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marssaxman on April 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is...

> the issue is that the state has to have a monopoly on violence

That is not the case in the USA, where the absence of such a monopoly is written into the federal constitution.

baursak on April 13, 2018 [–]

Are you talking about 2nd amendment? If so, that's not a grant to violence by any means. If you want to test if the state really has a monopoly on violence, try being violent, or simply disobedient with an officer of the state.

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