Actually my bigger worry kind of boils down to this. "whenver you put your faith in the state, sooner or later you become an apologist for mass murder".....Seriously. I don't care if it's a "democracy", a "republic", a kingdom, a dictatorship, communist, etc. They all share the same quality in that one small group of people is given a completely monopoly on the exercise of violence. They are "responsible" for exercising that monopoly for the good of the people *cough*, but are also responsible for turning that monopoly on violence against themselves if they do anything that isn't good for the people.Now, just a theoretical question here. If you have a structure that has a monopoly on violence and its deemed necessity, what the hell kind of people do you think are going to be attracted to "work" for this sort of enterprise? Peaceful people who just want to live and trade and get by (maybe get rich doing it if they are smart enough)? Or legalists who look for the opportunity to make people do what THEY think is right (regardless if anyone is being hurt in the process), or people who just like to have power over others, or people who are that nice blend of sadistic and sociopathic and just want to hurt the shit out of everyone else.All of these people can not only exercise these qualities about themselves without restraint. They can get fucking paid to to it! With money that is taken from peaceful, voluntary people at the point of a gun.........It's not criminals I'm worried about (I mean REAL criminals that want to damage someone's property or steal it, or hurt someone), it's the people who think they are right to lock someone in a cage or send hundreds of thousands of volts through their body or kidnap them from their family for not following their orders, or whatever bullshit some other people who want to impose their ideas happen to write down ona piece of paper. I own guns because if it comes down to it, I am way more scared of the state than any two-bit criminal. one bullet (maybe 2 or 3, depending on how many there are) is enough to stop a sadistic criminal.How many bullets does it take to stop a sadistic state?