The powerful do need laws to survive.
No, they do not.
If the police force was dissolved, they'd just hire their own private armies (many have already done this, look at the history of the Pinkertons).
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The powerful do need laws to survive.
No, they do not.
If the police force was dissolved, they'd just hire their own private armies (many have already done this, look at the history of the Pinkertons).
I am familiar with the history of the Pinkertons. I also know about companies like Blackwater/Xe/whatever they have rebranded themselves to be now. However, it should be noted that while we have had problems like them, the latter especially exists as a government-sponsored organization. The Pinkertons were also expensive, and garnered bad PR that cost even more.
Corporations rely on externalizing enforcement costs through government. That is unsustainalbe if they need to handle it directly. Further, you're conversing with a gun guy. I support an armed populace equipped to withstand such an onslaught.
Meanwhile, the government wages wars at home and abroad with an uncountable death toll and incalculable cost to all of us. It is the true enemy if you are worried about the health and welfare of the most vulnerable.
How'd that work out for Ruby Ridge and Waco?
I agree.
They do this at the behest of "the military industrial complex" (MOBSTER CORPORATIONS).
Our focus should be on insulating the function of government from corruption.
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Armed people made problems for the Pingertons you mentioned. Armed people were not attacked by the police for protesting the quarantine. Armed Black Panthers scared the California government into making new prohibitions in the 60s. Armed protesters stopped the cops in the Bundy Ranch standoff.
Yes, the government responded with force to the Malheur protest and ambushed a man on his way to peace talks. The government used its legal system to entrap and Randy Weaver. The Waco siege was a publicity stunt that went sideways. It's not a guarantee of success, but it is a tool we need.
War is the health of the State. The MIC is corporations with charters and subsidies from the State that serve the State as it exercises its most essential function besides internal enforcement.
Guns in the hands of citizens sometimes work to their advantage and sometimes they just provide an excuse for the police to shoot them dead (they had a gun!).
If you really want to "defend yourself" you need one of these!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a22254/russia-illegal-laser-weapons/
Guns are just a tool in the Independence and resistance toolkit. I don't mean to imply they're the be-all and end-all, but neither should they be disregarded, and gun prohibition for the subjects is always a definite signal the State sees itself as supreme ruler.