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Who Gets to Hold the Gun? Three Models of State Force
Every state claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of force — but no state actually holds it absolutely. Police are a delegation. Private security guards are a delegation. A licensed civilian with a handgun is a delegation of the most direct kind. This episode examines three countries that have drawn that boundary in radically different places: Israel, where private gun ownership has expanded rapidly under a "distributed security" rationale driven by ideologically motivated far-right police administrators; the United States, where ownership is treated as a personal right that needs no…
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