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With your line of reasoning, would you prefer a world where all the munitions were held by megavillains, or a world where both megavillains and regular people had access to the munitions?

The latter strategy doesn't seem to work out that well for the USA because it results in regular people using the munitions on other regular people.

To defend themselves, hundreds of thousands to millions of times per year.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3194685

> indicate that defensive uses of guns by crime victims are far more common than offensive uses by criminals

That's literally the worst case scenario. Victims escalating the violence.

Are you saying that people defending themselves is worse than killing?

Many of the people here are optimistic about the use of tech for the betterment of mankind.

> the largest impact of this technology will be used against people, not for them

How so?