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Re:Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sust... by marssaxman on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:45PM (#16832207)
> the issue is that the state has to have a monopoly on violence

That is not the case in the USA, where the absence of such a monopoly is written into the federal constitution.

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Re:Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sust... by baursak on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:55PM (#16834625)
Are you talking about 2nd amendment? If so, that's not a grant to violence by any means. If you want to test if the state really has a monopoly on violence, try being violent, or simply disobedient with an officer of the state.
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