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Michele's avatar

Jen, this is one of the reasons we can't get any sensible gun laws. The oligarchs want certain peons well armed while they sit back and watch the fight.

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Roxanna Springer's avatar

This is exactly what Isaiah Berlin writes about in his essays on Nationalism -- create the massive split between haves and have nots so that the have nots are made desperate and bitter, easily provoked to violence and extremist views begging for the dictators to 'save' them.

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Lori Allenbaugh's avatar

I imagine that once the peons do the dirty work and the oligarchs have control they will then take away the guns to avoid being on the wrong side of the barrels.

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Michele's avatar

I am not sure they have thought beyond power and money.

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