Yes, he could - it is simply cheaper and easier for him to work within a legal framework that is already designed to benefit him at the expense of the people he wishes to exploit. To use your parlance - you gracefully ignore that part.

~~Without~~ With laws and ~~without~~ with police someone who is stronger than you and/or has more resources than you will just fuck you over as this is literally the current system we exist under right now.

Fixed that for you.

people by believing they would side by side storm Elon Musks factory, take his stuff

Yes. We would. That is why capitalists invented police.

give his community weapons and shoot everyone down who comes near his property.

You mean... literally the history of how the institution of police was invented?

“Great, now I can finally get that nice house I always wanted that my neighbour is living in.”

There won't be any police around to help him do exactly that, would there? He'll have to deal with the community first... who now has all the guns - as you envisioned.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you live in a country without police, btw? How about you move to one without and see how well it works out for you.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So far, you've offered nothing to justify the existence of police except canned liberalsm and worn-out media tropes based on pure copaganda.

Do you have anything else you wanna try running past me or will that be it?