tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-25:2614584 timelets timelets 2017-11-17T04:25:08Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-25:2614584:727684 2017-11-17T04:20:53Z 2017-11-17T04:25:08Z public 0 Let's forget about politics and consider the right to bear arms from a CT point of view. <br /><br />Basically, providing a person with a weapon, e.g. a rifle, is an arrow (Functor) that maps the person from one "set"* of killing capabilities to a greater "set" of killing capabilities. Also, there are arrows that map the person between states "unknown guy", "good guy", "bad guy." Once the person is mapped to "good guy", s/he is upgraded to a greater set of killing capabilities.<br /><br />The fundamental design flaw is that there's no arrow that un-equips a person when s/he intentionally changes state from "good guy" to "bad guy." Three most recent mass shootings exploit this bug in the system. <br /><br />* I use "set" here to denote a category that can be mapped to sets of killing characteristics, e.g. killing X people at Y distance per minute for Z minutes.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=timelets&ditemid=727684" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments