Lotsa "conservatives", when talking about 2nd amendment rights and their notions of self-reliance and self-determination and whatever, like to argue that their gun is the great equalizer; that having the gun means it's less likely that anybody is going to push them around. I call this position The Meyer Lansky. To paraphrase Mr Lansky, "Everybody's more polite when everybody's got a gun".
I think we could all come up with a fairly simple rebuttal, but that's not what I'm thinking about right now. I'm wondering why the people who try to make that point are usually the same people who seem to think the same philosophical outlook doesn't apply to nuclear weapons.
Just wonderin'.
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