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Not quite. What my argument amounts to is the claim that bare “potentials” aren’t enough to justify the extremely confident claims you are making on behalf of lethal violence. Lots of things are possible. Not all of those possibilities constitute a threat that you can legitimately use violence to respond to.

Just what do you think the probability of a prison break from maximum-security lockdown is? Do you actually think that the risk that a convict in the slammer poses to you is greater than the threat posed to you by random strangers on the street?