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"2. Your gun will avail you absolutely nothing when the government comes to you with a Predator drone. You will not "prevent dictatorship" by your gun."

I don't know that guns "prevent dictatorship", as you put it. North Korea is a good case in point - plenty of guns there but the leader retains his position. He's likely to die violently though, so I would tentatively post that one to the side of the guns people.

Guns sure can wreak a lot of havoc, e.g., Archduke Ferdinand, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, MLK, Malcolm X, Yitzak Rabin, etc. Guns are cheap and (relative to drones) easy to make. They can be deployed with a form of AI: a human being willing to risk death or too dumb to know better.

At the current prices, I don't think any current government can afford to deploy Predator drones against all of their gun owners without facing serious consequences(bankruptcy, revolution). Perhaps, given time, your fantasy will become fact.

But I would expect that, if drones are cheap, gun-owners will also be drone-owners. Perhaps someday hunters will drone a passel of rabbit or squirrel from the comfort of their living room, have Google drones deliver the fresh carcass to a processing facility and the dressed frozen meat to their back door? Mmmm, something to look forward to, eh?




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