Each a terrorist in the other's eyes... such a tired story of humanity.

If only we could all simply get up, grab some wine, and walk off in our underwear, the world would be a much more amicable place indeed.

Just a hand [grabbing tool] and simple shapes and tricks like zapping and such.
Know why?!
Fun fact time : 'cause her arms comes from last chapter.Remember these guys??
One never made it off the ship after getting destroyed by Jay, so presumably when Kate fixed Tara's arm, she did so with the spare parts of the damaged bot, still aboard.
And, since the bots were less sophisticated than Kate herself, Tara's limited to the same simple mechanics of her poor-man's glowy arm.

Don't worry for her too much though, because the answer to your first question is still most likely a yes.

Yup. Right to die, right to bear [increasingly dangerous] arms, right to do dangerous drugs, right to elect a tyrannical dictator. Tough to lay down and let people hurt themselves with their choices sometimes :P

That is actually the complete opposite of the point I was making. It's a little paradoxical, but bear with me: in order to have a stable and mostly free society, people HAVE to be reined in at least a little bit. Reference the whole "yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre" thing, or the apparently quite shocking notion that my right to bear arms does not outweigh your right not to die in a random hail of bullets because some asshole could pay cash for an M4 knockoff on a whim. If it WAS just them hurting themselves, that'd be one thing, but it isn't, because people don't live in a vacuum. Sometimes the greater good of the society does, to an extent, legitimately outweigh individual freedom.

For the second part of my comment, with Atropos they had an externally imposed police state* that (from observed evidence in the comic) didn't give the actual residents of the planet any say in how its business was conducted. So naturally, with no way to kick the bums out with a ballot, they try to kick them out with guns and IEDs.

* Not to mention, it was a for-profit police state, which is a whole 'nother can of worms: privatization of public services NEVER reduces costs and it leads to worse provision of services, because private companies are beholden to voting shareholders, not to the public. Of course, that was apparently not the motivation here; rather the corporation was just a stalking-horse to give the <i>actual</i> jackboot-wearing fascists an excuse to clamp down even harder.

"privatization of public services NEVER reduces costs and it leads to worse provision of services"

Except for the vast majority of times it's actually been tried in the real world, of course.

"private companies are beholden to voting shareholders, not to the public"

It's not the "beholden to private shareholders" part that's the problem, it's that the second part ("beholden to the public") is effectively not true.

Beholden to SOMEBODY is better than beholden to NOBODY.

It's a win-win-win when Alice gets mad, wherein we are all winners.

Not really fair, is it? Jay and Tara make all these quips and jabs and they are all just straight up out shone:P
Tsk tsk

Fair to whom? *grin*

I think we got the best deal, but as you say, Jay and Tara might disagree. Then again, eh...don't care. :D