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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by spacedcowboy on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:53PM (#25340073)
That's not the real relationship tree. Mass gun ownership leads to fear. Fear may lead to politeness and caution, but only because of the fear. It may also lead to a 'fight or flight' type response, and things might escalate quickly beyond where anyone wanted them to be...

If you want to structure society around fear, that is (I guess) a country's prerogative, but it's not something I (as a non-American) would ever support.

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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by m463 on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:42PM (#25341015)
wasn't this story about the police being polite, and then later entering... cautiously?
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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by dboreham on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:40PM (#25341002)
This hasn't been my experience fwiw as someone who moved from a non-gun country to the US. To be honest where I live (Montana) guns really aren't a problem. At least not the kind of problem that makes it a win to require Democrat candidates to support additional gun control measures. I think it's not unrealistic to imagine that we could completely dispense with the crazy Republicans if only democrats would drop gun control, it's such a wedge issue. Imagine that: Trump would never have happened, in exchange for not pursuing gun laws that probably wouldn't have achieved anything.
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