Spot on, Larken. There are plenty of powerful disincentives for murder outside of legislation. Like the fact that murdering people causes major psychological damage to the murderer. Or that you will be a target for defensive killing. Or that no one will like you anymore.

I do think that people who probably deserve to be murdered would prepare even more quickly and thoroughly for the new "lawlessness" than ordinary people would. Some of those folks have lots of money and resources at their disposal, so it would be interesting to see how that played out.

By the way, I didn't get to catch up with you at Anarchapulco, so just wanted to say that I enjoyed your talk, but especially loved your border debate with Lauren Southern, in which you kicked metaphorical ass. Keep up the good work!