LAPD declares 'ghost guns' an 'epidemic.’

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Yet it's our fundamental right, and a subset of our natural rights.

And it hasn't correlated with accelerated crime and intensity of such.

Indeed, and it is in a way our public duty, too: according to the USC/2A, it is deemed necessary to the security of a free state. (We see that the first thing a non-free state does is, it tries to take away the people's right to keep and bear arms - especially the kinds that can be used effectively for the stated purpose.)

> Indeed, and it is in a way our public duty, too: according to the USC/2A, it is deemed necessary to the security of a free state.

But the reason for that is largely to prevent the temptation for allowing the creation of things like the LAPD in the first place, with the universal popular militia as the force relied on when public authority needs armed enforcement.

Play authoritarian games [0], get authoritarian prizes.

[0] e.g., create standing domestic paramilitary forces to protect the elites from riffraff.

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