Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: If a CCW applicant has to take classes and pass tests... [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)You are confusing what is the proper government functions such as fire, law enforcement, public health, healthcare, environmental regulations etc. Public safely is a vague catch all to to justify social control Racist drug laws were enacted for "public safety" the Klan and anti union thugs pushed through gun control for "public safety". Of course, not all group rights is a good thing. In South Africa, Apartheid was a "group right." One that neither of us agree with.
In Europe, gun laws had nothing to do with public safety, since murder rates were about the same as they are now, lower if you count UK. It was the 1 percent fearing those unwashed masses.
Actually no, anarchy can't exist because nature abhors a vacuum. Somalia went from totalitarian dictatorship to what amounts to feudalism, but not anarchy. The nearest thing to it we ever had were some libertarian socialist societies with hunter/gatherer economies. Like any other ideology, anarchy/libertariansim is faith based. I do like the non aggression principle.
Even as modern disasters have shown (outside of the few predators that take advantage of the situation) people form volunteer groups for mutual aid and carry out functions (sometimes with an kind of appointed informal leader) to carry out tasks and mutual aid.