealth disparity and the ways technology has driven our country further apart now more than ever.

    A nation where martial might resided largely in a people’s milita rather than a government’s army wouldn’t be engaged in eternal foreign warfare as a means of justifying the existence of the military industrial complex but rather acting as a deterrent against invasion.

    But thank you for at least humoring my perspective.