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I’m asking about your proposal - say we disarm the police. What’s stopping us from getting fascism again from whoever does have guns?

The same question applies to vigilante forces. I've seen a lot of vigilante videos from around the world and they are horrifying. My concern is when I hear "regular people self-organized to patrol a city" I see that turning into a mob that beats a suspected thief to death with baseball bats, or restraining them and setting them on fire, or dragging them through the streets by a rope tied around their neck as the neighborhood stones them to death. Any time people are given power, there is a danger of fascist behavior.

So if we replace the police with a neighborhood watch, what's to stop fascism there?