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The primary rationale of our nuclear arsenal (an instrument of mass destruction if every there was one) has been as a deterence to similar and other forms of armed aggression. With two possible exceptions (Hirosima & Nagasaki), the rationale seems to have held up. Seems to me that citizens' guns fit the same profile if you consider the number of times they're used as a deterent vs number of times actually fired (FBI estimates in less than 2% of encounters). HCI is an instrument of mass stupidity. M2
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