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On 2016-03-28 16:09, Adrian Tymes wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I'm trying to think through how this would actually
work. Even at their angriest, they would remember the guns are
deadly force and so wouldn't fire on anyone they don't think is
about to fire on them, right? <br>
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Angry rational people would behave like that. But add even a small
mix of irrational people and disaster will follow. It is not hard to
find evidence in the news of people (even people professionally
trained) initiating deadly force when a rational person would
recognize that there is no realistic risk.<br>
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I like Steven Weinberg's challenge to the Texas law by banning them
from his classroom:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steven-weinberg-texas-guns_us_56a6b23ce4b0b87beec5dba0">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steven-weinberg-texas-guns_us_56a6b23ce4b0b87beec5dba0</a><br>
Being a professor with an impopular view is of course problematic,
since you are more easily outgunned by your class. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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