• ZMoney@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    How about we outlaw nukes instead? F-35s? Missile cruisers? Reaper drones? Whatever they have in orbit that can kill us?

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      2 months ago

      I think only the military gets access to that stuff legally, and it’d be silly to restrict what weapons they can use. This is more about civilian ownership.

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        2 months ago

        My point was that the US thinks it’s important to outlaw certain civilian arms while its military constitutes an existential threat to continued human civilization. I think it’s ironic, but apparently people don’t like that here.

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          2 months ago

          Fair point, but it probably always will. That’s almost the point of the military: to be a threat to anyone who is against the interests or safety of a nation. I think modern technology has made them an even greater threat to anyone’s existence than ever before though.

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            2 months ago

            And the planet as a whole. I think we’re going to have to move past this model if we’re to survive. You can’t just keep feeding Moloch ad infinitum.