The reason why I never wanted a gun in my house is because of looking at the statistics of who is by far the most likely to get shot by that gun. [Either me or my spouse.]

Ah. Same here. Though I can’t get a legal one here anyway, because Russian laws make no difference between ADHD, ASD and schizophrenia for the purpose of getting a permit.

I misunderstood that “anti-gun personally”, cause not wanting a gun in your own house doesn’t mean being anti-gun. One thing is about whether the choice is on your side or on the government’s, the other is what would you choose.

Some people choose the pleasure of ridiculing their opponents over being a little bit more certain that they won’t regret later when shit hits the fan.

Correction - you should believe them that such will happen when nobody else but them has knives and they are certain they won’t get a scratch while it’s happening. Until then they’ll be very afraid.

The dangerous part is that the fact that they are cowards may over time become more notable than the fact that they really want this.

I mean, when somebody says a threat of such kind in a situation which doesn’t yet warrant it, it’s clear they are cowards.

Make no mistake - that bloodshed they want to be done by police, national guard and such. Not their own supporters. Cause no person who says such things first wants to be shot back at.

I hope you do realize that this means you’ve been wrong all the time. Because the main political argument for gun ownership is such events exactly.

If between two variants in a decision there’s a huge difference in incomes for someone, that someone will find a way to make the deciding party interested in that difference.

Which is why good guys should introduce good things slowly and carefully, the way bad guys introduce bad things (unless they are too powerful to care).

TBF to fight a government that went rogue in our time you’ll need a whole lot more than knowing how to shoot a rifle.

Field medicine. Chemistry. How to build underground shelters against airstrikes. How to make mortars and mortar shots in garage with commonly available tooling. Using FPV drones, of course. Using (and possibly making) AT shots. Maybe simple (Katyusha-level) artillery manufacturing. Making mines.

That’s just some of the manufacturing knowledge you’ll need, it’s much more.

Communications - something easy to get wrong.

Then - tactics and teamwork, of course. It’s a lot to learn and requires lots of training.

Logistics. Something which doesn’t seem as hard as the rest, while in fact the hardest.

And I’m just mentioning things, one can write a book for every one of them.

They are free to interpret it this way just as you are your way.

It would be weird for a new polity, result of a winning rebellion against lawful government, and definitely against its laws (some people think one can rebel not breaking any laws, apparently, claiming there are legal and illegal rebellions), to not have this in mind frankly.

And from the context of the second amendment we know that back then it was interpreted exactly as a militia that can fight against federal military.

One can argue in theory that this doesn’t mean individual gun rights, just that states should have their own armies (national guard). One can’t argue that it’s not intended for rebellion, because it very openly was.

We used to, and that’s how we pressured politicians into the New Deal, but organized labor has been dismantled since then.

It’s the downside of very rapid economic and social development in USA as compared to France since then. When things are changing so fast, some you just lose, maybe don’t even think you need them anymore, and have to build them again.

EDIT: And most of the planet is less conscious than the French for this matter.

Kill them! Do it!

When it’s not E2EE, maybe they are right. What’s the point of encrypting something that gets decrypted midway by an organization with hundreds of employees, many of them with access, not even talking about law enforcement and accidental criminals.

EDIT: I mean, illusion of security may be sometimes worse that lack of that little security which comes with it. Everything is complex.

OK, it’s totally false now, but before that bill it was technically false, but practically usually true. I don’t live in Israel and kinda forgot that whole thing due to being more interested in it in the context of Israel arming Azerbaijan.

And it’s fine when there are states behaving with the responsibility of an RTS player. Will read, thx

I should have added that practical Catholicism in South America doesn’t seem to have this kind of weirdness, so indeed it’s Puritans or even more generally, the spirit of a closed small sect, where the religion itself is not as important as the sect loyalty and uncritical following. Only it’s neither closed nor small.

It requires very rigid discipline to threaten your enemy with MAD. The more tasks you can solve without testing your own faction’s discipline, the better. If every parking place argument gets to threats of nuking the opponent, because you can’t threaten anything else, either eventually you’ll have to use MAD for such a small cause, or you’ll step back on that and then there’ll be something a bit more important over which you’ll threaten MAD.

And so on, until MAD is in practice useless for you.

No word on Artsakh being literally occupied and ethnically cleansed.

Forcefully drawing a border less encouraging of violence against native population. Also forcefully stopping all their meddling in the form of military occupation, blockade, block posts and so on. Arming their neighbors so that Israel doesn’t have such a military advantage.

Even Yeltsin made a few nuclear threats in his time.

And frankly those threats were more meaningful, with all the bravado of today Yeltsin’s poor depressive Russia was much stronger militarily than the one we have.

Yes, opposing the establishment of a new state with a new population where someone else already lived would have been appropriate in the late 1940s.

Unfortunately it’s 2024 now, Israel does exist and time is linear.

That means that if you commit a crime and wait long enough, it’s legitimized. No way in hell.

Looks cool.

I really like it when people solve complex tasks with simple and natural means.

Same goes for analog electronics and 60s-80s ideas of the future of technology.

Only about keeping the grass short - why? Is it for the ground to dry faster?