A weapon isn't about equality. But if everyone carries a gun perhaps they just halve their population from time to time.
But not everyone has them and they never will so that's an unequal society, so no it's not a mechanism for equality.
Simon Lucy
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2025-04-30 20:45:34 UTC
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