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over abundance of guns does kill people, though. that we could imagine that this shouldn’t be the case doesn’t really matter in the real world.

the idea that we can scatter tools of enormous power around and just not worry about it is crazy

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The real worry from these tools is relative power. A man with a knife can kill a few people. A man with a rifle can kill a few dozen people. A man with a few zero days can cripple infrastructure around the country and cause hundreds if not thousands of deaths. Relative power asymmetries are why nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons are banned by international law.

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