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The rich have been very effective at convincing the poor to use those guns against each other (and scientists) instead of the people responsible for their poverty.

It’s a cycle that is always interrupted by war or revolution. The wealthy in the US do not understand what a revolution is, they believe that laws written on paper are as unbreakable as the laws of physics. Laws only function when the vast majority of society agrees to abide by them. Once people have nothing left to lose, it will be too late.

good old 'panem et circensis' at work:

we're never had more effective 'circensis' (Tiktok, video-games, etc.)

the 'panem' part? yeah, that might be a problem, given (further) inflation

the gun laws are stricter in the States with more inequality

A trivial google shows thats wrong, it doesn’t look to be a strong correlation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...