Yeah agree. There's no easy answers here. Arming citizens just makes gang wars that occasionally harm citizens into civil wars that regularly harm citizens.

I think Honduras is a relevant case study in a kind of reverse Bukele anti-authoritarian state with people needing a private militia just to survive. I don't know much about it, but I know it didn't turn out so hot.

Bitcoiners can choose their poison I guess: Authoritarian capitalist state, or anarchic free state, but you can't always have it the way you want it.