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Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by gamblor956 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:02PM (#22551733)
By that definition, there are no free states except for Somalia, as nearly all countries except for the US ban private ownership of firearms.
Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by floren on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:03PM (#22551745)
> nearly all countries except for the US ban private ownership of firearms.

Man that's gonna surprise all the legal gun owners in Canada, the UK, Sweden, and so on.

Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by monksy on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:19PM (#22551860)
Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by ultrarunner on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:23PM (#22551878)
The constitution of Somalia[0] is actually a fairly interesting read, at least if you have a big imagination. Not sure I'd exactly characterize it as a "free state" though.

[0]http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/research/Somalia-Constitution2012.p...

Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by razakel on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:50PM (#22552767)
Shut up, you'll annoy the an-caps with your example of their fantasy world failing in reality!
Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by ultrarunner on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:58PM (#22552826)
Why would a failed state like Somalia having a restrictive constitution make an an-cap unhappy?
Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:15PM (#22551827)
>here are no free states except for Somalia,

You touch on an good point: enforcement.

So far in human history people have been mostly tolerant of laws that were incompatible with their way of life because resources available for enforcement has been the bottleneck and most laws go unenforced unless people really want them enforced. For example, anyone who wanted alcohol during prohibition could get it, it was just a little more expensive and lower quality. Sure alcohol was illegal but it wasn't considered immoral by most so you only had to hide your use of it from law enforcement, not from society in general. We seem to be entering an age (at least in the west) where thanks to technology the bottleneck is politicians and police willingness to face backlash from the public. I'm not going to speculate on what the future holds but I fear that it will not be good if people grow accustomed to the government ratcheting up enforcement of laws that are on the books but currently rarely used.

Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by dntbnmpls on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:15PM (#22552210)
Almost all nations allow private ownership of firearms. It's just the degree of hurdles you have to jump through that is different.

Off the top of my head, the only nation that I know explicitly bans private ownership of firearms is North Korea.