Armed individuals collectively ARE the big dog that keeps the hungry beast at bay.
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Socially funded and democratically directed armed forces. Not armed individuals.
Armed individuals who think they are the bulwarks of society, are generally more of a danger to it.
It's centralization of force. Centralization is the most dangerous vile.
If you decentralize everything, you are too busy growing your food, and defending it, to do anything else.
The answer is to do socialization better, not usher in a new dark age.
That requires trust in people with guns. History shows it usually doesn't end well for the ones without guns.
Wrong.
2020: The Year Governments Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Their Own People
https://anti-empire.com/2020-the-year-governments-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-their-own-people/
Maybe It would be a better standoff than thugs and governments with guns against defenceless public. Until comming to the understanding that if you can force your way, I will counter with equal or measurably equal backlash.
Decentralization doesn't mean individualization of everything. Current modern civilization requires (and is a product of) some high level of centralization of capital, minds, research, etc. To achieve higher properity. Yet available tech allows for a huge level of decentralization. There shall be a balance. Socialization without serious amount of decentralization leads to soviet communism which equals total slavery such as current situation in china or its islamic speciman in Iran under clerics.
Liberalism seems to be the eppicentre to a just decentral system.
Around 2015–2016, The Guardian newspaper ran a database called The Counted, which tracked US killings by police and other law enforcement agencies including from gunshots, tasers, car accidents and custody deaths. They counted 1,146 deaths for 2015 and 1,093 deaths for 2016.
Show me the "Socially funded and democratically directed armed forces", please.