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sudo wrote

You're conflating state with government. A state is defined as the parts of a government that are used to keep one class in power over another. If classes have disappeared, then you'd be left with a government, but no state.

The scenario I'm referring to is where classes have disappeared (and therefore so has the state), but mass shootings are still happening. I'm not sure that this scenario could actually happen, because I think part of the reason mass shootings occur is due to the material conditions of capitalism, but let's say for the moment that mass shootings are still happening, albeit less frequently. In this case, if the government decided to enact gun control measures, it wouldn't be a "state-ish" action, because it wouldn't be holding any one class in submission. It would just be to prevent shootings, mass or otherwise.

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