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"This is my new vision of doom: gun control will happen over decades through legal requirements for gun owners to hold more and more expensive insurance. The same thing will happen as driverless cars replace human drivers. In a hundred years, only rich people and servants of the control system will be allowed to shoot or drive or otherwise put anyone else at risk. In another hundred years, you won't even be permitted to put *yourself* at risk, and if you think that's silly, consider seat belt laws. Eventually all power and responsibility will be held by artificial intelligence and robots, and they will exterminate us -- not with bullets, but by making life so predictable that we lose the will to live." ~Ran Prieur